Billing, trials and cancelling
Plans, the 14-day trial, changing or cancelling, invoices and failed payments.
The plans
- Free - $0 forever. Unlimited plans, two saved builds, every phase and price, core warnings, share and fork, basic pre-event checklist, all five free tools. - Pro - $5 a month or $49 a year (two months free). Unlimited builds, full rule set, spend log, price-drop alerts, per-event consumables tracking, printable build sheet and checklist, CSV export, private builds, build comparison. - Shop - $19 a month or $190 a year. Everything in Pro plus 25 customer builds, three seats, shop branding on shared builds, and sendable quotes.
The trial
14 days of Pro, no card required. It ends by itself and does not charge you. There is nothing to cancel.
Starting a subscription
From the billing page in your account. Payment is handled entirely by Stripe - we never see or store your card details.
Changing plans
Upgrade or downgrade from the billing page. Changes are prorated, so you pay or are credited the difference for the remainder of the period rather than starting again.
Cancelling
From the billing page, which opens the Stripe customer portal. You keep Pro until the end of the period you have paid for, then the account drops to Free. Your builds are not deleted - anything over the two-build Free limit becomes read-only, and you can export everything at any time.
Invoices and receipts
Emailed automatically when a payment succeeds, and available in the Stripe customer portal from the billing page.
Failed payments
We email you, and Stripe retries. If it keeps failing, the account drops to Free rather than being deleted. Update your card in the customer portal and it resumes.
Refunds
Within 30 days of a charge, email support@buildsideways.com and we refund in full without asking why. The full policy is on the refund page.
Questions
Does the trial need a card?
No. 14 days, no card, and it ends by itself.
What happens to my builds if I cancel?
Nothing is deleted. Anything over the two-build Free limit becomes read-only, and you can export everything at any time.
Other help articles
- Getting startedBuild your first plan in about a minute, with or without an account. Picking a chassis, choosing a goal level, setting a budget, and what to do with the result.
- Using the plannerSwapping parts, marking things owned, logging what you paid, and the pre-event checklist.
- Prices, fitment and confidence levelsWhy prices are ranges, what the confidence labels mean, and how to report something wrong.
- Your account and your dataPasswords, email changes, exporting your builds, and deleting your account.
- TroubleshootingSign-in problems, missing emails, the planner not loading, and what to send us.
- General FAQ
- The build order