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When your WooCommerce Subscriptions deployment causes performance regressions (e.g., slow checkouts, late renewals, or webhook failures), your rollback and communications plan should emphasize speedy containment and outward clarity. On the rollback side, be sure you are completely backing up both your WordPress database and /wp-content/plugins/ directory before going live (those processes will save time if you need to revert to the prior plugin version using WP-CLI or your host’s snapshot tool). And keep a staging site to validate the rollback before you go live — especially since subscription data (renewal schedules, payment tokens, etc.) is sensitive and time-based.
If regressions start popping up (e.g., a spike in PHP memory use or checkout timeouts), pause automatic renewals using WooCommerce > Status > Scheduled Actions, disable the new Subscriptions version, and restore the prior build. If you have rolled back the Subscriptions plugin, perform a quick database integrity check to verify that renewal.
For communications, your approach should be proactive and provide reassurance: send a short message to your internal stakeholders, as well as affected merchants or customers: We have identified slower subscription renewals after the latest WooCommerce Subscriptions update. We are rolling back to the earlier version in order to ensure payments would occur and that we return to a stable state. Update your status page, as well as support chat macros, to allow your team to provide consistent updates. After we get the system back to a stable state, disperse a summary after the incident occurred - what happened, what was learned, and what validation testing you will need to add (renewal load testing and regression testing in the staging environment, etc.) before the next rollout takes place. The aim here is to provide a sense of control, and not a sense of chaos - you have a problem and you are owning the issue to protect customer confidence.
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