How to change Woocommerce subscriptions plan pricing in PayPal subscriptions
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Changing a WooCommerce Subscriptions plan price does not automatically change PayPal Subscription
If you are using PayPal standard as a payment option in WooCommerce Subscriptions, there are multiple issues.
One of the issues occurs when you change a user's subscription plan price in WooCommerce the linked PayPal subscription plan won't be updated. Thus, if the original subscription plan was for $200/mo and you change the WooCommerce Subscription to $149/mo for the user, they will still be billed $200/mo by PayPal unless you manually update the PayPal subscription also.
Steps To Take
Find WooCommerce PayPal Subscriptions
- From the WP Admin menu select WooCommerce > Subscriptions.
- From the post status menu at the top, select Active for the subscription status to display so you are only working with active subscriptions.
- Then, from the filter menu at the top select PayPal for the payment method.
- Optionally search for a specific product to work with.
- Click on the Filter button.
- Optionally, you can then click on the Next Payment column heading to sort the date by payment date.
- Open the WooCommerce Subscriptions details for a specific individual subscription by clicking on the subscription number listed in the column called Subscription. (hint: you can ctl-click / command-click on the subscription number to open it in a new window.
- Locate the PayPal Subscription ID, highlight it, and copy to clipboard.
Find the related PayPal Subscription.
- Login to PayPal.
- Click Pay & Get Paid > Subscriptions.
- Click Subscriptions again in the left column menu.
- Paste into the search box the subscription ID that you copied from the WooCommerce subscription detail and click the search icon.
- Click on the Subscription ID.
- Review the data and if the pricing needs to be updated, click on Update.
- Update the price. Note the warning that price changes within 10 days of the next payment won't take effect until the following payment.
- Save Updates.
- To update additional subscriptions, scroll to the top of the PayPal screen and click on the <-- arrow to return to the search screen. You can then copy another subscription ID from WooCommerce and check the PayPal status.