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Delay Start of Subscription

I wondered if there was a way to offer an option to delay the start of a subscription? I want to market my subscription as a present, which means the subscription should be available from the time the present is given not from when it is purchased.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I need to be able to start a new subriptions for customers and choose a start date. The date is not alike for every customer...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There is a plugin that solves this issue: First payment date for WooCommerce Subscriptions.

    That this feature hasn't been added in 6 years tells you all you need to know about this plugin.

  • Aaron commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This functionality would be so helpful for schools setting up tuition payments where students register ahead of time, but payments don't need to start until school begins.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I prefer my subscriptions be Jan 1 - Dec 31 but send invoices in October. I would prefer to have this clear to my clients as they sign up, rather than counting on them to understand it by reading my descriptions.

  • Shemzone commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Indeed, it would be very useful and needed ASAP. I am in the case of a syndicate of professionnals who need to subscribe at anytime for an annual subscription starting from the 1st january and ending the 31st december. I chosen WC Subscriptions because of its automatic renewal feature. At this time, I have to find a workaround by coding it. Not very productive for a paid plugin...

  • FlyingFish.ie commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This functionality would be extremely useful, we currently allow customers to sign up for annual magazine subscriptions that automatically renew - but sometimes customers do not want to start the annual plan right away, for example if they already have that month's magazine and don't want to start until the next one is out.

    We take payment up front, but we do not want to activate the subscription until the month chosen by the customer. Please look into adding this functionality as we are currently doing everything manually, but will have to look at alternatives in the future if our subscription base continues to grow.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    please add the delay subscriptions feature, I think that is the most needed feature.

    best,

    leo

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We are looking into solutions for our client who would like users to set up subscriptions on a specific date of their choosing with a price amount they can set for annual donations.

    An improvement to the woocommerce plugin would be to allow users to select a start date for their subscription so they are billed annually with the date they have selected.

    This feature should also allow users to control their subscriptions from an account area. Allowing them to change the date or cancel their repeated subscription.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I totally agree! We are using this to offer a CSA farm subscription. The subscription dates are fixed based upon the growing season, but I do marketing well in advance in order to fill the subscription and ensure I grow enough vegetables or don't grow too many. I want the billing to sync up with the weeks or months that the subscribers will pick up their product. Simply having a field to enter "subscription start date" and to would be a godsend! Currently, like others have listed here, I use the free trial option to sync up the start date, but that displays a "free trial" on the product and confuses shoppers. I'm not actually giving away free weeks of the CSA but just delaying their billing. I think this would be relatively easy to add and would offer great flexibility to people like me.

  • Mike Frates commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    A "Start Date" for subscriptions is highly needed. There's an expiration, why not a start? For example, I'm starting a subscription business and gathering users through a promotion period. Having a start date for the subscription to take effect benefits all early adopters, since cards, billing, and shipping details are already stored and the subscription automatically takes effect at a specified date. Using a free trial period doesn't work, because we can't capture the credit card information at the time of purchase since it's $0.

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