Subscription Audit Printable | Cancel Checklist by Last Used | Recurring Payment Tracker Undated Sheet

You are not unaware of your subscriptions. You could list most of them right now. Knowing was never the problem.

The problem is deciding, and then actually cancelling — and a list of prices does neither. That is why almost everyone who buys a subscription tracker fills it in once, feels briefly organised, and cancels nothing.

This one is built around the two things that stand between you and the money.

IT LEADS WITH LAST USED, NOT PRICE

The decisive column is not what a thing costs. It is when you last opened it. Something cheap and daily is fine; something dear and untouched since spring is not. So the sheet asks for last-used first, and the price second — which is the reverse of the obvious layout, and it is deliberate. Filling in the money first quietly decides the answers, because a small number looks harmless and a large one looks unavoidable.

COST PER USE

The number nobody works out and everybody understands the moment they see it. Divide what a thing costs by the number of times you opened it this month. In the worked example on page five, one row comes out at 22 a go. Four more were never opened at all, which cannot be divided — and that is the loudest answer on the page, because there is nothing to weigh it against.

The bottom of that table is the argument for keeping four of them. An audit that cannot say that is just a sales page for cancelling.

FOUR VERDICTS, AND MAYBE IS NOT ONE OF THEM

Keep, Cancel, Pause, Decide. Pause is the honest version of "I might use it again" — cancel it and write the month you will look again. Decide is allowed exactly once per audit, and only with a date beside it; without a date it is not a verdict, it is a shrug. Every row gets one, and a row without one is a row you will feel exactly the same way about in six months.

THE CANCEL LADDER

The reason people do not cancel is friction, and friction is rankable: two taps in an app, an account page, an email you have to write, a phone call somebody will argue with. Do them in that order. In the example, four of the seven can be done tonight without opening a laptop. Starting with the phone call means starting with the one you will put off — and then none of the others happen either.

Plus the exact sentence to send for the ones that need an email, and the four things worth knowing before you send it, including why you check the bank in two months rather than one.

SIX TRAPS

The annual one bought in a sale. The family plan where you are the payer. The one kept for a single feature. The trial that converted while you were not looking. The one that is cheaper than cancelling feels. And the one you are embarrassed to admit you do not use. Not one of these is about not knowing the price — every one is a decision that never got made.

AND THE PAGE MOST AUDITS SKIP

Money you stop spending does not arrive anywhere. It is absorbed, quietly and completely, unless you move it on the day the first cancellation lands. The last page is about that, and about diarising the next audit for six months rather than one, because nothing changes in a month and an audit you run too often is one you stop running.

WHAT YOU GET

Eight pages, twice — a color edition and an ink-saver edition with the tints replaced by hatching for a mono printer. Both carry exactly the same words; only the ink changes.

The audit sheet — twelve rows, seven columns
How to fill it in, in the order that matters
The same sheet filled in, so you can see how
The four verdicts, and why maybe is not one
Cost per use, and the two ways a row fails
The cancel ladder, and the sentence to send
Six traps, and why they survive an audit
After the audit, and what this is not

NO RED. A traffic light is the obvious code for keep, think and cancel — so this one runs sage, brass and clay instead. A row you are cancelling is not a mistake you made, it is a decision you are finally getting to make.

WHAT IT DELIBERATELY IS NOT

No budget: it never asks what you earn or what you should spend. No recommendations — nothing here says which services are worth it, because that is not a thing a page can know about you. No app, no account, no login: one page you print, one pen, and a bank statement you already have. And no dates and no year, so it is right whenever you run it.

If the surprise is not what you subscribe to but when it all leaves, that is a timing problem rather than a subscription one, and the Bill Calendar is the page for it.

DETAILS

Topic: Subscriptions, recurring payments, free trials, cancelling, cost per use, money decluttering

Target audience: Anyone with more than about six recurring payments who suspects at least two of them are dead — and anyone who has filled in a subscription tracker before and cancelled nothing

Product type: Printable PDF, two editions

Format: PDF

Activity: About twenty minutes with a bank statement open, then one cancellation a month, then again in six months

Theme: Three colours meaning three decisions, not three quantities: sage for keep, brass for hold, clay for stop. Staleness is kept in grey on purpose so a fact about time can never be mistaken for a decision about money. Undated — no dates and no year in either file

Language: English (international spelling)

Usage rights: Personal use, and use with your own clients if you work with people. Print it as many times as you like. Not for resale, redistribution, sharing or repackaging, and not to be sold as a template, a bonus, a lead magnet or part of a course

Page count: 8 pages, in two editions

Dimensions: 8.5 × 11 in US Letter portrait. Prints on A4 with margins to spare — choose Fit to page rather than Actual size
Included items: 1. The Subscription Audit (8-page PDF) 2. The Subscription Audit, ink-saver edition (8-page PDF) 3. A read-me

Colour scheme: Sage
#4E644A for keep, brass
#CBA054 for hold, clay
#A76A53 for stop, on warm paper
#F8F6F1

Software required: Any PDF reader. Nothing to install, no account, no subscription — which would be a poor look on this one

Required materials: A printer and a pen, and a bank statement

Author credentials: Written and drawn from a blank file by Uprising Lab Designs — nothing resold, no PLR, no stock assets, and the typefaces are under the SIL Open Font License. A 122-check audit verifies that every figure on the pages is recomputed from the worked example rather than asserted, that the example is internally consistent, that every cost-per-use figure matches its own division, and that the colour and ink-saver editions carry identical text. Both editions were checked for text overlap, margin bleed, glyph coverage, rules crossing type and page overrun, then rendered and read twice. AI assisted drafting and layout; the editorial and design judgement are the studio's own

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