Title: Recurring Payment Bug Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # Recurring Payment Bug * Resolved [jackfelix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackfelix/) * (@jackfelix) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-bug-1/) * Subscription Payment for courses: I enter an initial amount of X and then choose monthly recurring with amount X, frequency 1, billing cycles 3. * Result: The course overview item states “X for 3 months” * Expected Result: The course item states “X for 4 months” (1 initial X + 3 following X) * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/lifterlms/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lifterlms/) Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [Thomas Patrick Levy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/) * (@thomasplevy) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-bug-1/#post-7186516) * Hey Jackie, * To achieve your expected result simply exclude the initial payment and set your cycles to 4 rather than three. * The initial payment field is only necessary when your initial payment is a different price than the remaining payments. If, for example, you wanted to have 4.99 the first month and 14.99 the remaining months you could use the initial payment field. * Hope that get’s you functional, let me know if it doesn’t. * Take care, * Thread Starter [jackfelix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackfelix/) * (@jackfelix) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-bug-1/#post-7186606) * Hey Thomas, * If I understand correctly, the user gets a trial period if I don’t set a initial payment. * So if I do “monthly”, “frequency 1” and “amount 4”, then the user pays his first invoice 1 month after signing up for the course. * I don’t want this “trial” period, therefore I set an initial payment. * And as state above, if initial payment equals monthly payment then the amount of payments total is wrong (n-1). E.g. I set initial payment to 200 and then 3 monthly payments of 200 the resulting payment is: 200 + 200 + 200 Instead of 200 + 200 +200 + 200 * When I set the initial payment to 201 then the payments are “fine”: Resulting Payments for initial 201 and then every month for 3 months 200: 201 + 200 + 200 + 200 * [Thomas Patrick Levy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/) * (@thomasplevy) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-bug-1/#post-7186709) * Hey There jackfelix, * I see what you’re saying now. I apologize for my initial density. * While this is a bug, in that it doesn’t work as expected, it is not something that I can see us addressing anytime soon as this is behavior that, if we changed, would cause issues for any users running existing recurring payment plans. I’ve made a note of the issue on our backlog but I can tell you with certainty that this will *not* be addressed until a major release (version 3.0) which is not currently on our roadmap. * However, you can simply work around what you expect and simply add or subtract a month when you create your courses. The user will not ever experience a payment plan at the wrong length as long as you can stand the expectation feeling wrong to you. * Thanks for the note and let me know if there’s anything else we can help with. * Take care, * [Thomas Patrick Levy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/) * (@thomasplevy) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-bug-1/#post-7186785) * [@jackfelix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackfelix/), * As I haven’t heard from you in over a week I’m going to consider this resolved even though the proposed resolution is, in a way, a workaround. Again I don’t believe this is something we can safely change without causing issues for our existing users. * Please let us know if you require any further assistance and thanks for your support! Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Recurring Payment Bug’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/lifterlms/assets/icon.svg?rev=2034507) * [LifterLMS - WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lifterlms/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lifterlms/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lifterlms/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lifterlms/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lifterlms/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lifterlms/reviews/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Thomas Patrick Levy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/) * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-bug-1/#post-7186785) * Status: resolved