Fixed EOT Date w/ Prorated Billing

Our membership period is May 1 – April 30 every year, I currently have membership set up as a subscription renewing every 1-year but that is from whatever date they start through 365 days later. I need to know what to do so that the amount of the first payment will be prorated based on when they join and have a fixed EOT date of April 30th.

For example, if I register on May 1 I pay $58 and expire on May 1 but if I register on November 1 I pay $29 and expire on May 1.

I found this article: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/recurring-prorating-of-billing/ but it is from 2011 and the suggestion isn’t working for me. Although I am not a developer so it could be user error.

We upgraded to PRO so that we can make this happen, but I’m at a loss on how to get it set up properly. Please help.

I found this article: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/recurring-prorating-of-billing/ but it is from 2011 and the suggestion isn’t working for me. Although I am not a developer so it could be user error.

This article goes over the method that is still needed to accomplish what you’re looking for here. s2Member does not natively support prorating subscriptions and having subscriptions start at a certain time so it takes some custom code. For your setup your code would start something like this:

<?php
$now = strtotime("now");
$recurring_start_time = strtotime("01 May 2013");
$days_until_recurring_charges_begin = round(($recurring_start_time - $now) / ($seconds_in_one_day = 86400));
?>

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