# Can't renew account

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/cant-renew-account/272557>\
**Category:** Pro\
**Created:** [May 11, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/cant-renew-account/272557 "2024-05-11T16:25:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![karkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karkash](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/karkash)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/cant-renew-account/272557/1 "2024-05-11T16:25:14Z")

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Hi, I tried to renew my Pro account with the instructions that I got - I went into “Edit Plan settings” , but there is no “Manage Auto-Renewal” anywhere to be seen. By the way, why did the annual price increase by $50?  
Gilead

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**Author:** ![colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/colin/32/266703_2.png) [@colin](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/colin)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/cant-renew-account/272557/2 "2024-05-11T16:46:23Z")

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If you have previously turned off auto renew, there isn’t a way to turn it back on again. Your last year subscription ended 3 days ago. You are giving several days to get a new subscription going again, before SketchUp would stop working for you. Effectively you would want to start a new Pro subscription.

The prices went up 10 months ago. I’m not sure if we explain anywhere why they went up, but there is this FAQ page to read:

[https://help.sketchup.com/en/pricing-update](https://help.sketchup.com/en/pricing-update)

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**Author:** ![ateliernab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/ateliernab/32/198399_2.png) [@ateliernab](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ateliernab)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/cant-renew-account/272557/3 "2024-05-11T17:37:10Z")

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> [@karkash](#):
>
> By the way, why did the annual price increase by $50?

> **Inflation. click here for the long version. warning, may include approximative math.**
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> When the economy suffers a 20% inflation over 4 years, in particular in the energy sector (and servers love energy), you know it’ll end up changing the end user’s price.
> 
> it had not increased since 2019. [We made the math last year](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/insane-price-increase/232252/4), it’s actually below a constant yearly inflation, at least in [the US (19,2%)](https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2019?endYear=2023&amount=1) and [Europe (20,3%)](https://www.in2013dollars.com/europe/inflation/2019?endYear=2023&amount=1).
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> Trimble seems to have chosen to update pricing every few years, when many companies will go yearly or even shorter. So the step feels steeper but it is in fact a better deal than most. or… not as bad.
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> Had trimble followed the yearly inflation, we would have paid more straight away, roughly an extra 50 bucks : +12, +25, +37… and finally +50 instead of +0, +0, +0 and +50  
> (I know, inflation is not that constant but you get the idea. the end price is the same, but the cumulative price paid over the years is not)