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Billing & plans

View your plan, seats, and next charge, manage your subscription in the Stripe Customer Portal, and see what happens on upgrade, downgrade, and cancel.

Settings → Billing (/settings/billing) is where you see your current plan, manage your subscription, and keep your payment method up to date.

Before you start
Role
OwnerAdmin

Billing is managed by Owner and Admin under Settings → Billing. The actual subscription changes happen in the Stripe Customer Portal.

What's on the billing page

  • Current plan with a status badge: Trial, Active, Past due, or Canceled.
  • Trial countdown while you're on the 14-day trial.
  • Seats used vs. limit for your plan.
  • Next charge — amount and date.
  • Default payment method on file.
  • Recent billing events — your subscription history.
  • A past-due banner when a payment has failed.

Plans

PlanMonthlyAnnualMembers
Free$0$03
Studio$19/mo$15/mo ($180/yr)10
Agency$39/mo$31/mo ($372/yr)25

Annual billing saves about 21%. Teams over 25 members can email us for a custom plan. For a deeper look at what each plan unlocks, see Plans and limits.

Seats are flat-fee. Your bill doesn't change as you add members within your plan's cap — you pay the plan price whether you've filled 1 seat or all of them.

Founders deal: the first 100 active annual teams get 50% off forever — annual plans only.

The 14-day trial

New workspaces start on a 14-day trial with no credit card required. The billing page shows a countdown. During the trial you'll see an Add payment method call to action so you can add a card before the trial ends and keep your paid features running.

Manage your subscription

Open Settings → Billing

Go to Settings → Billing.

Open the Stripe Customer Portal

Click Manage billing. This opens the Stripe Customer Portal, where you can:

  • switch plan or billing interval (monthly ↔ annual),
  • cancel your subscription,
  • update your card, and
  • download past invoices.

Add a payment method

If you're on the trial, click Add payment method to add a card before it ends.

Upgrade, downgrade, and cancel

Your effective plan is determined by your subscription state:

Subscription stateEffective plan
Trialing or ActiveYour plan
Past dueYour plan during a 7-day grace period, then drops to Free
Canceled or noneFree

Your data is never deleted on downgrade. Paid features simply lock — your clients, projects, time entries, and invoices stay intact. If you upgrade again, everything unlocks.

A few rules to know:

  • A downgrade that would break a limit is prevented in the app. For example, you can't drop to a plan with fewer seats than you currently use until you're back under the cap.
  • Cancelling defaults to end-of-period — you keep your paid plan until the current period ends, then move to Free.
  • Past due keeps you on your paid plan for a 7-day grace period. Update your card in the Stripe portal to clear it before the grace ends.

Troubleshooting

  • Payment failed / past-due banner. Open Manage billing and update your card in the Stripe Customer Portal. You have a 7-day grace period before dropping to Free.
  • I can't downgrade. You're likely over the target plan's limit (usually seats). Remove members until you're under the cap, then try again. See Members and roles.
  • A paid feature disappeared. Check your effective plan above — if you're past due or canceled, features lock until you're active again. Nothing is deleted.
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