Title: Pause Subscriptions
Last modified: October 17, 2024

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# Pause Subscriptions

 *  Resolved [kayleighthorpe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kayleighthorpe/)
 * (@kayleighthorpe)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pause-subscriptions-2/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m going to be away next month and I don’t know what the best way is to go about
   pausing my member’s subscriptions.
 * If I change the renewal dates for my members, will it also be picked up on Paypal’s
   side? What is the best way to make members essentially skip being billed for 
   a month?
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Support [alexandrubodea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexandrubodea/)
 * (@alexandrubodea)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pause-subscriptions-2/#post-18085745)
 * Hi [@kayleighthorpe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kayleighthorpe/),
 * Unfortunately, automatically doing this is not currently possible, but this is
   an already tracked feature and I’ve also added your request to our development
   list, so it might be implemented in a future version, but we can’t estimate when
   that may be.
 * Now, If your subscription plans are automatically recurring subscription plans
   purchased through PayPal, then there might be a workaround for what you’re trying
   to achieve, but it will be a manual one.
 * First, you need to go to your site’s Dashboard -> Paid Member Subscriptions -
   > Members page, hover your mouse cursor over the member (on which you want to
   apply these modifications), and click on the Edit Member link, once you are on
   the Edit Member page click on the “Edit” button that’s next to the subscription.
   You should now see the Subscription Logs page of that member (that page should
   look like [this](https://www.cozmoslabs.com/docs/paid-member-subscriptions/member-management/#Subscription_Logs)).
   From this page, at the bottom of the page copy the ID related to “Payment Gateway
   Subscription ID”.
 * Now log into your PayPal account and go to this page: [https://www.paypal.com/billing/subscriptions](https://www.paypal.com/billing/subscriptions)(
   where you will find all the PayPal subscriptions that you have). On this page,
   you will need to search for the ID copied from your site, after you find the 
   user’s subscription, you can click on the “3 vertical dots” (the setting functionality),
   from where you will have the option to “Pause Subscription”.
 * Now on your site, again from the Subscription Logs page, you can leave the subscription
   Active in this time period if you wish your users to still have access to what
   that plan offers from your site or you can set it as Expired so that they lose
   access.
 * After you activate back (unpause) your PayPal subscription, you will need to 
   make the appropriate changes to the Subscription Status from your site (again
   from the Subscription Logs page of that user) and still from there, you will 
   need to modify the Expiration date so that it’s a new one which coincides with
   the new Next Payment date, from the PayPal Subscription (which should appear 
   in the PayPal subscription page after you activate back that particular subscription).
 * The above steps will need to be done for each user you wish to apply these changes
   to.
 * Regards,

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 * Last activity: [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pause-subscriptions-2/#post-18085745)
 * Status: resolved