Subscription - really annoying

So, I moved from Postbox to your subscription system a year ago. I got the note yesterday that my renewal payment had not gone through and that it would be recharged after 2 days. So I went to the payment system and updated the cc details. However, the processor showed my renewal order as cancelled and EM Client has downgraded me to the free version. I contacted the payment company and they quickly told me the order was changed from cancelled, but despite this, the software still says that it is restricted. If I look on your website, the only licence manager that I can find needs a ‘group name’ and I don’t have one of those. To rub salt into the wound, I can no longer get ‘VIP support’ because you have cancelled my subscription a day earlier than you said you would. I dislike subscriptions already, but the least you could do is actually have something approaching a working system!!

Seems to be sorted now, but still irritating to have to take the time.

Unfortunately, a lot of SaaS subscriptions have horrible subscription platforms. And this product is definitely no different… they’re still working through bugs and missing pieces (albeit I have to admit they are actually working through them) and this platform doesn’t have the same resources as Microsoft for their Outlook product… but…

IMO this client is hands down better then the “New Outlook” product; and not anywhere close to the “Classic Outlook” product, but it’s getting there and I honestly think Microsoft is going to kill the older product soon enough and I didn’t want to be caught having to deal with that shit ass fuck of a product called “New Outlook”.

So tl;dr: Yeah it does, you’re right… and I hope they make it better and not die off because the alternative, for me, is Microsoft’s product.

Spoke too soon.


Despite an email saying it was sorted, I’m still getting this on start up.

I was unimpressed when I switched, but they have reacted to some of the main things that got lost from Postbox, which is why I’ll keep paying. Probably!

@Kim_Fisher has been outright awesome with support and bugs for me.

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I realised (no guidance from mails) that in order to sort the activation out, I had to deactivate the free licence that had been issued via the help menu before using a code sent by the payment processor.

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