It is very common for companies to allow a customer to pay up front for a subscription and still receive the product monthly. It would be great to have this option in the subscription plug-in. Payment settings and how often the product ships should be separate settings.
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Last updated: October 14, 2025
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7 years for this idea and nothing happened? :O
What is exactly the problem here? You guys mentoined in a lot of docs that this is a “very popular” feature request but after 7 years still no proper solution. Why?
I have this issue now and I am unable to do a project on WordPress due to this lack of functionality. It’s a must have feature for subscriptions. You are losing out a several hundreds of dollars from me alone.
This can be accomplished using AutomateWoo
Is there any chance of this happening? Is there anything with more votes not developed? If not why is this not your top priority?
I need it too. Thanks
This is essential to this product!!!!!! Please, when will this be ready?
Is there any way to split the recurrent subcription in 2, and therefore charge every month while delivering product each 2 months?
Please add this feature, just had to use AutomateWoo to create a hacky workaround
In case you are looking to solve your problem with Subscriptions, you can take a look at the new plugin – Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions.
It would help you ship products on a different schedule to the recurring payments. And it’s on the official Woo marketplace:
https://woocommerce.com/products/prepaid-for-woocommerce-subscriptions
‘Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions just got an update, so now you can not only offer additional prepaid options but separate the shipping cycle from billing as well. There are two methods of selling prepaid plans:
– Offer prepaid options in addition to regular subscriptions. E.g., pay for one or two years and get a monthly delivery or pay every month as usual.
– Offer ONLY prepaid options and ship on a different schedule. E.g., pay upfront for three or six months and get weekly shipping without the option to pay every week.
Check it out:
https://woocommerce.com/products/prepaid-for-woocommerce-subscriptions
Here is a tutorial that shows how to set up a subscription that ships on a different schedule: https://youtu.be/AYistm0IB8c.
The tutorial goes over how to bill for a subscription product yearly ($120/year) but still ship monthly. This logic can be applied on a bunch of different scenarios.
Disclaimer: I am the one who created the tutorial 🙂
yes, this would be amazing to be able to have separate shipping and billing cycles.
Can you please supply an update on this from July last year?
“So we are working on a “Custom Delivery Schedule plugin for WooCommerce subscriptions”. The plugin can help you separate the billing & shipping cycles. So your subscription product price can be set to charge every year (or any other cycle), while the delivery can be monthly (or any other cycle).”
https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/
what am i missing?
I could really do with this, I just want my customers to have the option to pay in full or by installments, so this would work a treat, but I’m finding it hard to set up the simple and variable subscriptions at the same time….
I’m currently setting up a woocommerce website for a paper magazine with 2 subscription options delivered quaterly: 6 magazines (18 months) or 12 magazines (3 years) subscriptions.
Reading the different comments here and the documentation, I understand that will be quite difficult to set up.
Could you suggest a way to set up this?
almost a year now and still this standard option is unavailable. Does anyone have any other Subscriptions solutions as we are now losing money due to using the sign-up fee option and need to move away from this basic plugin. The automate woo option doesn’t work with variable subscription products.
I need this to manage a quarterly magazine.
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Would love to see this, please WooCommerce, make this happen!
Agree
I have a product i wish to ship quarterly on set months April, July, Oct, Jan but a customer may sign up in March leading to their next payment being June with the shipping in July. It would be great to synchronise these so if a customer signs up midway it automatically takes to payment to the shipping month next scheduled.
My client offers a monthly subscription, but allows add-ons that affect a weekly delivery schedule.
How has this not been added yet??? This thread is from 2013. Insane. Almost all Subscription companies would use this