Question:
I need to be able to create a price plan where you have a deposit which you pay at the first click, and THEN the reoccurring payments start the next month. So basically I want to have a 1500$ deposit and then the remaining $2000 Is broken up over X amount of months. I want that first months billing to start a month after this initial deposit is made.
Product:
[Wix Plans in Wix Editor]
What are you trying to achieve:
I need to be able to create a price plan where you have a deposit, and THEN the reoccurring payments start the next month. So basically I want to have a 1500$ deposit and then the remaining $2000 Is broken up over X amount of months. I want that first months billing to start a month after this initial deposit is made.
What have you already tried:
tried to have this done and you do this service in Proposals and Invoices where you set the actual date and frequencies of payments
Additional information:
if we cant add a product on the website that allows people to pay a deposit/setup fee and then have the 1st month payment 30 days after the deposit payment.
Can you make it so we can setup an invoice that allows us to do exactly like the proposal.
In the proposal, you mention the product or service and then underneath you set the parameters. You set the 1st initial payment and then after that you set the date and price for the remaining payments.
Just to give a little more context too, This is for a Ice Hockey team that owns multiple teams.
They are having the athletes sign up and pay online via theirwebsite.
So the athlete would log into the website, and navigate to the pricing plans page.
On that page they would find their team and then pay their yearly fee.
That yearly fee would have a deposit.
When they check out, the deposit is paid on that day.
Then their reoccurring monthly charge after would start that following month.
Unfortunately Pricing Plans do not have Deposits as a functionality.
Wix Bookings does offer deposits , but it only allows for a single deposit and a single payment for the remaining balance. Not recurring payments.
Wix Invoices allows recurring payments but only with compatible payment processors such as PayPal and Stripe AND the payments must be of equal amounts (no deposit).
It may be possible to create a clunky hybrid solution with Wix Bookings and Wix Invoices, but it will require code.
For example, you can add the Team as a person in Wix Booking. The player pays the appropriate fee. Then via code, we can create an automation so that a recurring invoice gets created and sent out with the appropriate due date for the first recurring payment. The first recurring payment requests via invoice, however, will have to be paid manually by the player because payment details from Wix Bookings (or any other Wix app) will not be transferred or shared.
Now, seeing as the only 2 compatible payment providers that offer recurring payments are PayPal and Stripe …… why not see what they offer directly?
PayPal offers their own invoice solution . You can setup a recurring invoice with a one time “setup fee” (this could be the deposit), they offer a “free trial” (this could be the 30 day delay for first recurring payment) and they offer the recurring payments.
I believe you create your product on PayPal and then you are able to embed it on a website.
Stripe has different options as well but they are bit more complex to setup.
Yeah - We have thought about the Paypal solution - but the whole reason for using wix was to keep everything in wix, That way we can track who has paid, who hasn’t, send emails quick etc. We love the system - just trying to use it and still keep the cost manageable for our clients. By having that deposit act as the first payment and deposit…then billing starts month later…we can achieve that.
The system is great - There is only one other competitor out there that actually rivals wix and if we can get this featured created/enabled… We could start making some serious money - I know I have probably 20+ teams willing to switch over, but this billing thing is what kills us.
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I hear ya.
Well …. you can create anything with code if you want a bespoke flow. Stripe or PayPal’s APi will allow that. You just need a serious budget to build a serious solution.
You can create pricing plans with a setup fee. Would that work? Pricing Plans Request: Charging a Setup Fee | Help Center | Wix.com
I just don’t see the option to add the setup fee if you doing it with code…
