Kenny Johnson
Kenny Johnson

How to Manage Your Subscriptions with Subchecker 📊

How to Manage Your Subscriptions with Subchecker 📊

Kenny Johnson

Manage your recurring subscriptions effectively with Subchecker. This tool helps you track renewal dates, monitor your monthly spending, and receive timely notifications to avoid unexpected charges.

Transcript

00:02
Hello, guys.
00:03
My name is Kenny, and I created Subchecker basically for myself initially.
00:12
And I'm really bad at keeping up with subscriptions.
00:17
I'm always trying different softwares.
00:22
and some companies are pretty good at reminding you when a trial period is over.
00:29
but some companies are not.
00:31
So I would always get this bill that I wasn't expecting.
00:37
So I needed to bill me something to keep track.
00:41
Spreadsheets don't work for me.
00:43
so I built this software and now I want to share it with you.
00:48
to determine for myself if this is a viable product that can I put this out on the market?
00:54
So during this beta period, everything is absolutely free.
01:00
you can use it and it'll be free for life.
01:02
So, let's give it a whirl.
01:04
So right now we're at the landing page, and you can go and create an account.
01:12
if you already have an account, you can click and login.
01:14
But we're going to.
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If you create an account, all you have to do is put your name, your email, and a password.
01:23
But I'm going to log into my demo account here and we'll go from there.
01:31
So when you log in, you come to the Dashboard up at the top.
01:37
there are a couple of options here.
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Refresh button, a, notifications button.
01:41
There are no notifications currently right now in my app, but when something is due at least five days, then you'll get an in app notification.
01:53
Plus, if you have it turned on, you get an email notification, which we'll get to in a minute.
02:00
you also have light mode and dark mode.
02:04
I'm gonna leave it on light mode for this video.
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and we'll go from there.
02:09
Over on the left side there some menu options right now on the dashboard, get all subscriptions, add a new subscription, some analytics, upcoming, subscriptions that are due.
02:23
There's a calendar.
02:25
this is notifications again, then settings.
02:28
Let's go into settings first and take a look.
02:33
So right here in Settings, it's really simple.
02:35
You got your name, your profile name, and your account email.
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This email cannot be changed.
02:43
You have an opportunity to set a budget, which we'll go back to on the dashboard so you can see what that looks like.
02:51
right now, my budget set at 150, then notifications.
02:56
So, by default, your notification email is the same as your profile or your account email, but this email can be changed.
03:06
So if you want to send your notifications to a different email, you can do that.
03:12
You, have to make sure this is turned on to get emails.
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You're going to get one five days before it's due and you'll get one the day of.
03:23
And then the in app notifications.
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You can turn those on or off.
03:28
If you make any changes here, make sure you click the save changes button.
03:34
And then if you need to change your password for any reason, you can go in, put your current and then create a new one.
03:41
Make sure you click Change password.
03:45
So we're going to go back to the dashboard here and take a look around.
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So this tells me the number of subscriptions that I currently have, which is 12.
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what is it costing me monthly?
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the annual cost and then, upcoming renewals.
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This month I have nine upcoming renewals.
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Now here's the budget and forecast.
04:12
So right now, again, my budget set for 150.
04:16
Right now it's at $204.
04:19
I'm $54.84 over budget.
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My projected annual spend $2,458.03.
04:30
And then I have this broken down into categories.
04:33
You can see some of the categories right here and this will tell you what you're spending your most money on.
04:39
In my case, I'm spending it on design.
04:43
So if you hover over, one of these, get the amount you're spending monthly.
04:51
Then I have streaming services, I have health, and so on and so on.
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so you'll see the categories when we go and create a new account.
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subscription type.
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You have monthly, annual and trials.
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So right now I'm at nine.
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Two annuals and one trial.
05:23
Upcoming renewals.
05:25
You can see Canva, Disney plus, Chat, GPT, LA Fitness, Netflix and Notion Plus.
05:36
So if you come into the next category, here is all subscriptions.
05:40
There's a list of all my subscriptions that I have here.
05:45
And it'll give you, you know, it's in a 30 day trial, it's in the design category, the ending four digits of the credit card or debit card that I used.
05:58
And I also added a note here.
06:02
Bring your attention to this little button right here, says show paused and canceled subscription.
06:07
So if I click on that, it will show me that I cancelled Paramount plus, and saved myself $12 or $11.99.
06:19
And then Hulu, I paused, pause.
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During the summer, all the shows are on break.
06:28
So maybe back in, October when some of them start coming back on, I may reactivate that and so on and so on.
06:39
So it just, just shows all your subscriptions as you can see there is let's look at Adobe Active Cloud.
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So if I click on it, I can go here and I can go in the back end and see the subscription name.
06:56
It's Monthly, it's in the design category.
06:59
And here's some other categories here.
07:02
if I wanted, I put the URL for the website and then I put a unique website here for cancellation link.
07:12
And I'll show you how that works in a second.
07:15
the initial costs, the renewal costs, the billing cycle, the last four of the card I use, when the next due date is and any notes that you want to put in there.
07:30
So I go back here, I scroll down and let's just say I come to the point where, okay, it's almost due, I want to cancel.
07:41
If you put a URL in that cancellation box, if you click this button, it'll take you right to that page you need to go to to cancel that service.
07:51
So that becomes really handy when it's time to and we're going to let you know five days before.
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Remember when it's due.
08:03
a new subscription here.
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let me see.
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I don't have one in mind, but let's just do I like an app called Abacus AI.
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It's a monthly subscription.
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it's in the AI, category.
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So let's click AI I'm not going to put the URL because I don't have it off the top of my head.
08:28
But HTTPs.
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If I knew the cancellation link I'd put it right there.
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The initial cost was $20.
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The renewal cost is $20.
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It's monthly.
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I use car 1234.
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Next renewal is 09012026 and add any notes that you want to add here and then just click the create button and now you have new subscription here.
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It has a note.
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it's due monthly.
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it's doing 12 days.
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so analytics now I'm $224 over budget.
09:30
Excuse me, is my current monthly spend and $74.84.
09:35
So I should be canceling, not adding.
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But you still see the same thing you see in your dashboard.
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in the analytics.
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Any upcoming subscriptions due in the next 30 days.
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If you click on that, you'll see all the list of upcoming subscriptions you have calendar, you can see your accounts listed calendar view.
10:05
if you click on a date, scroll a little bit, you can see what's all in that date.
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This has multiples, so if I click on this one, even though I'm in August, I need to go to September.
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Click on it.
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And these are all four renewals due in September.
10:25
And here they all are showing up here.
10:31
again, categories, color coded, important notifications.
10:37
Again, none showing right now.
10:39
And we've been in the settings category, so the last thing I'd share with you is during this beta.
10:48
I'm looking for any feedback you can give me.
10:52
There's a, couple of categories here, general feedback, if something isn't working, you click on something, nothing happens or whatever the case may be, maybe a little bug.
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here and let me know what it is.
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If you have any feature suggestions.
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I'm open to any feature suggestions and just plain other.
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so feedback is important to me right now, so whatever you can share would be greatly appreciated.
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I hope you enjoy the product, it works for you.
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and let me know any feedback that you may have.
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Appreciate your time and thanks very much.
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