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Downgrading your account

Please note: Downgrading your account may result in losing access to certain features. 

  • Features of the Advanced Plan
  • Features of the Pro Plan
  • Add-Ons
  • Removing add-ons without downgrading your account
  • The downgrade process

It’s important to note that downgrading your account may mean that you lose access to certain features:

Features of the Advanced Plan

 The Advanced Plan has the following features:

  • Verified Mandates

  • Success+

Features of the Pro Plan

The Pro Plan has the following features:

  • Verified Mandates

  • Success+

  • Protect+

Add-Ons

Add-on availability by plan:

Merchant name on customer bank statement Standard
Advanced
Pro
Custom checkout experience Advanced
Pro



Downgrading from Pro or Advanced to Standard:

Add-on Process

Merchant name on customer bank statement 

As this add-on is available on the Standard plan, it will not be removed automatically. If you also wish to remove this add-on please reach out to our Support team.

Custom checkout experience (Custom Payment pages & Custom Notifications)

This add-on will be removed automatically, as it’s not available on the Standard plan. 

As you will no longer be able to use Custom Notifications, you will need to ensure that you have email addresses added for all customers on your account, so they can be notified by GoCardless of changes to their authorisation going forward. 

If you do not have email addresses for all your customers, we will not be able to downgrade your account to the Standard plan.

Downgrading from Pro to Advanced:

 

Add-on Process

Merchant name on customer bank statement 

As this add-on is available on the Advanced plan, it will not be removed automatically. If you also wish to remove this add-on please reach out to our Support team.

Custom checkout experience (Custom Payment pages & Custom Notifications)

As this add-on is available on the Advanced plan, it will not be removed automatically. If you also wish to remove this add-on please reach out to our Support team.

Removing add-ons without downgrading your account

If you wish to remove any of your add-ons from your account, without downgrading to a different package, you will need to reach out to our Support team.

The downgrade process

Important: Please be advised that the new plan will take effect next month if the request is submitted no later than two business days before the current month concludes.

To change the plan on your account, an administrator of the account will need to follow these steps:

  1. Click on Settings in the top right corner and select Account settings

  2. Click Edit account details

  3. Next, click on Account details in the top right corner

  4. From the navigation menu on the left, click select package

  5. Select the plan you wish to downgrade to by clicking on either Downgrade to Standard or Downgrade to Advanced (depending on the package you’re on)

  6. The administrator will then be taken to a page where they can submit the pricing plan change request. By clicking on the request a plan change button, the request will be submitted.

Once submitted, they will receive an email confirming that the request has been received. 

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