Hello Krileon, Nant,
Thank you for your fast responses. And thanks for offering to add it as an item for future consideration.
Yes, it's not about prorating price. We can think of the use case as subscription, e.g., to an online magazine.
Imagine different plans with lengths and prices, e.g., monthly, quarterly, annually, etc.
If I subscribe to a magazine for one month to try it out, and after 14 days I realize it's so good, I want to extend it immediately to get a better deal for a quarter or a year (better because the price per month would be lower).
I think it would be desirable from the businesses' (magazine's publisher's) point of view to not prorate the price (because it looks 'funny' the odd amounts it yields), and from consumers point of view it would not be good to not prorate it either, because if the new plan started 'today' lasting for one quarter, and i lose the remaining 14 days of the first month I signed up for because the plan starts now rather than following what I already paid for.
So, the choice I have as a consumer is to only extend my subscription by upgrading to a 'better' plan after my current plan has expired.
I hope this sheds a bit more light on the use case. I am glad to explain further.
Re Nant's question: I am not sure. Because I am not sure right now what it means to renew the initial plan. I think in this case it could mean that renewing the initial plan simply repeats it following the end of the current period of the initial plan. Maybe this is what happens already now. I have not tried that yet. So, in this case, if I subscribe for a one month plan, and then 14 days into the one month plan, i decide to renew the initial plan, I would expect my total plan duration to be for 1.5 months following the date of renewal (.5 month from initial plan, and 1 month from the renewed initial plan).
Let me know if I can explain more to help.
Thank you!