The renewal date is the wrong date
Gyms, insurers, phone contracts and hosting companies often want notice before you can leave: thirty days, a month, sometimes more. A gym that charges on 2 February and wants thirty days’ notice has to hear from you by 3 January. A reminder the day before the charge arrives a month too late, which is how most subscription trackers work.
How Lapsa works out the date
- When you add a subscription, enter how many days’ notice the provider asks for, anywhere from 0 to 365.
- Lapsa takes the next charge date and counts back by the notice period. That is the cancel-by date.
- If that date has already passed, Lapsa moves forward one billing cycle at a time to the first charge you can still stop, and tells you which charge that is.
- A plan set not to renew has no later charge, so a window that has closed stays closed. Lapsa does not invent another one.
Month ends behave. A plan that charges on the 31st is charged on 28 February and goes back to the 31st in March, and the deadlines follow those real dates.
When the reminders arrive
- On the deadline day and the day before.
- A week before as well, when the notice period is 14 days or longer.
- At the hour you choose, counted in your own time zone.
- On your phone, by email and by push, so one of them failing does not cost you a charge.
Deadlines in your calendar
Lapsa’s calendar feed lists every cancel-by date as its own entry beside the renewals, so the date that matters turns up in the calendar app you already use. You can revoke the feed link whenever you like.
Try it without an account
The cancellation date calculator does the same arithmetic for a single subscription, in your browser, and gives you a calendar file for the deadline.