Bi-weekly Subscription: Next Billing Date Skips First Anchor Even with Cutoff Set

GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting
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Hi all,

I’m working with Shopify’s subscription APIs and have a selling plan configured as follows:

  • Billing interval: every 2 weeks (interval: WEEK, intervalCount: 2)

  • Anchor: Monday (anchors: [{ type: WEEKDAY, day: 1 }])

  • preAnchorBehavior: ASAP

  • I have also set cutoff: 0 in the delivery policy.

When a customer checks out on a Thursday (after the anchor day for the current cycle, example October 17th), I expect the next billing date to be the following Monday (the next anchor, e.g., October 20th). However, Shopify is setting the next billing date to the second Monday after checkout (e.g., October 27th).

Is there any way to configure the selling plan so that the next billing date is always the very next anchor after checkout, even for bi-weekly subscriptions? Or is this a limitation of how Shopify handles intervals greater than 1 with weekday anchors?

Any advice or workarounds would be appreciated!

Thanks!