Ability to Pause/Skip Payments in Recurring Bills & Subscriptions

Flopbot

Greetings,

Please consider adding the ability to Pause an Entire Subscription or simply Skip an Individual Transaction.

Use cases:

• Pausing: We have subscribed to several food box subscriptions & streaming services over the years and find ourselves pausing them from time to time for 1-12 months while we try other subscriptions, go on vacation, clean out the refrigerator, focus our money elseware, etc., etc., etc.  As best I can tell, the only existing option is to delete the entire series - loosing all the linked transactions - and then recreate it later and relink everything.  That can be a real pain as there could potentially be lots of transactions in lots of various accounts.

• Skipping: This happens more with CC Bills, but I have occasionally seen it with other recurring bills as well.  If nothing is due, I simply want to skip the current transaction.  Full disclosure, I have yet to press [Delete Transaction] since I'm a bit scared of what it will do.  "Delete" sounds awfully final.  "Skip" (which is the language in Quicken Desktop for this function) is certainly more friendly.

Does [Delete Transaction] simply skip the current transaction and leave the series alone?

uildvek

+1. This would be especially useful to stop the recurring bill / subscription alerts i get on the spending plan page every month. 

alx

Seems the only way is to "End Series" which keeps the transactions around

But there is no way to start up the series again. I now have 3 series all named the same thing, 1 active, 2 cancelled (ended)

Flopbot

To follow up on my initial post for anyone who's reading along.  I finally built up the nerve to press "Delete" on the Spending Plan section and I can confirm that it simply skips that one transaction.  It leaves the recurring transaction alone and it indeed shows up again the next month.

For Simplifi's consideration, "Skip" would certainly be more friendly language to use in the Spending Plan.

jaytek

I would like the ability to skip an upcoming payment as well. It has happened to me a few times where I don't have a card payment that month because of an extra payment. But bill connection only picks up what was reported on the last statement and is not aware a payment isn't due.

RobWilk

This works for me already, I can have a recurring bill/subscription - From the account (i.e. checking or whatever) I can see the upcoming transactions across the top, and at least on the web (I just did it yesterday), I press the three dot menu and select delete reminder.  This deletes the one reminder, not the whole series.  It seems logical to me.

uildvek

Oh that's good to know. I think it would be even better if we could pause a subscription continuously until resumed. In my case I had to stop a subscription for 6 months. It would be easier to pause it than to delete the reminder every month. 

Nephthys

I also would love the ability to pause bills and subscriptions. I've now resorted to editing the reminders for my streaming providers and changing them to dates in the future after learning the hard way that you can't re-activate a deleted subscription.

I was going to post this as an idea. I'm surprised this idea doesn't have more traction.

SRC54

I agree it would be nice to have the ability to pause. You could then manually unpause when ready. People often pause video subscriptions such as Netflix, etc. Yes, you can end them and start them again but I hate that clutter.

There are workarounds. I have my yard cut every two weeks but in early October, I go into the series and change the next date to March 15.

RobWilk

"Pause" or "Suspend" or maybe an "Un-End Subscription" (after ending it) would be good options, any of them.

I agree, there are subscriptions that i donj't always keep month - to - month that I would like to re-enable without re-creating or losing track of.

EL1234

Same here. It would work for school-related expenses that aren't spent over the summer, for example.

Jenny T

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/56426#Comment_56426

This is also how I handle paused subscriptions as I don't want the clutter if/when I resubscribe or restart a service. But I'd really love a Paused/Inactive status so they aren't mixed in with my truly active series, especially since there aren't good sort or filter options on the Series list. I'd also be ok with cancelling them if the option existed to reactivate the same series again.

travismartin92

I would also like the ability to pause a recurring transaction.