topic Re: changing billing date in Subscriptions

changing billing date

tino1 — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:51:50 GMT

I've read on here that changing the billing date is done by cancelling your subscription, waiting for the account to change to a free account and then restarting your subscription on the day you want to be billed.

This is a pretty insane way of setting the billing date!

Anyway what I wanted to know is how long my account is likely to be out of action for if I change it to a free account. I don't think it is going to be much use to me when it is playing adverts and random track order.

My billing date at the moment is 15th and I want to change it to 1st. When is the best time to cancel my account if I want to have the free account for the shortest possible time?

Re: changing billing date

Billy-J — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 05:57:20 GMT

Hey @tino1, thanks for reaching out to the Community!

Sorry to hear that - I'll pass your feedback onto the right folks.

I'd recommend waiting until the 15th (cancel now and wait for the account to revert to Free on the 15th). After that, you would be using the Free plan for about 15 days and you can restart your Premium subscription on the 1st (or whenever date you'd like). That will then be your new billing date.

That's the way to get the shortest amount of time being on the Free plan.

You can cancel your subscription, and manage your account here. There is more info on changing your billing date here.

I hope this helps!

Re: changing billing date

Alex — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:08:06 GMT

Hey @tino1,

Thanks for reaching out about this in the Community!

Currently this is the only way to change your billing date.

You should cancel your Premium subscription any time before the 15th. Your account will remain on Premium until the 15th, after that it will switch to the free service. You'd have to wait until the 1st of the next month before you re-subscribe to Premium.

I know this is not the most convenient way to change your billing date for a service, but the Premium subscription is a form of a contract, which doesn't allow for the manual selection of a billing date, so it needs to be cancelled and signed again in order to achieve this.

Note that all your Songs, Playlists, Artists etc. will remain intact when your account switches subscription plans.

The Community's here if you have more questions 🙂

Re: changing billing date

tino1 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:45:18 GMT

Does anybody know what will happen to the other users on my premium family account when I turn off the subscription? I have two other family members on the account. What will happen to all our playlists and history on the application? Will it all reappear when I restart the subscription?

Re: changing billing date

MafeG — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:12:28 GMT

Hi @tino1,

Thank you for your reply.

Your music library is something totally independent from your subscription. That means it will stay exactly as it is, even if your subscription is canceled or reverted to free.

The same applies to the accounts of the other users on your group plan.

Let us know if you have any other questions!

Re: changing billing date

tino1 — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 08:32:57 GMT

Subscribed to family premium again and it has deleted all the family members. Maybe I'll have to wait for a while and they'll reappear but at the moment it's looking**bleep**.

Re: changing billing date

Jeremy — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 10:05:17 GMT

Hi @tino1,

Thank you for your reply.

In this case you need to invite them to your Family plan again. You can find instructions on how to do that here 🙂

Let us know how it goes.

Take care!

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Re: changing billing date

adzam016 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:48:50 GMT

My phone bill is a contract but I can change the date on that. My electricity is a contract, again, I can change payment date. Spotify needs to sort this out, it's a terrible excuse to avoid admin.

Re: changing billing date

iviik1 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:52:31 GMT

Is this seriously legit!? Let me get this right, so to change the billing date, I cancel and thus be without the premium sub for me and my family whilst I wait for the date I want and then re sub, but doing this palaver removes all the family members from the family plan, so I have to re-invite everyone! This is so backwards it's ridiculous.

Re: changing billing date

jessegrocock — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:06:36 GMT

@tino1 it's crazy that this still has not been resolved. At this point one of the more effective ways might be cancelling you Spotify premium and then signing up to YouTube premium including YT Music.