Changing plan validity period and effect on renewal fees for expired subs

I have three plans

1. Initial pricing & validity: $50 for first yr. Then, 100 for subsequent years
2. $100 p/yr
3. $100 p/yr

Many of the of the plans had expired earlier this year (due to lack of follow up.)

To encourage subscriptions, we decided to change the pricing to $50 for all plans for this calendar year, and $100 for subsequent year. (We did not create new plans, just adjusted the configurations).

This works for new subscriptions.

However, for those expired subscriptions on plan 1 - the renewal cost shows as $100.

How can I ensure that renewals for this calendar year is $50.

Initial price/duration only applies to the first purchase. It will not apply to renewals. Probably best approach to have a promotion like that is to use CBSubs Promotions and give them a coupon or auto-apply the promotion.

Thank you.

I realised there must be a lot of calculations going on in the background regarding the price already paid & previous validity vs the new configurations & it is throwing up some funny things.

I decided to let the previous plans stay as they are but make them non-renewable and unavailable for new purchases, and create a new set of plans.

This way users on the old set of plans will have to subscribe to the new set when the older ones expire.

This is the simplest method I could think of.

Yup, that will work as they can then upgrade into the introductory price. If you don't want to do that though you can again just use a promotion. Ideally you'd change the price then have an auto-applied promotion for renewals only to give the discounted price and have the promotion only apply once per customer. That should give what you're wanting without having to make a second plan, but it's entirely up to you on how you want to go about this as both methods will work fine.

I decided follow your advice and change the set-up of the existing plans - cost and validity period - and use an automated promotion to add a discount for this calendar year.

The promotion works very well for new subscriptions, renewals and upgrades.
I can show the discount rate and new price on the plans using the 'display' options tab for the promotion. (screen-shot 1)

For 'reactivations' - where a subscription has expired some time ago - the promotion does get applied correctly at the payment summary page.

However, it does not show the discounted amount on the expired subscription plan. It shows the full amount. (screen-shot 2)

Is there a setting where I change this?

Strange, it should be able to override the price there fine. Seams to work fine for me using the below settings.

Advanced
Applies to registrations: Yes
Applies to upgrades: Yes
Applies to renewals: Yes
Single payment (and for autorecurring payments subscriptions: First payment amount): Yes
For Autorecurring payments subscriptions only: Second and following auto-recurring payments amounts: No

Display
Override plans display: Yes, display plans differently as follows:
Display price: Automatic sale display: Strike-through regular price with "SALE!" display of new price

Do you have any other conditions or settings in usage different from the above? If so please provide them so I can check on my end and see what could be going wrong or if is working as intended.