Through the Delivery schedules settings, you will be able to schedule deliveries for those subscriptions whose renewal payment does not match the delivery date. For example, you might sell a monthly subscription to a printed magazine that is billed yearly. In this case, you will charge your users yearly, so the renewal order will be generated every one year, but you will need a tool to schedule and prepare all the monthly shipping.
To add this section to the plugin panel, you must first enable the related module from Modules.
Let’s now analyze the available options:
- Set a delivery schedule of subscription products for: select the products or categories that will be affected by the delivery schedules.
- All products: you will be able to exclude some products or categories if this option is selected.
- Only non-virtual products: you will be able to exclude some products or categories if this option is selected.
- Specific products: you can select the products in the option Products to include.
- Specific categories: you will be able to select the categories in the option Categories to include.
- Products to exclude: enable this option if you want to exclude some products from delivery.
- Default delivery schedule: you can choose how frequently the subscription products have to be delivered, for example, every 1st of the month or every Monday. If the product recurrence is set in days, you will not be able to set a synchronization day. If the product recurrence is set in weeks, you will be able to choose the day of the week. Please, note that if the billing cycle is 2 weeks and Monday, it will always be the first Monday every two weeks.This is a global setting that can be overridden inside the product page. If the product recurrence is set in years, you will be able to choose month and day, for example January 1st or June 30th every year.
These general settings will apply to your product selection, but you will be able to override this on a product or variation level. For more information see here.