The federal Click-to-Cancel rule is gone. State auto-renewal laws now govern your checkout, your renewal notices and your cancel path, and they differ from California to Virginia to Minnesota. CancelCheck shows you exactly where you stand.
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Partly. Recharge, Loop, Skio, Bold and Stripe Billing handle the checkout consent box and put a cancel button in the customer portal. That is where their coverage ends.
Renewal-notice timing, how many screens your cancel path takes, whether your save offers are allowed in a given state, and whether you keep a proof-of-consent record are on you. None of those apps will tell you in writing that your flow fails Virginia or California. The scan does.
Renewal noticesCancel-flow screen countSave-offer rulesProof-of-consent recordsState-specific disclosures
Recurring revenue creates recurring compliance obligations. You spend to acquire a subscriber, spend to convert them, and spend to keep them, and a single non-compliant cancel flow lets a regulator or a chargeback undo all of it after the money is already yours.
Most subscription businesses check auto-renewal compliance the expensive way, if at all: an occasional outside-counsel review, a spreadsheet, and a hope that nothing changed. CancelCheck makes that check continuous, specific, and cheap enough to run before every state you enter.
A non-compliant flow lets customers reverse charges you already earned. In California, charges collected under a bad flow can be treated as an unconditional gift, refundable in full. The scan finds those gaps before your bank statement does.
Fixing a cancel path in a normal sprint costs a day of engineering. Fixing it under a demand letter or a chargeback wave costs weeks, legal fees, and refunds. Prevention is the cheap version of the same work.
A full outside-counsel audit runs into the thousands, so most businesses do it once and never again, even as laws change every quarter. A scan gives you a state-by-state read you can run as often as you ship.
The line is where compliance ends and exposure begins. Everything to the right of it is an extra step a regulator can count, and a reason a customer can dispute the charge.
In July 2025 a federal court vacated the FTC's Click-to-Cancel rule. That did not loosen anything. It handed enforcement to the states, and the states have been busy.
Under California's Automatic Renewal Law, payments collected without compliant disclosure and consent can be treated as an unconditional gift to the customer, with statutory damages and attorneys' fees available.
Virginia now requires a conspicuous online cancel option and that cancelling be as easy as signing up. A four-screen cancel path after a one-screen signup is a problem.
Minnesota limits the retention offers you can show during cancellation unless the customer agrees to see them. Most default app flows were not built with this in mind.
Every state you sell into gets a plain-language read: what the statute requires, what we observed in your flow, and the citation. No legal jargon, no 40-page memo.
Online signups must be able to cancel online without contacting support. Your flow requires an email to support to complete cancellation. Disclosure and consent box look compliant.
Cancelling must be as easy as signing up. Signup is one screen; cancellation is four screens including a survey.
Your 20% discount screen appears without the customer agreeing to see retention offers.
Clear pre-purchase disclosure of price, frequency and renewal. Online cancellation available.
No calls. Everything runs through the form and your inbox.
Two minutes in the form above. Screenshots or a Loom help, but a written description is enough to start.
Disclosure, consent, renewal notices, cancellation method and save offers, checked against each statute as currently in force.
Delivered by email within two business days, with the citation beside each item. If you want compliant template language or a licensed attorney's review, we will tell you what that costs.
CancelCheck was founded by a JD with BigLaw contract and legal-technology experience who kept watching small subscription businesses get caught by rules written for enterprises. The scan applies the same clause-by-clause discipline used on large commercial agreements to your checkout and cancel flow, in language your developer can act on.
Usually only the checkout consent box. Renewal reminder timing, save-offer restrictions, same-channel cancellation and post-purchase confirmations are on you, and they vary by state. The scan shows which pieces your app covers and which it does not.
It is how we learn what subscription businesses are running into. Some then buy our compliance templates or an attorney review. Most fix the gaps themselves with the list.
No. CancelCheck provides compliance information and general observations about your flow. It is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Where a legal opinion on your specific situation is needed, we refer you to a licensed attorney.
They are used only to produce your scan and are deleted within 30 days of delivery on request.
Yes. Select "All 50 states" and the scan covers every state with an automatic renewal or negative-option statute, plus general consumer-protection exposure in the rest.
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