Subscriptions for vegan staples (oat milk, vegan cheese, protein, meal kits), which platform?
Three I’ve shipped multiple times with Magento + Hyvä:
- ReCharge, the most common, deepest integration. Native Magento extension. Best for brands at $500k+ GMV with multi-SKU subscriptions. ~$99, $499/mo + 1.25% of subscription revenue. Best-in-class customer portal (skip / swap / pause / change cadence / change SKU / build-a-box).
- Bold Subscriptions, flexible, cheaper at scale. Magento connector via Bold APIs. Good for brands that want custom subscription logic (e.g. dynamic-cadence based on usage). ~$49, $199/mo flat.
- Skio, the upstart, sticker price is steep but conversion is best-in-class for sub-on-PDP UX. Magento integration is API-based, custom-built. Best for brands prioritising the sub-checkout funnel.
Vegan-specific sub patterns:
- Oat milk / dairy alt, weekly or bi-weekly, predict usage from household size.
- Vegan cheese, bi-weekly variety pack (build-a-box rotates SKUs).
- Plant protein, monthly, larger pouches, auto-replenishment 3 days before charge.
- Meal kits, weekly with skip-this-week + swap-recipes, like HelloFresh.
Subscription churn is the metric. For vegan staples, <5% monthly churn is excellent, 5-8% is normal, >10% means your sub UX or product fit is broken. Magento + Hyvä lets you instrument churn-by-SKU + churn-by-cadence cleanly so you can fix the leaks.