Synchronized renewals

Synchronized renewals align every subscription to a fixed calendar day instead of the customer’s signup anniversary. This is useful for predictable revenue timing or clean accounting cycles.

When to use synchronized renewals

• You want all monthly subscribers to renew on the same day of the month.
• You want all yearly subscribers to renew on a specific month and day.
• You want cleaner billing cycles that line up with calendar months or a fiscal reporting date.

If you want every customer to keep their own anniversary, leave sync disabled. If you want subscriptions to end on a shared date rather than renew on one, use Fixed expiry.

Enabling synchronized renewals

The sync settings live under Subscriptions → Settings → Checkout:

1. Turn on Enable synchronized renewals.
2. Choose Renewal day of month (1 to 28). Used for monthly and quarterly subscriptions, and as the day for yearly renewals.
3. Choose Renewal month (yearly subscriptions) (January to December). Yearly subscriptions renew on this month and the day selected above.
4. Optionally turn on Prorate first payment so the first payment reflects the days remaining until the next sync date.
5. Save.

The plugin does not expose a “Last day of month” choice or a separate weekly-sync setting.

Proration behavior

Proration is a single toggle. When enabled, the first payment is calculated based on the days remaining until the next sync date. When disabled, the customer pays the full billing-period amount at signup.

Trials and sign-up fees

Sign-up fees are charged at checkout as usual. Trial interaction with sync is handled by the plugin’s renewal scheduling.

Interaction with other features

Fixed expiry

A subscription with both sync and Fixed expiry will renew on sync dates until the fixed expiry date, then expire.

Expire after

Expire after is counted in billing periods, so a 3-period limit on a monthly synced subscription captures three sync-date renewals.

Switching

Switches to a synced product inherit the sync schedule.

Reporting

Because every renewal happens on the same day, expect revenue spikes at sync points. MRR normalization is unchanged; your MRR figure does not spike, only the cash timing.

Troubleshooting

A customer paid the full price instead of a prorated amount

Verify Prorate first payment is enabled. With proration off, every customer pays the full period at signup.

The setting lives under a different tab than expected

The synchronized renewals options live in the Checkout tab of the settings page, alongside other recurring-payment rules.

Next steps

• Renewals
• Fixed expiry
• Switching