The Paid Member Subscriptions (PMS) plugin is used with the Stripe Connect payment gateway.
For subscriptions, the following are set up:
- Sign-up Fee (for example, 10 zł) — charged immediately.
- Free Trial (daily trial).
- Recurring Price (for example, 100 zł/week), which automatically starts after the trial.
Everything works technically: Stripe receives the correct sign_up_fee, the subscription is created correctly.
However, Apple Pay (Stripe Checkout) displays not the sign_up_fee amount, but the total subscription cost (Recurring Price), which misleads users (shows "100 zł" instead of "10 zł"). This is a known bug — PMS is aware of it.

Task

Goal: ensure the correct display of the first payment amount in Apple Pay/Stripe Checkout

1. Problem, briefly:

In the current version:

— the user pays 10 zł (sign_up_fee), this happens correctly.

— but Apple Pay shows the amount of 100 zł (recurring price), which scares the UX.

Root of the problem:

— Stripe Checkout is formed on the PMS server and shows the subscription `amount`, not the `sign_up_fee`.

— JS workarounds do not help — Apple Pay is already initialized with the wrong amount.

2. Proposed solution:

Plugin fix

Add dynamic determination of the amount in create_payment_intent() (in class-payment-gateway-stripe-connect.php).
If the current payment is indeed sign_up_fee, pass it to amount instead of the regular amount.

That is:

if ( $is_first_payment ) {

$args['amount'] = $this->process_amount( $subscription_plan->get_sign_up_fee(), $currency );

}

And so that Stripe Checkout shows exactly this amount: Apple Pay will start displaying 10 zł, as intended.

3. Alternative path (as on https://rentola.bg/):

The user enters email → Stripe Checkout immediately displays the amount of 10 zł — without plan selection and Apple Pay.
After payment, a subscription is automatically created for them (via PMS API).
After 3 days — a second payment is created, or they are transferred to a full plan.
This is much simpler from a UX perspective and bypasses Apple Pay issues.

Summary

Fix the Apple Pay amount display: show sign_up_fee, not recurring price.
Or replace the flow with: email → instant 10 zł → trial → automatic transition to subscription.

Proposals 2

Boris H.

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Budget: 5000 UAH Deadline: 5 days

Hello Maxim,

As far as I understand, you are okay with the hardcoded plugin option and that it will not be updated? If that's fine, I can take care of the fix. Do you have a staging site or is the site already in production?

Kostiantyn Pavlukhin

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Budget: 12500 UAH Deadline: 7 days

Hello,

I am a developer in the field of AI/ML & WEB DEV. I can complete your project. Write to me, and we will discuss.

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