WooCommerce: Memberships or Subscriptions

I'm doing some volunteer work for a charity. They have a WooCommerce shop that sells physical items like books and mugs. They want to have three tiers of membership managed with recurring annual payments, again to access physical benefits. So this isn't about restricted content on the site, this is literally join us and you'll get an item in the post and an invite to a visit to the charity's centre.

I've used WooCommerce subscriptions before but for a site that needed controlled access to pages which does not apply here.

So my question is if you've used both, which one do I need to make this work? Given we don't have any cash, we're doing this as a fundraiser, and we don't even know if anyone will join – and so I am paying in the meantime – this is a one or the other situation, not both.

Thanks!

 

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