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Upgrade or downgrade
Change plans without losing data.
Only owners and admins can change the plan.
Start a subscription
- Open Billing and pick monthly or annual.
- Click the Choose button on the card you want (for example Choose Growth).
- Stripe Checkout opens. Complete payment.
- You're redirected back. The new quotas are applied as soon as Stripe confirms the payment, usually before you are back on the page.
On an account without a lifetime tier, a new subscription starts with fresh counters: usage is reset at checkout and a new cycle starts that day. On an annual plan, that day of the month becomes your monthly reset day. If you hold an AppSumo lifetime tier, subscribing works differently; see Lifetime license holders below.
Switch plan
If you already subscribe, there are two ways to move to another plan, up or down:
- Click Choose on another plan's card in Billing. Your subscription is switched in place: no second checkout and no second subscription.
- Open Manage subscription and change the plan in the Stripe customer portal.
Either way, Stripe prorates the price difference and the new plan's limits apply at once, as soon as Stripe confirms the change (usually within a minute). The usage already counted this cycle stays counted against the new limits: a plan switch never starts a fresh quota. The counters reset at your next renewal as usual, or on your monthly reset day with annual billing.
Moving down lowers the limits at once too. If you have already used more than the smaller plan allows this cycle, new articles and keywords can only come from your packs and extra keyword balance until the next reset.
Pack articles and extra keywords you bought are untouched by any plan change. Delivery is the same on every plan, so a batch already in flight simply finishes.
Cancel
- Billing, then Manage subscription.
- In the Stripe customer portal, cancel the subscription.
- A cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Until then, you keep your current quotas.
- When the subscription ends, the account returns to Free, or to your lifetime tier if you hold an AppSumo license.
What happens to your data
Nothing changes: articles, keywords, sites and brand profiles stay. Only the quotas change. If your new plan has fewer sites than you currently have connected, no site is removed; you just can't add more until you delete some or upgrade. The same goes for team seats: nobody is removed, but new invitations are blocked while you are over the cap.
Lifetime license holders
If you bought Quibo on AppSumo and add a subscription, the two are never summed: for each limit the higher of your plan and your lifetime tier applies, and a feature is on if either includes it. No limit drops below your lifetime tier's, whatever plan you pick.
- Subscribing on top of your tier: the higher limits apply at once. A plan with more articles a month than your tier starts fresh counters; any other plan keeps the usage already counted in the current cycle. From then on the counters reset with the subscription: on each renewal payment, or every month on the day the subscription started if you pay annually.
- Switching plan while you hold a tier works as described in Switch plan.
- When the subscription ends: you return to your lifetime tier, not to Free, and the counters follow the anniversary of the license activation again. If an anniversary has passed since they last reset, they start fresh at once; otherwise the usage already counted stays counted until the next anniversary.
See Lifetime deal.