Estimated deadlines

When QuietBill knows a vendor but has not seen your contract, it can show an estimated cancellation deadline based on that vendor’s publicly published terms. Estimates help you see what is coming, but they never send reminders until someone confirms them.

Why estimates exist

A receipt tells QuietBill who you pay and when you renew, but almost never the notice period. For well-known vendors, QuietBill fills the gap with an estimate from one of two sources:

• the vendor’s public standard terms, with a View source terms link to the page it came from, or
• what other customers’ confirmed contracts for that vendor say, shown only when enough separate workspaces agree. These read “Estimated from other customers’ contracts” and never identify anyone.

Your own contract may differ. Negotiated order forms often have a longer notice period than the public terms, which is why an estimate is never treated as fact.

Where you see them

• An Estimated chip on Home, Subscriptions and the Calendar page (“(est.)” in the month grid).
• An estimated badge on the Auto-renewal clause panel, and Est. cancel by in the cancellation assistant.
• Turn on protection in the Opportunities panel on Home, listing estimates with their yearly cost.
• The monthly summary email, under deadlines to confirm.
• The calendar feed, where the event title starts with “Estimated:”.

Estimates send no reminders

No reminder emails, Slack posts or browser notifications go out for an estimated deadline. We’re keeping it is not offered for one either. Calendar apps that subscribe to your feed may still show their own reminder for the event.

Confirm an estimate

1. Open the subscription.
2. In the Auto-renewal clause panel, check the clause text, Notice days and Cancellation method against your own contract.
3. Correct anything that differs. If your contract has no notice period, clear Notice days.
4. Click Save & confirm. This works even if you changed nothing.

The badge changes to confirmed and reminders follow the normal schedule from then on.

Even better, upload your actual contract or order form. What QuietBill reads from your own document replaces the estimate completely.

Monthly and quarterly plans

Public notice periods usually apply to annual contracts. For a monthly or quarterly plan, QuietBill does not apply a notice period from public terms. The assistant shows Cancel anytime instead.

Related

• Confirm or correct a clause
• Upload contracts, invoices and screenshots
• Deadline reminders: when they arrive