Create a product: Stationery box (Grandfathered price)

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Last updated: Feb 18, 2022 by Igor Krasnykh
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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 subscriptions

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

  1. Creating "Stationery Subscription Box" product

  • Product Name: Stationery Subscription Box

  • SKU: stationery-box

  • Price: $32

  • At this point our basic product setup is complete

 

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)

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

 

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

 

 

RESULT:

Product price increase for new subscriptions

 

 

Product price increase ignored for existing subscription

Product price decrease will be also ignored