Plans & limits
What each CertWatchr plan includes, how to upgrade, change or cancel, and what happens to your domains when a payment fails or you downgrade.
CertWatchr has four plans: Free, Starter and Pro for one person, and Team for a group of at least three. Prices are on the pricing page.
What each plan includes
| Capability | Free | Starter | Pro | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monitored domains | 3 | 50 | unlimited | unlimited |
| People on the account | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 or more |
| Alert threshold (days before expiry) | fixed at 30 | 1–365 | 1–365 | 1–365 |
| E-mail alerts and summary e-mail | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Notification centre | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Choose which alerts you receive | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| CSV import and export | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Health score | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| CT log monitoring | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| REST API | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Custom check schedule per domain | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Webhooks (JSON, Slack, Teams, Discord, …) | ❌ | ❌ | up to 10 | up to 25 |
| Client report links | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Team members and roles | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
On a team, everyone gets every Team feature. Subscription and invoices belong to the owner alone.
The Team plan
Team is Pro for a group: everything in Pro, for everyone on the team, plus the team itself — one account, the same domains, every alert to everyone. See Teams.
It is billed per person, the owner included, and for at least three people:
- A team of one, two or three pays for three. Everything works from the moment you subscribe; you do not have to wait for anyone to accept.
- From the fourth person on, each person who accepts an invitation adds one to the bill. Invitations are free until then.
- When someone leaves or is removed, the bill goes down again, but never below three.
- A change in the middle of a period is charged or credited for the rest of it on the next invoice. Settings → Plan & billing shows how many people you are paying for.
Teams set up on Pro before the Team plan existed keep working as long as the account stays on Pro. Changing plan ends that; from then on a team needs the Team plan.
Upgrade
- Go to Settings → Plan & billing.
- Choose Starter, Pro or Team, monthly or yearly, and pay.
- Your new plan is active within seconds.
Change plan or cancel
Use Manage subscription on the same page for everything after that: switch between Starter, Pro and Team or between monthly and yearly, update your card, or cancel. Your existing subscription is changed; you never pay twice.
Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for — the page shows the date. Until then you keep everything. Afterwards the account is on Free. Nothing is deleted: subscribe again and your domains, history and settings are all still there.
What happens when you downgrade
| What | What happens |
|---|---|
| More domains than the new plan allows | All keep being checked. You cannot add more until you are below the limit. |
| Alert thresholds | Stay as they are until you edit the domain; then Free's fixed 30 days applies. |
| Webhooks, API, CT monitoring | Stop at once. Your webhooks stay saved and work again after an upgrade. |
| Client report links (leaving Pro or Team) | Stop working at once. They stay saved and work again after an upgrade. |
| A team (leaving Team) | Is paused: members are back on their own accounts and nothing is deleted. Subscribe to Team again and it carries on. See Teams. |
| Which alerts you receive (moving to Free) | Every alert is switched back on. Your choices are kept for when you upgrade. |
If a payment fails
Nothing stops straight away. You get an e-mail, the billing page shows a warning, and the payment is retried over the next few days. Update your card under Manage subscription and the next successful attempt clears the warning. Only if every attempt fails does the subscription end and the account move to Free.