A checklist for cancelling forgotten subscriptions
Free trials that turned into paid plans, a service you used once, a membership you meant to stop. This checklist takes you from a statement export to a short list of things to cancel.
Your file is never uploaded. The subscription finder runs in your browser and uploads nothing. Its results are estimates to check against your statement.
Steps
- Gather exports. Download PDF, CSV, OFX, QFX, QBO or XLSX files for every card and account that pays for services.
- Run the finder. Drop all the files in at once and look at the yearly cost column.
- Sort into keep, cancel and check. Untick the ones you plan to cancel. The total updates, so you can see what you'd stop paying.
- Cancel at the source. Sign in to each service, or contact it, and cancel there. Save the confirmation.
- Watch the next expected date. After that date passes, check your statement to confirm the charge didn't come back.
Good to know
Cancelling is done with the service
The finder only reads your file. It can't cancel anything for you, and stopping a card payment may not end the contract.
Check renewal terms
Some plans bill a year ahead and won't refund part of it. Cancel before the next expected date to avoid another cycle.
Keep a record
Export the list to CSV and note the date you cancelled each one.
Questions
Will the tool cancel subscriptions for me?
No. It lists repeating charges so you can decide. You cancel each one with the provider.
What does unticking do?
It removes an item from the total, so you can see an estimated yearly figure for what you're keeping.
The finder reads PDF, CSV, OFX, QFX, QBO and XLSX files. Drop in a text-based PDF statement or an export file. Scanned (image-only) PDFs can't be read; the tool will tell you if yours is one.
This guide was written with AI assistance and reviewed against the tool's behaviour. Always review your output before using it.