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Add grace period feature for renewals to prevent subscriptions from becoming inactive due to PayPal/Stripe ACH payment processing delays

It would be nice to see a grace period feature for renewals to prevent subscriptions from becoming inactive due to PayPal/Stripe ACH payment processing delays.

What happens is the subscription auto-renews but the payment takes 3 days or more to process due to processing delays. The customer never knows about it and it causes unpleasant problems for them when my system automatically deactivates their service by taking the subscription status at face value.

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Last updated: May 19, 2026

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  1. iliadiol says:

    Hi there,

    Thank you for your suggestion!

    We noticed that there is a similar request about this, which currently has more votes: https://woocommerce.com/feature-request/make-subscriptions-fully-compatible-with-sepa/. To better prioritize requests, we aim to keep 1 request open per feature. That’s why I will close this one. I encourage you to upvote the above request instead.

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