Pricing Plans: Canceling Client Plans

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Important:
The article below refers to the Pricing Plans app. If you're looking for information about canceling Premium plans, please check this article.
With Pricing Plans, you can cancel a client's plan or allow them to cancel on their own. Additionally, if you do not receive payment from your client's payment provider, their plan can become canceled. You can check the status of your clients' plans from the Subscriptions tab of your dashboard.
In this article, learn more about: 
Before you begin:
  • Canceling a plan does not refund it. You must contact your payment provider to issue a refund. 
  • Failed payments automatically cancel a customer's plan. However, you can enable a grace period for your recurring subscriptions to give customers more time to resubmit payment before their subscription cancels.

Canceling a client's plan yourself

To cancel a client's plan yourself, you need to change the plan's status in your site's dashboard. You can choose when the cancellation happens – immediately, or at the end of the current payment cycle. 
When canceling free and one-time payment plans, it takes effect immediately. For example, if you cancel a monthly plan after 2 weeks use, the client does not have access to services/content for the last 2 weeks of the month. 

To cancel a client's plan:

  1. Go to Subscriptions in your site's dashboard.
  2. Click the relevant plan.
  3. Click Manage Subscription.
  4. Select Cancel Subscription.
  5. Select when the cancellation takes effect:
    • Cancel at end of this billing period: Plan continues until end of current payment cycle (for example, until the end of the month for a monthly plan). The plan does not renew.
    • Cancel immediately: Client's access to services stops immediately.
  6. Click Yes, Cancel.
Important:
Canceling a plan does not refund it. You must contact your payment provider to issue a refund. 
Tip:
You can undo cancelations for plans with the "Pending cancelation" status. If you undo the cancelation, the status of the plan returns to "Active". 

Allowing clients to cancel plans

You can allow clients to cancel a plan themselves through their private Members Area on your site. 
Before you begin:

To allow clients to cancel a plan themselves:

  1. Go to Pricing Plans in your site's dashboard.
  2. Create a new plan or click to edit an existing one.
  3. Scroll down to Settings.
  4. Enable the Allow Plan Cancellation toggle.
  5. Click Save to save the plan.
  6. Repeat steps 3 - 5 for any other plans for which you want to enable cancellation.

Plans canceled through payment providers

Failed payments automatically cancel a customer's plan. This can happen when a credit card is canceled or has insufficient funds. 
Additionally, clients may cancel payment directly through their payment providers:
  • PayPal: Clients may cancel recurring payments in their PayPal dashboard.
  • Credit Card: Clients may cancel their plan directly with their credit card company.

Viewing a plan's status

If you or your client cancels a plan, their plan's status updates to show that it's canceled or pending cancelation in the subscriptions tab in your dashboard.

Plans can display any of the following statuses:

  • Active: The plan can be used by the client.
  • Expired: The plan has ended.
  • Canceled: The plan was canceled and cannot be used by the client.
  • Pending Cancelation: The plan can be used by the client until the end of the billing period they paid for and then will change to "Canceled" status. 
    Note: You can undo cancellations for plans with the "Pending cancelation" status. If you undo the cancelation, the status of the plan returns to "Active".
  • Free Trial: The recurring plan has a free trial and is in its free trial period.
  • Pending: The plan has a future start date and is not yet active.
  • Suspended: The plan has been temporarily suspended.

FAQs

Here are some frequently asked questions about canceling clients' plans:

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