Sign today, start later.

The commitment and the money, separated

When you assign a plan in MatPilot, you can now set a first payment date. The member gets the usual payment link, opens it, and saves their card, today, while the decision is warm. But nothing is charged. Their first payment lands on the date you agreed, and their billing cycle runs from that day forward, every month.

The member sees exactly what you promised, because the checkout says it in plain terms: nothing due today, the full price on the date, no asterisks.

Two situations it was built for

The October student. Someone ready to commit who cannot start yet: moving house, finishing a season, recovering from an injury, back from the holidays. You capture the yes while it is a yes.

The migration. You are moving your academy onto MatPilot and every member already pays on a different day of the month, because that is the day they originally joined. Set each member's first payment date to their existing pay day, send the links, and every subscription starts exactly where the old one leaves off. Nobody pays twice, nobody gets a surprise new billing day.

How you set it

It lives where you already assign plans: open the member, assign the plan, and pick a First payment date in the same sheet where you set the price. The default is unchanged, they pay as soon as they open the link. Add a date, send, done.

The small print, honestly

Three rules keep it predictable. The date must be at least three days out, so the link in their inbox cannot promise a date that has already slipped past. If they open a week-old link after the date has arrived, they are simply billed immediately, which by then is exactly what both of you want. And because nothing can be charged before the date, a plan's signup fee cannot ride on this checkout: MatPilot tells you so when you pick the date, and offers to email the fee as its own one-off payment link instead.