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Is cancelling as easy as signing up?
A checklist for a subscription sign-up and cancellation flow, built from what state automatic-renewal laws are reported to require. Tick what your flow does. The list beside it shows what to look at.
What happens to what you enter
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- What you type or tick is not stored and is not sent to us or to anyone else.
- Page visits are counted as the privacy policy describes.
- Close the tab and your answers are gone.
The checklist
Walk through your own flow
Open your checkout and your cancellation page in another tab and go through them as a customer would.
Tick what your flow already does
0 of 15 ticked
Nothing ticked yet
Tick each statement that is true of your sign-up and cancellation flow. Whatever is left unticked will be listed here with what the sources say about it.
A clean result here does not guarantee approval by a carrier or a registry, and it does not mean a business complies with any law or rule. Someone else decides that.
The rules
What the laws are reported to require
Benesch counts 28 states and the District of Columbia with laws or regulations on automatically renewing consumer subscriptions, as of August 2026. State laws differ. The items above describe the pattern, and several of the details are California’s, whose amended law applies to contracts entered into, amended or extended on or after 1 July 2025.
There is no federal click-to-cancel rule in force in the form the FTC adopted. The Eighth Circuit vacated the FTC’s click-to-cancel amendments in July 2025 on procedural grounds. Covington reports that the FTC restored the earlier rule text in February 2026 and opened a new rulemaking with an advance notice on 11 March 2026. Our research found no proposed rule after that.
Other rules exist beside the state laws. A vendor tracker lists a New York City click-to-cancel rule in effect from 1 October 2026; we have not checked that against the city’s own text.
Which of these apply to you depends on where your customers are and what you sell. That is a question for your counsel.
Sources
Reviewed 12 November 2026
The items come from law-firm summaries of state automatic-renewal laws, one practitioner’s memo and one vendor tracker. The statutes themselves were not opened. Where an item gives a number of days or years, it is the figure the law firm reports for the state named.
A fully ticked list does not mean a flow meets any state’s law. It means the common points have been looked at.
Consentra is software. Nothing on this site is legal advice, and using Consentra does not by itself make a business compliant with any law or carrier rule. Whether a rule applies to your business is a question for your counsel.
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A dated record of what each subscriber was shown.
Consentra Renewal Check reviews a checkout and cancellation flow against state automatic-renewal laws and re-checks it when the flow changes.