Anchoring a monthly billing cycle

[jkaan]

Hi there!

I have a question about a particular requirement that I have and I'm struggling on how to implement it :).

What I would like is it the subscriptions always start at the first of the month. Doing that means that I would also like to charge the user for what is remaining of that month. Let's say that I start a subscription at the middle of the month of a 20 euro subscription. I would like to start the subscription at the first of the next month and I would like to charge 10 euros now.

Is that possible?

Thanks a lot!

[sandervanhooft]

This is called "anchoring the billing cycle".

This is not supported yet. There's a few things that we'd need for that:

• To do: Modify the subscription interval calculation to enable a fixed day (n) of the month, see issue Interval calculation #41
• Available: Reset the payment cycle and reimburse the amount overpaid. You can use this subscription method.
• Available: Process due OrderItems only on the nth day of the month (schedule cashier::run on first day of the month only). Edit: this is not really necessary once the subscription interval calculation has been modified. If you run every fifteen minutes, the OrderItems will be processed into an invoice on the anchored day.

[robindirksen1]

To do: Modify the subscription interval calculation to enable a fixed day (n) of the month, see issue #44

This is issue #41 instead of PR #44, right?

[sandervanhooft]

Correct, updated in original post.

[lexdewilligen]

@sandervanhooft are you currently working on this feature? Or is anyone else working on this feature?

[sandervanhooft]

It's not on the top of my list to be honest. Will launch Spark Mollie first. Feel free to create a PR.