Title: Custom Start Date
Last modified: June 29, 2018

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# Custom Start Date

 *  Resolved [Richard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rgenck/)
 * (@rgenck)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-start-date/)
 * Really need to have a “Custom Start Date” for subscriptions. This could be to
   allow classes to start at the same time, or subscriptions to other products to
   start at a specific future date, but it really needs to happen.

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 *  Plugin Support [Ryan Ray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanr14/)
 * (@ryanr14)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-start-date/#post-10449835)
 * [@rgenck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rgenck/),
 * Just out of curiosity would some sort of bookings option make more sense for 
   this? If not, I’d be curious to hear more about how your product and classes 
   work. I just wanted to be sure to understand the setup and need exactly. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Richard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rgenck/)
 * (@rgenck)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-start-date/#post-10449851)
 * I don’t think bookings would work, I have two private schools that would like
   to take applications and then allow students to register over the summer.
 * Once a student registers for a class over the summer the schools would like the
   student to be charged for the first month, and then be able to set the next payment
   date at the creation of the product, rather than needing to manually edit every
   single subscription for every single student.
 * Another option would be to make the first payment not come out until the specified
   start date.
 * We just need the customer to not be charge a monthly subscription for a class
   months before it even starts, does that make sense?
 *  Plugin Support [Ryan Ray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanr14/)
 * (@ryanr14)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-start-date/#post-10453194)
 * Hi [@rgenck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rgenck/),
 * It sounds like it’d be a perfect case for Pre-Orders and Subscriptions to work
   together. Unfortunately, our two extensions for each of those don’t at the time.
 * This isn’t possible out of the box with our Subscriptions extension, but there
   may be some groundwork already there where you can customize the extension to
   set a specific start date, otherwise, a manual next payment date is possible 
   to set once a subscription is started.
 *  Thread Starter [Richard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rgenck/)
 * (@rgenck)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-start-date/#post-10457010)
 * So there is no way that this functionality will be built into WooCommerce extensions
   any time soon?
 *  [Kenin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kbassart/)
 * (@kbassart)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-start-date/#post-10462371)
 * Subscriptions does have the option of having a “Synchronized Renewal” which could
   let you pick one specific start date for the recurring payments depending on 
   your different payment intervals. You can also collect a Start Up fee at the 
   time of transaction if you need to secure an initial deposit or other fee.
 * You can learn more about setting that up here: [https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/renewal-synchronisation/](https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/renewal-synchronisation/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Julia Amosova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamosova/)
 * (@jamosova)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-start-date/#post-10487582)
 * Hi [@rgenck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rgenck/),
 * Looks like you are all set for now so I am going to mark this thread as `Resolved`.
   Feel free to connect with us again should you have any additional questions!

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 * [start date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/start-date/)
 * [subscription](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subscription/)

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 * Last reply from: [Julia Amosova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamosova/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-start-date/#post-10487582)
 * Status: resolved