Plans and Pricing
How much does Preceden cost?
See our pricing page for a detailed comparison of the plans.
What currency are your prices in?
Our prices, and every charge, are in US dollars (USD). If your card is in another currency, your bank converts the charge, so the amount on your statement depends on its exchange rate and any foreign transaction fee it adds.
What is included in the free plan?
The free plan lets you create an unlimited number of timelines with up to 10 events on each one. You can customize how those timelines look, export them to PDF, PNG, PowerPoint, CSV, and Excel, share them with a link, and embed them on other sites.
The 10-event limit applies to events you add yourself. Timelines built with Timeline Maker AI are often longer than that, and a free account keeps every event the generator created. While a timeline is over the limit you can still open it in the editor, change its appearance, edit the generated events, and export it, but adding your own events or renaming the generated ones requires a paid plan.
A few features are reserved for our paid plans. Importing events from a spreadsheet requires a paid plan, and adding your own logo, inviting collaborators, and setting up a custom domain require our Pro plan. Timelines you export on the free plan also include a small Preceden logo, which our paid plans remove.
What payment methods do you support?
We accept credit cards and PayPal, and we can invoice an organization for payment by bank transfer. We are not able to accept checks.
Do you provide a receipt/invoice?
Yes. After you pay, head to Account > Settings and click Download Invoice next to the payment in the Charges row. When you download it, you can add custom information such as your organization name or VAT number.
Can I get an invoice before I pay?
Those Download Invoice links are receipts for payments that have already gone through, so there is nothing to download ahead of a renewal. If your organization needs an invoice up front, to raise a purchase order or to get the payment approved, email [email protected] with the billing details it should carry and we will send you one.
How do subscriptions work?
When you pay by credit card, your subscription renews automatically, monthly or yearly to match the plan you bought, until you cancel it. You can cancel anytime under Account > Settings by clicking Cancel Subscription in the Auto Renew row, and you keep access for the rest of the period you already paid for.
Will you email a reminder before renewal?
For yearly subscriptions, yes: we email you a reminder 15 days before the renewal. Monthly subscriptions renew without a reminder, since the charge repeats every month. Either way, we email you a receipt after each payment goes through.
What if a renewal payment fails?
If we can't charge your card when your subscription renews, we email you a link to update it. You can also update it yourself under Account > Settings by clicking Update in the Card row.
If the payment never goes through, your subscription expires. Your timelines stay in your account, but you can't add or edit events on them until you renew or your account moves to the free plan (see below).
What does an expired subscription look like?
Before the end of a paid period we put a reminder across the top of the timeline editor saying when your subscription expires, with a Renew now link. It appears two weeks ahead on a monthly plan and six weeks ahead on a yearly one, and only when there is no automatic renewal lined up, so an active credit card subscription never shows it.
Once the date passes, nothing is deleted: every timeline, layer, and event is still there, and the reminder changes to say the subscription has expired. What stops is editing. Add Event opens our plans instead of the event form, clicking an event on the timeline no longer opens it for editing, and the Bulk Editor answers that you need a paid plan. Renewing restores all of it.
The lock follows whoever owns the timeline, not whoever is looking at it, so collaborators and teammates lose editing on an expired owner's timelines too. On a team plan, members see a red banner naming the account owner's email address, since renewing is the owner's to do.
What happens if I don't renew?
About two weeks after your subscription expires, we move your account to the free plan, and editing comes back within its limits. A timeline with 10 or fewer events works like any free timeline. On a timeline with more, you can still edit your events, except for their names, but you can't add new ones until you upgrade. See Number of Events on a Timeline for how the limit works.
All Preceden accounts are subject to our Cancellation Policy.
For paid accounts, if you don't renew and don't log into your account at least once a year, your account and timelines are deleted automatically. We email you 60 days before that happens and again 7 days before. To keep your account open, log back in or renew your subscription.
Do collaborators have to pay?
Our Pro plan includes a collaboration feature that lets you invite other people to edit your timelines. The people you invite edit your timelines for free, whatever plan they are on. Timelines they create in their own account follow their own plan, so the free plan's limit of 10 events per timeline applies there until they upgrade.
How do team plans work?
A team plan puts several people on one account. Everyone signs in with their own Preceden account, and everyone on the team can work on all of the team's timelines, including the ones the other members create.
You run the team under Account > Manage Your Team, which appears only on plans that include more than one user. See Add Team Members to Your Account for how to invite someone, how many users your plan covers, what the person you invite sees, and how to free up a seat.
Do you offer refunds?
Yes, we offer a 100% refund for 15 days after any payment, including renewals.
Email [email protected] and we'll issue you a full refund.
Do you offer any discounts for nonprofits?
No, we've tried to price all of our plans so that they're affordable to everyone.