Scheduled price changes: set the rise, walk away

What does the capability do?

It removes the late-night manual update from price-rise day, and the pricing drift that follows it.

• Future-dated by design. A scheduled change is a record: package, optional target site, effective date, and the three fees (recurring, registration, freeze) it sets.
• Applied automatically, with audit. When a change falls due, the apply job updates the targeted per-site pricing, records audit events for each update, and retires the schedule record. Nothing depends on a person remembering the date.
• Freeze fees included. Because the freeze fee travels with the change, membership freezes stay correctly priced through a rise rather than being forgotten as an edge case.
• Member-level scheduling too. Individual plan changes (a member moving package or price from a future date) are their own scheduled records, and billing substitutes them only once effective. Agreed amounts captured at signup are respected in the meantime.

How it fits multi-site pricing

Package pricing in the Membership accelerator is per site, organised into bands of sites sharing the same fees. Scheduled changes target exactly the sites they should: a rise for one band applies to that band’s sites on the effective date and touches nothing else. Combined with the audit events written at apply time, an operator can always answer what changed, where, when, and by whom.

Why it matters

Pricing changes are where membership systems quietly corrupt trust. Applied by hand, they arrive late at some sites, miss the freeze fee, or overwrite what existing members agreed. Modelling the change as a dated, targeted, audited record makes a price rise a decision rather than a project, and it is the same date-derived design the platform uses across freezes, plan changes, and cancellations.