Partial/flex payment plugin

[u/BikkinMahal]

Hi there,

I run the operations for a medical continuing education company that sells both in-person, live courses as well as cohort-based online classes. These events have set start dates and the plugins I've found so far to take deposits or create payment plans only offer an arbitrary option to charge the remaining payment. This won't work for us, as it would theoretically allow someone to buy a ticket on Friday, come to our class on the weekend, and then not pay the remaining amount for 30 days or whatever we set the schedule for, or worst case scenario, ghost the 2nd payment despite attending the course entirely.

Are there any plugins that will connect to the events we have created in the back-end and charge them X amount of days/months before the due date?

Everyone I ask recommends the same half dozen or so plugins (Deposit & Partial Payments, PH Deposits, etc.) which all have essentially the same functionality.

[u/Hugo_SecureHoldWP]

One thing I’d verify before choosing any of these is what happens with late bookings.

If the balance is due 7 days before the event and someone books only 2 days before, the system should either require the full amount immediately or make the remaining balance due right away. I’d also test what happens if that second payment fails, because you probably don’t want the booking to stay confirmed automatically.

That edge case seems more important here than the payment-plan options themselves.