When do I pay?

It depends on which type of payment you're making. If you haven't derailed on a goal, you created your first goal within a week, you're not signed up for premium, and you haven't created any charges using the API, IFTTT or any other external service, then you won't be charged for using Beeminder until one of those conditions is met.

We send you an email letting you know whenever we're going to charge you, for any reason.

For the sake of clarity, here are some specific cases!

• If you don't create a goal after signing up, you will be charged after seven days.
  You can prevent this charge by creating any goal. You'll receive a warning before the week is up.
• When you derail on a goal or set up a charge via our API or IFTTT, you will be charged 24 hours later.
  If we get an email from you during that 24-hour period explaining why the charge is non-legit, we can usually just cancel the charge in those cases. (We advise replying within about 18 hours, given our average time to reply is roughly 6 hours.) That way you'll never even see the charge in your bank account.
  You can check whether you've already paid via your payments page.
• If your goal is already set up to archive, it will freeze and offer you the option of archiving your goal immediately. To do so, you must accept that you will be charged immediately.
  You'll see a modal asking for your agreement before this happens! You can't ask for a refund on the charge when you deliberately send it through early in order to archive your goal.
• Premium charges happen right away the first time you sign up for premium, but renewals also have a 24-hour wait period before the charge goes through.
  If you realize too late that you want to cancel, you can get in touch with us and we should be able to cancel the charge and remove the premium plan.

If you're ever in any doubt, though, just let us know and the support team will check in!

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