Doubt about Recurring Payments
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I’ve read this on a GIST:
“You generally do not want to setup PMPro levels with both a recurring billing amount AND an expiration date. This SQL query will clear the expiration date for active recurring memberships.”
Why not?
Maybe this is causing my issues here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/expiration-problem/
Since I’ve recurring bills (per year) with this checked: “Membership Expiration: Check this to set when membership access expires.” (with 1 year duration)
And it says too “Set the duration of membership access. Note that the any future payments (recurring subscription, if any) will be cancelled when the membership expires.”
That means that if an user paid and has a subscription of 1 year, and when near the end date if the user renews, the membership will still cancel?! Is that it?
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Hi there again, I’m still having issues with this.
After fixing all the previous issues, a new one rised. So now, the subscription seems to be working via IPN, I’ve remove the expiration date from the level so it would not remove the user even if it was automatic renew by paypal, so now it appears Never on the end date as it should I beleive for a subscription.
BUT the problem now is that if the user select to not be automatically subscribed, their end date still appear as Never when it should appear 1 year. So how can I add that 1 year if the user selected to not be automatically subscribed?For what I checked on the code, if the user already had a subscription and I renew with a normal payment, it handles it. Or if I’ve a normal payment and renew with a subscription, it handles it too. But if its an new user, it doesnt handle it. it should have a option to add an enddate for normal payment for a new user.
I can say that I’m using “Auto-Renewal Checkbox at Membership Checkout” and if the user choose to not go with subscription by removing the checkbox, he is moved to the correct group, BUT there is no update on the end date!
And ofc, if I wanted to have only subscription I needed to remove the end date from the level
And if I wanted only to have normal mode I would needed to add an end date to the level so it will be just 1 year (in my case)BUT if I’ve that plugin so the user can select between both what should I do?
Do I need to select an End date?
And if I select what will happen if an user subscribed?
Will the end date will apply to him to?Right now my level doesn’t have an end date, and I beleive this plugin should add that end date in case the user selects to not subscribe.
Edit: I gave the wrong advice early. It actually won’t even show the auto renew setting on the edit level page unless you check the recurring option.
If you are using the auto renewal checkbox add on, make sure you have the latest version.
Then setup the level with an expiration date, but don’t check recurring.The autorenewal checkbox add on basically swaps the expiration for a recurring membership if the user checks that box at checkout.
Setup the level with a recurring fee. Leave the expiration unchecked. Set the level to show the auto renewal checkbox.
The autorenewal checkbox add on basically swaps the billing period for the end date.
If that matches your setup and you’re members are getting an end date when they checkout, then there must be some other conflict. We would need to access your site to look around and see what that might be. That’s the kind of support we do through our paid member support.
Sorry for the confusion. I think we could do better to guide users in setup when that add on is active.
This code seems to be the culprit:
if(!$autorenew) { //setup expiration $level->expiration_number = $level->cycle_number; $level->expiration_period = $level->cycle_period; //remove recurring billing $level->billing_amount = 0; $level->cycle_number = 0; }So if there is no autorenew it will setup an expiration? That doesnt make sense.
It should be
if($autorenew == 0)since that would mean, if the user selected to have recurring subscription on the checkbox of autorenew then do the setup expiration or am I missing something?Maybe it should be: if(!$autorenew || $autorenew == 0)
Dunno for sure why the !$autorenew but maybe it works when we’ve the option “Yes. Default to unchecked.” selected at admin panel, and if the user don’t do nothing and dont check the box then maybe the autorenew will be different then 0 and 1. And maybe it works like that, but if the user check and uncheck again the variable seems to be changed to 0 and therefore this if would stop working. But maybe Im debuging it wrong…
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