Konfiguracja wszystkich subskrypcji dostępu do treści cyfrowych

This guide explains how to connect your subscription app with Sky Pilot to deliver digital content automatically. Depending on how you want to structure your content access, you can choose between two models: the Regular Subscription Model (All-Access) or the Magazine-Style Subscription Model (Cycle-Based).

Important:

• Subscription integration requires the Sky Pilot Growth plan or higher. It is not available on the Free plan.
• Sky Pilot is strictly a product-based delivery app—it does not possess built-in subscription timing, time-based logic, or automated content-rotation features.

Choose Your Subscription Model

Before configuring your apps, choose the structure that matches your business logic:

Model A: Regular Subscription (All-Access)

• How it works: Customers pay a recurring fee to access a shared library of content. When they subscribe, they get access to everything. If they cancel, their access to the entire library is revoked.

• How Sky Pilot tracks this: Via Customer Tags. The subscription app applies a tag (e.g., active_subscriber) to the customer profile upon payment and removes it if they cancel.

Model B: Magazine-Style Subscription (Cycle-Based)

• How it works: Customers receive a brand-new, distinct piece of content each month (e.g., March Edition, April Edition). They keep lifetime access to the specific editions they paid for, even if they cancel later. However, if they pause or cancel, they do not receive future editions.

• Important Constraint: Sky Pilot cannot automatically change or swap files inside a single product each month, nor can it conditionally hide past files based on when a customer joined. If multiple monthly files are uploaded under a single Shopify product, every subscriber will see all files.

• How Sky Pilot tracks this: Via Order History. Because of Sky Pilot's product-based boundaries, your subscription app (e.g., Loop) must handle the product-swap and rotation logic at the billing layer, changing the actual Shopify product on the user's contract every month. Access is then tied entirely to owning those specific monthly products.

Step-by-Step Setup

1. Install Required Apps

• Install your preferred Shopify subscription app (ensure it explicitly supports automated monthly product swapping or cycle workflows).

• Install Sky Pilot and ensure your account is upgraded to the Growth Plan.

• Enable the subscription widget on your Shopify product pages.

2. Configure Your Shopify Products & Subscription Plans

Follow the instructions below based on your chosen model:

For Model A: Regular Subscriptions (Tag-Based)

• Create one product in Shopify to represent your subscription (e.g., "Digital Library Membership").
• In your subscription app, create a subscription plan and attach it to this product.
• In your subscription app settings, configure a unique Customer Tag to be assigned to this plan (e.g., library_active).

For Model B: Magazine-Style Subscriptions (Product-Based Swap)

• Create separate, unique Shopify products for every single monthly or cycle-based edition (e.g., Magazine - January 2026, Magazine - February 2026). Do not put multiple months under one product, or March subscribers will naturally gain access to January and February files.
• Configure your Subscription App's Rotation Logic: You must set up a "Product Swap" workflow inside your subscription app. Configure it to automatically swap the active product on the customer's subscription contract to the next upcoming product after every successful billing cycle. Sky Pilot will simply deliver the files attached to whatever product the subscription app orders.
• Do not configure customer tags in your subscription app; they are completely unnecessary for this model.

3. Link the Logic Inside Sky Pilot

For Model A: Regular Subscriptions (Tag-Based)

• In Sky Pilot, navigate to Settings > Tags, Subscriptions, and Watermarking.

• Click Add Subscription Tag and input the exact customer tag generated by your subscription app (e.g., library_active).

• Navigate to Products in Sky Pilot, open your subscription product, and attach all the digital files you want your subscribers to access.

Sky Pilot Workflow: Customer Tag > Grants access to Subscription Product > Delivers all attached files.

For Model B: Magazine-Style Subscriptions (Product-Based Swap)

• Leave the Sky Pilot Tag settings empty; no tags are required.

• Navigate to Products in Sky Pilot.

• Open each distinct monthly product and attach only the specific digital file meant for that month (e.g., attach the January PDF only to the January product).

Sky Pilot Workflow: Subscription App Bills Customer > Subscription App Swaps Product > Shopify Generates Order for New Monthly Product > Sky Pilot Delivers Files Attached to That Specific Product.

 

4. Test the Setup

Run a test purchase through your storefront using a test payment gateway to confirm the system performs as expected:

• For Regular Subscriptions: Ensure the test customer profile receives the active tag in Shopify and can see the full digital library. Cancel the subscription and verify that the tag is removed and file access is restricted.

• For Magazine Subscriptions: Verify that the initial checkout order creates a line item for the current month's product, granting access only to that specific file. Simulate a subscription renewal and ensure your subscription app successfully swaps the product to generate an order for the next month's edition.

Architecture Summary

Recommendation

If you are implementing a magazine-style model, you must ensure your chosen subscription app explicitly supports product rotation or bundle-cycle workflows. Sky Pilot handles file delivery flawlessly, but the restriction of month-by-month content entirely relies on your subscription app feeding Sky Pilot the correct Shopify product orders.