Recurring Memberships

@dimitris

Thank you for your reply although I’d be grateful if you could clarify (note: if it makes any difference, this is a recurring membership I am trying to create)…

1. Am I right in understanding that MS_PAYMENT_DELAY sets the number of days BEFORE the expiry date that an invoice will be generated? ie. let’s say I set it to 5, then the invoice would be created 10 days (instead of the default of 5) prior to the expiry date?

2. Is the default MS_PAYMENT_DELAY always 5 days or does it vary depending on duration of the membership eg. 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year etc? And if so, what are the different default figures? (This would be useful to know so that I can test the system generally.)

3. I’m sure I read somewhere that it was possible to set a “grace period” which would give members a chance to pay the invoice within, say, 10 days AFTER the expiry date without having to “re-start” their membership. Is this correct/possible?

4. In testing, I manually added an existing member to a monthly membership and set their status to “Pending next payment”. An invoice was created (as I would expect) but although it was dated today (30th July), the “due date” is showing as 29th August (ie. one month from now). Surely this is incorrect and the due date for a new membership should be the same date as the day the invoice is created?

Note: if I sign up as a new user and select the same membership, the invoice and due date are both 30th July which is what I would expect so don’t understand why this isn’t happening when I’m adding someone manually. (I have a lot of existing users who I’m going to have to add to this new membership manually so it’s important to get this right.)

With many thanks again
Nik

Hi Oguz

Sorry but I’m still not clear about the difference between the MS_PAYMENT_DELAY and the “grace period”.

You said above that

the invoice is generated 5 days before the expiry date. But you can define a constant MS_PAYMENT_DELAY in the wp-config.php to add more days on top of the 5 days.

From this I understand that MS_PAYMENT_DELAY relates to the invoice and how long before expiry it is generated.

Whereas the comments in the code state that –

The grace-period extends the subscriptions active stage by the given number of days to allow payment gateways some extra time to report any payments, before actually expiring the subscription.

Please can you explain the difference between the two?

Also if it helps, this is what I want to achieve –

Invoice is available to pay 1 month (or 30 days) PRIOR to expiry.
Members also have 1 month (or 30 days) AFTER expiry to pay the invoice before access is denied.

The membership is 1 year recurring but some members will be paying either manually or PayPal Single payments so we can’t assume that payment on expiry date will be automatic.

Really, really hoping you can help with this as it is taking far, far too long to resolve what I feel sure are very basic requirements.

With many thanks in advance
Nik

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by Nik.

Hi again

Thank you and OK I think I am beginning to understand, however, MS_PAYMENT_DELAY doesn’t seem to be working as I would expect ie.

In wp-config I set – define(‘MS_PAYMENT_DELAY’, 5);

I add a member to a one week membership (12th to 19th August) then change the dates so it is due to expire yesterday (ie. 4th to 11th August). The membership status immediately changes to “Expired (no access)”.

Surely the member should still have access for another 5 days?

Is this perhaps because I am changing the dates manually (it takes so long to check things if I don’t!) or am I still not understanding how MS_PAYMENT_DELAY is designed to work?

Regards
Nik