This tutorial is geared for a merchant who is selling Stationery box subscriptions and needs to change the price (increase or raise). These changes shouldn't affect existing subscriptionsWhat ‘Grandfathered' pricemeans
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Grandfathered - product price is grandfathered and will not change for existing profiles when orders are created even if the product price changes in the catalog for new customers. |
In this example let's imagine you are a stationery merchant. One of the products you are selling is a stationery subscription box.
We want to allow once-a-week, monthly, and once in two months subscriptions to this product (recurring purchase only)
Step-by-step guide
One simple way to get this setup would be to create a simple product "Stationery subscription box" and set up billing frequency weekly, monthly, and once in two months
Creating "Stationery Subscription Box" product
Product Name: Stationery Subscription Box
SKU: stationery-box
Price: $32
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point our basic product setup is complete
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2. Setup Billing Frequency (how to set up a billing frequency)
Navigate to MPOWER - Configuration – Billing Frequency
Add new billing frequency (weekly, monthly, and once in two months)
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3. Open previously created product and Scroll down to the Subscription Options section and open it
Available For: set to "Recurring Purchase only", since we don’t want this product to be purchased as a one-off
Click on the ‘Manage’ button for opening Recurring Options Management
Is Trial Offered (step1): Off
Start Date (step1): Moment of purchase
Lock Product Price (step1) - ON (This option will allow us to keep the product price the same regardless of the billing frequency selected)
Billing Frequencies (Step2): Click on Add New button three times and select correspond Billing Frequency (weekly, monthly, and once in two months)
Click Next and Save
At this point basic configuration of a subscription is done
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4. Set Profile Product Price: Grandfathered
Navigate to Stores - Configuration - MPOWER - Subscription Profiles
Select Grandfathered from Profile Product Price dropdown
Save Config
Place an order with created subscription (for example monthly subscription)
Increase or decrease product price in Admin Panel
As a customer change qty for an existing subscription
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RESULT:
Product price increase for new subscriptions
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Product price increase ignored for existing subscription
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Product price decrease will be also ignored
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