How to cancel Good Housekeeping

Cancel or stop renewal in your account

The subscription is unpaid, or you are turning off automatic renewal yourself.

1. 01Log in to the Good Housekeeping subscription account.
2. 02For an unpaid subscription, open My Orders and select Cancel from the Actions menu.
3. 03To leave the Continuous Service Program, which renews the magazine, change autorenewal in the account.

Hearst's terms also say you can cancel from the subscription account, or by the method in your order confirmation.

Cancel a paid print subscription

You pay for the magazine, and the account is print only.

1. 01Email GHKcustserv@cdsfulfillment.com, or call 1-800-888-7788.
2. 02Say you want the paid subscription cancelled.
3. 03Give the name on the account, and the mailing address or account number.

The same FAQ lists 1-800-274-4687 under Contact Customer Service. Good Housekeeping's customer service page lists the print line as 800-888-7788 and the print email as ghkcustserv@cdsfulfillment.com.

Cancel All-Access or GH+

You have All-Access, print plus digital, or the GH+ membership.

1. 01Email ghmembership@goodhousekeeping.com, or call 888-797-9927.
2. 02Say you want the All-Access or GH+ membership cancelled.
3. 03Give the email you used to buy it.

GH+ is a separate subscription from a print-only magazine. Cancelling one leaves the other in place.

How to know it worked

• —A print cancellation refunds the issues that have not been delivered.
• —An All-Access or other digital membership cancels future charges. It takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You can tell them sooner.
• —Hearst does not give a pro-rated refund on a digital membership, including the digital part of All-Access.
• —Keep the email reply. The FAQ does not describe an automatic cancellation receipt.

Watch out for

• —Print subscriptions and digital memberships renew on their own until you cancel.
• —Good Housekeeping publishes 6 times a year. A combined issue counts as two, as marked on the cover.
• —The first print issue usually arrives in 4 to 8 weeks. An All-Access member is told to expect the first issue about 8 weeks after the order.
• —If a recurring payment is declined, you have to give a new card promptly or Hearst cancels the subscription.
• —If the regular price changes, Hearst notifies you and you can cancel before the next bill. Stay, and the new price is charged next period.
• —The magazine app is for reading. Existing subscribers sign in with the email and ZIP on the subscription. Downloading it does not start or stop the bill.

Good Housekeeping refunds

• —Cancel a print subscription and Hearst refunds the issues it has not delivered.
• —Cancel a digital membership, including the digital part of All-Access, and you cancel future charges only. It ends at the close of the current billing period. There is no pro-rated refund.
• —Any other refund or credit is up to Hearst, and one refund does not oblige them to give another.
• —Ask for the refund in the same email or call as the cancellation.