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First payment date for WooCommerce Subscriptions
This plugin allows you to set a first payment date for a subscription, using WooCommerce Subscriptions. So you will be able to set a specific date.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.7★ from 10
- Active installs
- 400+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 7 Aug 2026
- Added
- Mar 2019
- Requires WP
- 3.4
- Tested up to
- WP 7.0.4
- Requires PHP
- 5.6
- Downloads
- 26,255
Our analysis
AI-assistedThe First Payment Date for WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin allows you to set a specific date for the first payment of a subscription product in WooCommerce. This is useful for merchants who want to offer subscriptions with a defined start date rather than relying solely on trial periods. You can specify either a fixed date or a calculated date, such as the first day of the next month or year.
This plugin is suitable for WooCommerce store owners who offer subscription products and want to provide clarity to their customers regarding payment schedules. Users will see how many days they can access the subscription for free before the first payment is due.
Best for: WooCommerce store owners offering subscription products.
What it does well
- ✓Allows setting a specific first payment date for subscriptions
- ✓Supports fixed or calculated payment dates
- ✓Displays payment schedule information to users
Where it falls short
- •Premium features are only available in the PRO version
- •Limited information on additional functionalities
Verdict
This plugin provides a straightforward solution for managing subscription payment dates, but its premium features may limit functionality for some users.
From the developer
Javier Carazo's own description of First payment date for WooCommerce Subscriptions, lightly tidied.
When you are using a site with WooCommerce Subscriptions you can change the first payment date using trial periods. But a trial period is a period, not a date. So you can set “1 month free” but you cannot set “this subscriptions will start being paid this date”, whenever you make the bought of the subscription. This plugin solves this problem.
Basics
- Set in every product or product variaition, which is the date of the first payment to be done. You can set a fixed date or a calculated one (first day of next month or first day of next year)
- When a user buys your subscription, based in a product subscription or a product variable subscription, it will get the first payment in the specified date
- User will see in cart and checkout how many days he can get the subscription for free until the first payment will be done
Premium features
Additional features available only in PRO plugin version.
- For each product or product variation, you can also set the date of the last payment to be made. You can use a fixed date or a calculated one: first day of next month, first day of next year, last day next month, last day this year, last day next year.
- You will have full control of the payment schedule regardless of when the subscription purchase was made.
- Show and check the payment schedule, check how many payments will be made, when and how much. Show it to your customers as well.
- Custom the messages, customise WooCommerce Subscriptions strings to inform your customers in a natural and correct way.
Usage
Once the plugin is installed you can use it. Go to Product data, search “First payment date” and fill it. If you are using a variable product, you will find it in each variation.
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