Which type should I choose?
When you create a subscription, Repeats by offers three types: Regular interval, Season and Fixed dates. The type decides when you visit the customer — and how the subscription can be billed. This guide gives you the overview, so you pick the right one the first time.
The three types at a glance
| Regular interval | Season | Fixed dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| In one line | Same rhythm all year | A rhythm, but only in certain months | A few specific dates every year |
| Typical jobs | Windows every 4 weeks all year · office cleaning weekly · a monthly service on the 2nd Tuesday | Windows every 4 weeks Apr–Sep · lawn every 2 weeks May–Sep · snow clearing Nov–Mar | Gutters on 15/5 and 1/10 · solar panels twice a year · Christmas lights up and down |
| What you set | Weeks / Months + interval, start week | Weeks / Months + interval, start week, first and last month | Dates (or "N visits between X and Y") |
| Billing | Per visit · Every Nth visit | Per visit · Every Nth visit · Per season | Per visit · Every Nth visit |
The types apply to subscriptions of the Subscription kind. If you pick On demand, there is no fixed rhythm to set.
Three questions that settle it
Ask them in order. The first "yes" is your type.
- Do you visit in the same rhythm all year? → Choose Regular interval.
- Is there a rhythm, but only in some months of the year — or should the customer pay one fixed price for the season? → Choose Season.
- Is there no rhythm, just specific dates every year? → Choose Fixed dates.
Tip: Torn between Regular interval and Season? Ask yourself whether you take a break for part of the year. If you do, it's Season.
Regular interval
The same rhythm all year round. You set:
- Weeks or Months — whether the rhythm is counted in weeks or in months.
- Interval — for example every 4 weeks or every 2 months. Pick one of the preset buttons, or type your own number.
- Start week — the week the subscription begins.
With Months, the visit lands in the same place in the month each time, based on the start week. If it should always be on a particular weekday — say the 2nd Tuesday — tick Fixed weekday of the month, then choose Second and Tuesday under Position in the month.
Season
A rhythm that only runs in certain months. You set the same things as for Regular interval — Weeks / Months, interval and start week — and also pick the season under Season.
A season is always one continuous period. There are two ways to pick it:
- Pick a standard season — click one of your standard seasons above the months.
- Pick the period yourself — click the season's first month, then its last. The months in between are filled in for you.
Once the season is set:
- If you picked the period yourself, you can keep it as a new standard season with Save as standard season.
- To start over, click Clear.
- You edit the standard seasons under Settings → Planning → Seasons.
A season may run across New Year. Click November, then March, and you get November–March for snow clearing. All twelve months, on the other hand, aren't a season — if you visit all year, choose Regular interval.
If the visits should only fall in a few scattered months, say April and September, use Fixed dates instead.
Season is also the only type that can be billed Per season — one fixed price for the whole season. Billing is covered in Subscriptions: Recurring service jobs.
Fixed dates
No rhythm — just the dates the customer should be visited, repeated every year.
- Pick the months the visit should fall in. Each month straight away gets one concrete date, which you can move.
- If the visits should simply be spread out, enter a number and a period — for example "2 visits between April and October" — and click Fill in. The visits are spread over the period, at most one date per month, and replace the dates that were there before. Afterwards they are ordinary dates you can move one by one.
- Pick the cheapest weeks moves each date to the week of its month where the visit adds the least extra driving.
On Fixed dates, the Start week only decides which of the dates the subscription begins on — not when the visits fall.
Fixed dates can be billed Per visit or Every Nth visit. Per season isn't possible here, because there is no season to bill.
Related
- Subscriptions: Recurring service jobs — creating a subscription, billing, pausing and cancelling.
- Price configuration — the rounding rules, which also round the suggested first-season price.