When upsizing/downsizing a subscription based on a Variable MnM product, how to handle discount/coupon? and updated shipping?

[limist]

Question per title please: Suppose we have two Variable MnM products defined, with the same bundle structure (e.g. 20, 30, 60 items; correspondingly higher prices for larger bundles).

There's no problem at the point of initial subscription checkout/purchase and creation, where the usual WooCommerce coupon and shipping rules can be applied during checkout. e.g. we can apply a discount for the next renewal order, that they can see in their My Account > Subscriptions page just fine. (A coupon could be used, or an AutomateWoo Workflow.)

But later, when the user is using the wc-mnm-subscription-editing UI etc, suppose they change their subscription to a different MnM variation:

• Is there a way to apply a discount or coupon when they finish updating their new variation please?
• And relatedly, is there a way to re-run shipping rules, e.g. checking shipping rules & costs defined using the Table Rate Shipping plugin?

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

[helgatheviking]

Hi Kai, I think we're running into big hurdle here. This plugin is meant to allow editing of contents without going through the cart/checkout flow. However, you probably should to go through the cart/checkout flow if you want to attach coupons or recalculate shipping. I thought discounts were recalculated when updating the order.... but it's been a while and can't recall if we confirmed that.

Shipping is calculated almost entirely in the cart, so that poses a big challenge.

[limist]

@helgatheviking Belated follow-up, we're still interested in a way to apply a discount on MnM subscriptions, and only on the 2nd order and beyond (discourage attempts to game subscription discounts by deferring such to the 2+ orders).

How about another solution here, e.g. is there an action we can hook into when the user is done editing an MnM subscription, whereupon a custom function could apply a discount to the normal MnM bundle/variation price please? Or perhaps an event is fired, that AutomateWoo can take as a trigger? Thanks!

[helgatheviking]

Hi @limist,

woocommerce_scheduled_subscription_payment might be an option as it will fire when a payment is going to be processed (aka a renewal).

Or Maybe also wcs_renewal_order_created filter.. this seems more promising as you could manipulate the order that's created.

But if we step back a bit... could you apply a signup fee to cover the price difference between the renewal cost and the regular cost? Example, renewals are at $50/mo but to prevent anyone gaming that for 1 month you could charge $50/mo + $50 signup. Or a $100 signup with a $0 trial period and then $50 on renewal. That's all built into the Subs plugin and so could get you close to what you want without any custom coding.

[limist]

@helgatheviking Thanks; for clarity in marketing communications etc and because of historical precedents, we'd still prefer to apply a discount on renewal orders (rather than charge a subscription setup fee) and that can happen with AutomateWoo. And then secondly, apply it at the time of upsizing/downsizing the variable MnM product (when the MnM subscription-editing UI is being used), if there's any upsizing or downsizing.

Is there an action hook in subscription-editing that can be used for the upsizing/downsizing scenario please? Thanks!

[helgatheviking]

Yes, there's a hook

wc_mnm_updated_container_in_$order_type

which for a subscription I believe would be wc_mnm_updated_container_in_shop_subscription

and

wc_mnm_updated_container_in_order (which would fire for all order types)