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Subscription plan with higher first payment

Subscription plan with higher first payment

Jack114
Visitor
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Hi, 

 

Can anyone give me some guidance of how I can offer a recurring subscription plan for a physical product with the first payment being different from the all the following recurring payments. 

 

Thanks 

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patricklai
Shopify Staff
6 2 1

Hi Jack114,

 

You can make the first payment in a subscription different by defining a fixed pricing policy along with a recurring pricing policy when you create the selling plan that defines the subscription.

 

First define a fixed pricing policy that you want to represent the first payment. This can either be a percentage discount, a price discount or a fixed price.


Then you can define a recurring pricing policy that you want to represent subsequent payments. Recurring pricing policies have an afterCycle property that corresponds to after how many payments the policy kicks in. Since you only want the first payment to be different you can set this value to 1.

See:

https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/selling-strategies/subscriptions/selling-plans

https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/2024-01/input-objects/SellingPlanPricingPolicyInput 

for more info

To learn more visit the Shopify Help Center or the Community Blog.

SealSubs
Explorer
79 1 4

Hi,

 

If you wish, you could try using our Seal Subscriptions app. You should be able to easily set any price you wish for your subscription products, by setting a discount or a fixed subscription price. Then, you could enable the "Automatic discount modification" setting, to change the discount after the initial purchase.

 

Henry - Seal Subscriptions

Seal Subscriptions App, a subscription app for Shopify, with glowing user testimonials.