Custom Start Date for WooCommerce Subscriptions

Description

Empower Your WooCommerce Subscriptions With Custom Start Dates

Introducing the Custom Start Date for WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin—an indispensable solution for WordPress users wishing to improve their subscription propositions. Custom start dates for subscriptions provide unmatched flexibility because you and your customers can now select specific start dates for subscriptions.

Why Choose Custom Start Date For WooCommerce Subscriptions?

Due to the nature of eCommerce, it is very important to be able to capture different customer requirements. With this plugin, you can:

• Pre-determine Subscription Start Dates: Subscribers can set a specified date for when the subscription will begin. This enables advance payments while ensuring the service is rendered at the most convenient time.
• Set Fixed Delay Periods: Define a gap—whether days, weeks, or months—after the initial payment and before the subscription is actually activated.
• Customer Self-managed Start Dates: Customers may now set the preferred date for the subscriptions to start, thereby improving satisfaction and engagement levels.

Key Features

• Adaptable To Different Business Models: The blanket approach of setting a starting date can be modified to suit individual needs.
• No Need To Restrict Early Registrations: Cut-off dates are configurable, so users will no longer have to restrict registrations or leads.

With WooCommerce Subscriptions, everything works together without any hiccups, delivering a stellar experience to users.

Perfect For

• Educational Institutions: Add flexibility by allowing customers to start subscriptions on specific academic terms, thus simplifying the enrollment procedures.
• Gift Subscriptions: Customers can buy subscriptions as gifts at an earlier date with the option of setting the subscription’s start date on particular dates.
• Products or Services with Seasonality: Allow people to buy subscriptions that will get activated during the relevant season months for marketing seasonal products throughout the year.

How This Works

• Configuration: Customers set their own preferred service start date during checkout. Alternatively, merchants can define the start dates in the product options.
• Checkout Process: The subscription will activate on the set start date, with customers unable to use subscriber functions until activation. Initial status of the subscription is set to “Scheduled” until the defined date.
• Activation and Renewal: The subscription activates automatically at the start date, along with payments after the initial activation. Subsequent payments will also be automated.

What Makes GPL Bees the Go-To Place for Bees Services?

At GPL Bees, we strive to help small businesses, entrepreneurs, and web designers flourish by providing highly competitively priced WordPress plugins, themes, and template kits. Our entire catalog is marked with GPL, which allows use across unlimited domains with all features enabled. We offer some support in product installation. However, if the need is specific, it can be procured from the original author. You can rest assured that we follow all DMCA regulations.

Common Queries

Q1: What changes from the purchase date to the date the subscription begins?

A1: The subscription will be in a ‘Scheduled’ status, where access to subscriber-only products or services will not be allowed until the subscription is activated on the date selected.

Q2: Is initial payment due at the beginning of service or can it be paid later?

A2: Initial payment and any necessary shipping fees may be charged at the time of getting the subscription or at a later date. Any sign-up fees will be applied during the checkout process.

Q3: Can the customer buy more than one subscription per order with varying start dates?

A3: Yes, they can. The plugin classifies subscriptions into groups based on when they were created and how the billing cycle is organized. Every product with a different start date is treated as a separate subscription. However, these can all be bought together in one order.

Q4: Is it permitted to change the start date of the subscription after it has been purchased?

A4: Yes, as long as the subscription has been set up but is not activated, the start date can be changed. When a subscription is in a ‘Scheduled’ state, store administrators or shop managers can also modify the start date. All related dates like next payment or expiration will be adjusted automatically to fit the new set start date.

Q5: Can you tell me if the plugin works with every type of subscription?

A5: As of now, this plugin works with simple and variable subscriptions created using the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin. Further support is anticipated in subsequent versions of the plugin, but more types of subscriptions are planned for compatibility down the line.

Q6: What is the solution to the Error, “Invalid plugins or invalid themes found” when attempting to install a plugin?

A6: This is a common error message that occurs when the plugin/theme being downloaded is a combination of multiple plugins or themes. When you download such files, extract the .zip file to get to the individual documents. Then upload the extracted files separately for installation.

Q7: What can I do in the case when I receive the “style.css not found” error?

A7: This error means the plugin file is uploaded in the theme section of the installation. Make sure that the upload is done as: “Plugins” > “Add New” > “Upload Plugin”.

Q8: How should I deal with “PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT” error?

A8: This error indicates that the file uploaded has more than one plugin or theme. Open the downloaded zip file to obtain separate files, then upload and install each one of them one by one.

Q9: What is the proper process to add a new plugin or theme in the software, or to upgrade an existing one?

A9: Steps to follow to install or upgrade a theme or a plugin:

• For Themes: Go to “Appearance” then to “Themes”, select “Add New”, “Upload Theme”, and choose the zipped folder of the theme.
• For Plugins: Click on “Plugins” then “Add New”, select “Upload Plugin”, and then select the ZIP folder of the Plugin created.

Empower your WooCommerce store with Custom Start Date for WooCommerce Subscriptions from GPL Bees, so your customers can have the flexibility they need.