Payment plans and subscription packages management

You can manage your free and paid subscription plans from the Store. To go to the Store click at your current payment plan in the top right corner of the M+ interface or click at the Store item in the left menu. A click on the StockSubmitter logo in Store always directs you to the home page. In the top right corner you can see your balance, an e-mail address and language settings.

What's a subscription plan and what's a subscription package?

A Subscription plan provides a single notable month (30-days period) of our service. The details are given in the subscription plan block.

an example of a payment plan block

When you use a subscription plan, a certain sum of money (a subscription plan fee) is being deducted from your balance at the end of every notional month. You may top up your balance for several notional months - the deduction is going to repeat every notable month until you change a payment plan to Free or run out of money (on balance). In the second case your current payment plan will be automatically downgraded to Free.
A subscription plan is a convenient way to try a paid service and check how many submissions do you need per month. Our system is very flexible: it allows you to purchase submits at retail or instantly upgrade your current payment plan and pay only the difference. Then you can plan the downgrade for the next month.
A Subscription package entails a discounted one-time purchase of Subscription plan for one, several months or several years (depends on the package).
A Subscription package provide a significant profit, especially if you submit a lot. Such Subscription packages as Professional and Unlimited are perfect for experienced contributors and studios. By purchasing a package for two years you're going to save a lot of money and forget about submits and balance monitoring. Starter and Lite are great solution for the beginners and if your submit consumption depends on season or photos in shooting.

You can't purchase subscription packages using the balance! Please, don't top up the balance to to purchase any subscription package! Read below how to do it right in the #Subscription packages unit.

What does a Notable month mean?

We use a "notable" month as a unit of time measurement. It is a 30-days period starting with the moment of any subscription plan activation or the last payment. It may be different from a calendar month (which may contain 31 or 28 days) and start at any day (depending to your last payment).

What is submit and how do we calculate them is explained in this article.

How to top up your balance

To purchase any payment plan (not a package!) for StockSubmitter/M+ or other services in M+ ecosystem you need to top up your balance in our store first.

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To do so click the balance in the top right corner store page and select "Top Up" in the list. Input a necessary sum then proceed with a Top Up button, select the payment system you'd like to use, proceed with the Choose button and follow the instructions. Note that there may be a delay between the payment and money coming on your balance. A specific time frame depends on the chosen payment system.

StockSubmitter and Microstock+ payment plan management

Here you see the current payment plan and available quantity of submissions. With the Increase Limit button you may purchase submissions at retail without changing your current payment plan. Just input the number of submissions you need and click the Purchase button. Our system offers the greatest benefit when the user submit files at many agencies at once and receive a maximum income from each file. Because we don't support a billing system we can't sell submissions for a single microstock agency.
To see how many submissions you've already used hover your mouse over Submissions Remaining button.
Change Plan button allows you to change your current M+/StockSubmitter subscription plan. As mentioned above, a certain sum of money (a subscription plan fee) is being deducted from your balance at the end of every notional month until you change a payment plan to Free or run out of money (on balance).

How to upgrade your current payment plan

You can instantly upgrade your plan at any moment. In that case a price difference will be taken from your balance but the next payment day won't change and submissions usage won't be reset. You get only the advantages of the more expensive payment plan (i.e. more submissions).

For example, you'd like to upgrade your current Lite payment plan to Casual. The last payment was at 6'th of December. Tomorrow will be 3'th of January. If you're going to upgrade your payment plan right now, a full monthly fee for Casual plan will be taken off your balance at 5'th of January (there are 31 days in January). Please, before upgrade, measure if you spend all submissions till the end of the notable month.

How to downgrade your payment plan?

If you're planning to switch to a cheaper payment plan, please, do it during the current notional month otherwise your payment plan will be automatically extended.
Any downgrade takes place at the end of the last paid notional month, but you may plan it at any time. To do so just click the Choose button beneath the payment plan you're interested in. The activation will be set to a specified date. The payment takes place at the last day of a current 30-days period so, please, make sure you have enough money on your balance. Otherwise you'll be automatically switched to Free payment plan.

Scheduled actions

This block describes events that will take place on your account in the nearest future. The date in this block is the last day of the current notional month. This block helps to keep enough money on your balance and top it up in time.

Subscription packages

A Subscription package entails a discounted one-time purchase of Subscription plan for several months. A two year Subscription package provide a significant profit comparing to monthly fee. Follow the news in our socials if you don't want to miss the additional discounts during the traditional annual sales. There are packages for M+Trends service and Cloud storage space too.

How to purchase the Subscription package?

To purchase a package click the Choose a Package button on the Store homepage then click the Show Packages button beneath any package.

• Select a suitable time period in the dropdown list with a right click.
• Read the terms of use and click OK button if you're agree.
• You'll be moved to the payment page.
• Select a preferred payment method from a dropdown list.
• If you have one or several promocodes, type or copypaste it in the form. You can cover up to 50% of your purchase with promocodes.
• Click the Agree button and follow the instructions.

Once the operation will be completed and we'll receive the payment the full price of the package (without a discount) will be put on your balance.

For example, you purchased the Casual subscription package for 6 notional months at the 3'th of January. You've paid 100 EUR and your balance has increased by 120 EUR. During next 6 months a monthly fee of 20 EUR will be taken from your balance: the next payment will be at the 2'th of February, then at the 4'th of March and so on till the end of the half year or the moment you run out of money on balance. Thus you pay a monthly fee as if you use a payment plan but we reimburse you the amount of the discount.

It is a very convenient system because you may change a payment plan at any time and do not wait for the end of your package. All money (minus paid months) will remain on your balance and you may spend it in our store for any service except for packages. When the period of your current package is over you'll continue using a payment plan with the same name and pay a monthly fee. If you don't have enough money on balance, the payment plan will be switched to Free.

How to upgrade a payment package

If you purchase a more expensive package than the one you already have, the duration and submission usage will be reset. The day when a full monthly fee is taken from your balance will be considered as the beginning of a current notional month. If you won a free year of subscription to a more expensive payment plan than the one you already have (а.е. during the Christmas event), a present be activated immediately, the duration and submission usage will be reset. There's no need to purchase another package when your present will expire. Remember that we've already reimbursed you the amount of the discount, so all you need to do is go to Payment Plans and choose any plan you like and wait for the activation.

How to downgrade a payment package

Money should appear on balance once your payment will be accepted by the payment system, but a monthly fee will be taken only at the end of the current notional month. A purchased payment package will be marked as Pending Activation. If you've won a free one-year package for a payment plan that is cheaper than your current package it shall be pending activation as any cheaper payment plan. There's no need to purchase another package when your present will expire. Remember that we've already reimbursed you the amount of the discount, so all you need to do is go to Payment Plans and choose any plan you like and wait for the activation.

How to get and use promocodes?

Every Christmas we perform a raffle among users. Make any purchases during a specified time period and get a Christmas present for every certain amount of money. There's a random prize inside of every present (to learn more don't miss the news during Christmas!). You may find promocodes for a certain sum in EUR. You can't top up your balance with it but you may use it to cover up to 50% of any payment package. To use any promocode, select any package you'd like to purchase. When you select the payment method, you'll notice a green I Have A Promocode! button. Click it, paste a promocode and click Apply. To use another promocode for the same deal, just paste it in the form and click Apply again.

MicroStock+ Trends

Learn more about Microstock+ Trends in this article
This block is quite similar to StockSubmitter/М+ payment plans block. Paid subscription extends automatically once a month using your balance. You may upgrade your payment plan and pay the difference just like when you upgrade a StockSubmitter payment plan. You may downgrade your subscription plan any time and it will be pending activation till the end of the current notional month.

How to vote for the next microstock agencies to add?

Adding and fully supporting next agencies to our services takes a lot of our time and resources. This is why we had opened a poll for all users. Every time you make a purchase at the Store you get an opportunity to vote for one of the microstock agencies or to add a new one to the poll.The poll is going to be there forever so don’t worry if you can’t vote right now. The current list is built based on the votes that have been already casted and it will change according to the new votes.

Frequently asked questions

How to cancel a paid subscription?

Go to the Store and open any payment plans (for StockSubmitter/M+ or M+ Trends) then select Free payment plan. This payment plan will be activated at the end of the current notional month.

I'm a Free subscription user but I want to try a paid subscription. Where do I begin?

Start with the approximate estimate of submissions you need per month and take a closer look at the low-cost payment plans and packages. You may upgrade your payment plan at any moment and pay only the difference. Learn more in #How to upgrade your current payment plan

How do I switch back to Starter package/how to save a Starter payment plan when the package has expired?

If you've been using a Starter payment package but upgraded or downgraded it you may only switch back by purchasing Starter package again. You may save this payment package as a payment plan (and continue using it for any quantity of notional months) if you have enough money on balance to pay a monthly fee.

I've purchased a one-year package but realized I don't need it. What do I do?

Purchasing a package doesn't mean that you must keep using it for the entire duration. You've got a full package price on your balance as if you've purchased several months of payment plan usage. So you may change your payment plan any time without losing any money.

I've upgraded my payment plan but used submissions weren't reset!

When you upgrade your payment plan, you only add submissions. Submissions you've used are being reset at the end of the current notional month.

For instance, let's say you're using Lite payment plan. You've got 250 submissions per month. You've already used 200 of them and you're about to purchase Casual payment plan. You pay 10 EUR to upgrade and now have 200 more submissions to use till the end of the current notional month.