This article guides you through renewing subscriptions and upgrading products by creating an order, setting specific dates for renewals and upgrades.

This tutorial demonstrates how to renew a subscription and upgrade a product by creating an order. To upgrade the product, you will remove the product then add a replacement product on the same date.

In this tutorial, you will set the following dates to today's date:

• The date when the order is signed

• The contract effective date of the renewal

• The service activation date of the renewal

• The customer acceptance date of the renewal

You will set the following dates to a specific upgrade date:

• The contract effective date of the product upgrade (addition and removal)

• The service activation date of the product upgrade (addition and removal)

• The customer acceptance date of the product upgrade (addition and removal)