Gifting Terms

Account & Service Control · Procedure

A recipient subscribed through the App Store or Google Play must cancel first and wait out the billing cycle

If the recipient's current subscription is through the App Store or Google Play, they must cancel that subscription and wait until the end of its billing cycle before redeeming the gift. This differs from a recipient who subscribes directly as a web subscriber, who can redeem at any time before the gift expires and have it extend the current term.

Supporting quotations

If a gift subscription recipient is subscribed through the App Store or Google Play, they must cancel their current subscription and wait for the end of the billing cycle to redeem their gift.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies only to recipients subscribed through the App Store or Google Play.
• Redemption is tied to the end of the billing cycle of the cancelled subscription; the one-year redemption deadline still applies.

Not stated here

• The terms do not say how the recipient redeems after the billing cycle ends, or what happens if the billing cycle ends after the gift expires.
• The terms do not say whether the app-store provider's own terms affect cancellation or billing.

Cross-references

• contrast (model-proposed): A recipient who already has a web subscription extends it by 12 months — A recipient already subscribed on the web can redeem at any time before the gift expires and extend the current term, while a recipient subscribed through the App Store or Google Play must cancel and wait for the billing cycle to end before redeeming.