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# Let a member skip their next monthly payment

You can allow members with an active monthly Shopify subscription to pause for one billing month from their membership area. The payment date moves forward by one calendar month. Benefit access pauses after the current paid period and resumes after the next successful payment.

Existing Shopify store credit remains available during the pause. Member-only discounts, gated products, locked content, events, rewards, new benefit awards, and other membership access are unavailable while benefits are paused.

This option is available in both Shopify customer accounts and the legacy Memberply member dashboard.

## Enable payment skips for a tier

1. In Memberply, open **Membership Tiers**.
2. Edit a monthly tier, or a tier that offers both monthly and yearly billing.
3. Select **Allow monthly members to skip their next payment**.
4. Save the tier.

The setting applies only to members who selected monthly billing. It is disabled by default, so existing tiers do not begin offering payment skips until you enable it.

## How a member skips a payment

1. Open the membership area.
2. Find **Pause for a month** under the membership details.
3. Review when benefit access will pause and confirm.
4. Memberply updates the Shopify subscription and shows the pause period and new payment date.

## When the option is available

The member can skip a payment when:

* Their subscription is active and billed every month.
* Their next payment date is still in the future.
* Their payment is not currently failed or challenged.
* They have not scheduled a cancellation.
* They have not already skipped the current billing cycle.

A member can pause once in each billing cycle. Access continues until the current paid period ends. Memberply then pauses membership-only benefits and restores them after the next successful subscription payment. If that payment fails, benefits remain paused while the normal payment recovery process continues.

Annual, free, one-time payment, imported, cancelled, and cancellation-scheduled memberships cannot use this option.

## Example

If the next payment is due on 15 September and the member pauses, the new payment date becomes 15 October. Benefits remain available through 14 September, pause from 15 September, and resume after the payment on 15 October succeeds. Existing Shopify store credit remains spendable throughout the pause.