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: August 10, 2013
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is this getting added or what?
This is exactly what we need. Customers buy a subscription committing them to 3 months, we take the money upfront but want to ship three times on the first of each month. Then when it renews this begins again.
EXACTLY!!! How has this not been added yet??? This thread is from 2013. Insane. Almost all Subscription companies would use this
This would be amazing! Trying to realise a discount on a yearly subscription with an upfront payment but monthly shipping… this one feature would simplify things so much!
We too could use this feature.
For customers who pay annually for a monthly subscription product, it would be ideal if a monthly order could be auto-generated with a special status such as ‘prepaid’.
Right now the orders are sent to ShipStation for fulfillment, but there’s not a means of generating the monthly shipping labels for those customer who pay annually.
We too could use this feature.
For customers who pay annually for a monthly subscription product, it would be ideal if a monthly order could be auto-generated with a special status such as ‘prepaid’.
Right now the orders are sent to ShipStation for fulfillment, but there’s not a means of generating the monthly shipping labels for those customer who pay annually.
We would love to have this option with the flexibility of picking your own shipment schedule from a one time upfront payment.
We not only need this option but also the ability to bill on a fixed day of the week and “ship” on a separate fixed day of the week. (We are a meal subscription program and have folks order a week in advance for deliveries the following week)
Yes, we need this option.
That would be fine as an option. If it could also work during the trial period it would be great. The billing and delivery options should be separated and the deliveries for a given period to be exported.
We need this option
Someone mentioned that they are temporarily renewing subscriptions at zero? How is this done? Do you just renew the subscription with the same official renewal date? For now I use spreadsheets and upload the customer orders to shipping software but that is a huge pain and would love easier ideas until the developers bring this feature.
Yes, we need this option.
I need this bad. I operate a weekly home service and bill my customers monthly. I need to have a weekly service order generated for all active subscribers.
Yes please, trying to manage 3500 subscribers without this is a pain.
Yes yes yes yes yes +10000000000 please please please, Im currenty trying to use Flycarts pre-paid plugin but it really doesn’t work very well but its my only option.
yes please
please make sure when you do implement you give an option for pending-cancelation to continue shipments until subscription expiration. A lot of customer will purchase a pre-paid subscription then cancel right away just so they only get the pre-paid amount and doe not renew. But still need to get their recurring shipments for what they paid for.
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totally agree! We have that problem at the moment! We have to cheat by adding a sign up fee and then charging them a recurring fee from the second month onwards, but the problem is that you can’t charge for shipping fee at the sing up stage.
Super annoying! Can’t wait for them to fix this problem!
Came across a plugin called Schedule delivery for WooCommerce by Themehigh where user can plan the product delivery.
Helpful for shop owners who have regular customers who can plan their purchase.
Hi
The problem can be solved better by separating the billing cycle from shipping cycle. Because most subscription businesses would charge annually, while shipping the products on a monthly basis.
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). Even you can let the customer to choose a delivery cycle.
The plugin is almost complete.
If you have any feedback or feature suggestions, do let me know. We are planning to submit this to the WooCommerce extensions section soon.
this would be extremely useful
yes！！！ 1 year or 6 months
This function would be perfect for gift subscriptions. People prefer to pay for a gift once and not every month but they will want it to ship to the recipient every month.
Please add this feature ASAP as it will make selling gifts (a big feature of our business) so much easier for everyone.