Changing an Existing Membership’s Pricing Terms

Overview

There are a couple of reasons why you may want to change the pricing terms of an existing membership:

1. Offer a temporary discount
2. Natural inflation of your product
3. Wanting to charge more
4. Changing the billing type (one-time payment to recurring)
5. Etc.

These are all very good reasons to update the price of your membership. Additionally, you should make note of the following:

• Do NOT delete a membership to create a different price term. This applies whenever any users have active subscriptions to that membership.
• Price updates are not applied retroactively to users with automatically recurring subscriptions. These users keep their original price. They are billed that amount each payment cycle. Users on manually renewing subscriptions pay the updated price when renewing.
• You will not be able to change the price of current signups. For example, you cannot increase the recurring cost of existing subscriptions.
  • If your user signed up via Stripe, you can change their billing price by manually changing the billing date or price for a user’s subscription.
• All current users will continue on their price until their subscriptions are cancelled.
  • Recurring subscribers keep their price until the subscription is cancelled or expires. They pay the new price only if they sign up again.

Making the Change

Follow these steps to change the pricing terms of an existing membership:

1. Navigate to Dashboard > MemberPress > Products.
2. Find the membership on the list, and click on its title to open it for editing.
3. Update the pricing terms as needed.
4. Click the Update button to save the changes.