Title: Recurring payment problem: change payment method
Last modified: August 3, 2021

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# Recurring payment problem: change payment method

 *  [jaron0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaron0/)
 * (@jaron0)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/)
 * We’re experiencing a huge flaw regarding the unavailability of the option to 
   change the payment method for recurring payments with Mollie Payments for WooCommerce.
   Although the issue and its inconvenience is already described in a previous thread:
   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-payment-methods-with-woocommerce-subscriptions/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-payment-methods-with-woocommerce-subscriptions/),
   another problem occurs. Namely, when a customer’s Creditcard is declined due 
   to, for example, an unavailable balance, Mollie’s API won’t retry to complete
   the recurring payment. Therefore, the workflow ends here because the customer
   won’t receive any email, the mandate expires and the customer will not be able
   to change its payment method. The only solution is to let the customer purchase
   a completely new product again, which is actually not doable.
 * As stated in the thread I’ve mentioned above, the only option to change a payment
   method occurs when an automatic renewal fails. However, this will only be triggered
   when the retry system applies ([https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/failed-payment-retry/](https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/failed-payment-retry/)),
   which is not the case with recurring via Mollie – Creditcard.
 * Lastly, I refer to another thread which describes the problem of ours as well:
   [https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/failed-payment-retry/](https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/failed-payment-retry/).
   It seems that the only good solution is to make it possible for customers, or
   store owners, to change the payment method for Mollie recurring payments. Due
   to the Creditcard issue, there really is no option for customers to change its
   payment method in any way now.
 * I hope you could provide some more information or give us an update regarding
   this issue. Thank you very much in advance.

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 *  Plugin Support [Syde Niklas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niklasinpsyde/)
 * (@niklasinpsyde)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/#post-14749941)
 * Hi [@jaron0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaron0/),
 * I’m not aware of the credit card behavior being reported previously, so we will
   investigate what’s happening there. Thanks for the information.
    We are still
   looking at adding the features to change the payment methods and I actually brought
   it up again with our project lead just a few days ago. In the coming days, I 
   hope to learn more about it, but there are still no immediate plans to integrate
   this feature. All I can tell you for now is that it’s internally documented and
   on the to-do list.
 * Kind regards,
    Niklas
 *  Thread Starter [jaron0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaron0/)
 * (@jaron0)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/#post-14764762)
 * Hi [@niklasinpsyde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niklasinpsyde/),
 * Thank you for your answer. It would be nice of you could look into the credit
   card behavior.
 * Also, it would be great if the change payment method feature would be released
   soon. Thanks for talking about it with the project lead. If you point out the
   necessity in the near future, it would really help us and other users of your
   plugin.
 * Thank you in advance.
 *  Plugin Support [Syde Niklas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niklasinpsyde/)
 * (@niklasinpsyde)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/#post-14894185)
 * Hi [@jaron0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaron0/),
 * Thanks for your patience.
    We are still looking into the behavior with failed
   credit card payments. This is not something we can easily reproduce in test-mode,
   so it takes a bit more time for us to investigate. When we know more about this,
   we will provide an update this thread for you.
 * But the feature to change the payment method will be a focus for our next major
   plugin update which is planned to be released before the end of the year. The
   plan is to release this together with some other new subscription features, but
   I can’t fully judge the timeline as of now.
    It’s not so trivial to add this 
   functionality in this case, but I’m sure that we are going to make it work. Thanks
   for your feedback!
 * Kind regards,
    Niklas
 *  [hank9991](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hank9991/)
 * (@hank9991)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/#post-14894308)
 * [@niklasinpsyde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niklasinpsyde/) atm we hired
   a team [@codeable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeable/) to enable payment
   method change on mollie gateway plugin. If you are interested it let me know.
 *  Plugin Support [Syde Niklas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niklasinpsyde/)
 * (@niklasinpsyde)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/#post-14894528)
 * Hi [@hank9991](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hank9991/),
 * Sure, we are always interested in feedback, ideas, and contributions.
    From our
   side, the feature would likely arrive sometime within the next to months but 
   as mentioned above, that’s the only timeframe I could provide as of now. All 
   I can say beyond that is that this is a highly requested feature and we are working
   closely with Mollie to make it work.
 * If you hire someone who manages make it work for you and you are interested to
   share your findings, then the best place would be either our GitHub page here:
   
   [https://github.com/mollie/WooCommerce/issues/](https://github.com/mollie/WooCommerce/issues/)
   Or if you reach out to our internal support from here: [https://mollie.inpsyde.com/docs/request-support/](https://mollie.inpsyde.com/docs/request-support/)
 * Thanks!
 * Kind regards,
    Niklas
 *  [hank9991](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hank9991/)
 * (@hank9991)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/#post-14947015)
 * [@niklasinpsyde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niklasinpsyde/)
 * we’ve made it working and implemented already in our live side. if you are interested
   give a way to contact you. Won’t share it on github for free, as of it was pretty
   costy for me.
    -  This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by [hank9991](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hank9991/).
 *  Plugin Support [Syde Niklas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niklasinpsyde/)
 * (@niklasinpsyde)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/#post-14952549)
 * Hi [@hank9991](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hank9991/),
 * Sure, you can reach us privately from here:
    [https://mollie.inpsyde.com/docs/request-support/](https://mollie.inpsyde.com/docs/request-support/)
 * Our own implementation will likely come after the upcoming major refactor update
   because it’s changing up quite a few things. But even if your implementation 
   ceases to work after the next major update, then we should already be in a position
   to provide the feature natively. Though I’m not yet in a position to provide 
   more details about the timeline.
    I will provide another update in this thread
   when I know more about it though. Thanks!
 * Kind regards,
    Niklas
 *  [DreamPress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dreampress/)
 * (@dreampress)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/#post-14969947)
 * Wow, i was searching (again) for a solution.
    But is sounds like it’s beginning
   to look like a real implementation. We do hope you guys can pull this off. And
   hopefully soon!
 * So, i will follow this thread. Thanks Niklas.
 *  [DreamPress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dreampress/)
 * (@dreampress)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/#post-15061240)
 * Hi there, Mollie 6.7 is out… any luck in having the Change Payment Method feature
   in the update?
 *  [atojurian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atojurian/)
 * (@atojurian)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/#post-15069959)
 * Dear [@niklasinpsyde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niklasinpsyde/),
 * +1 on this request, very curious to hear when the Change Payment Method feature
   will be released. Also – will this feature also apply to existing subscriptions?
 * Thanks in advance.
 *  Plugin Support [Syde Niklas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niklasinpsyde/)
 * (@niklasinpsyde)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-payment-problem-change-payment-method/#post-15070588)
 * Hi everyone,
 * There will be no further plugin updates before the holidays and this feature 
   didn’t make it in time for 6.7.0. But if anyone is interested in testing it out
   before the next release, then I suggest sending us a message with a link to this
   thread from here: [https://mollie.inpsyde.com/docs/request-support/](https://mollie.inpsyde.com/docs/request-support/)
   
   Once all internal testing was completed, we would appreciate some early user 
   feedback anyway. Thanks!
 * Kind regards,
    Niklas

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