Do it yourself
Cancel Slack yourself
TLDR: A Workspace Owner opens Manage billing and chooses Downgrade to Free. Paid features stop and the free limits apply, while the workspace stays and the fee is not refunded.
Downgrade to the free plan
You are a Workspace Owner, or the member who upgraded the workspace. This is the paid plan bought from Slack, including one paid by card, ACH, Apple Pay, or invoice.
- 01On a desktop, click Admin in the sidebar. If you do not see Admin, click the workspace name.
- 02Select Manage billing.
- 03On the Overview tab, select Change plan details.
- 04Select Downgrade to Free, and choose whether it starts now or on the next renewal date.
- 05Click Continue to Checkout.
- 06Review the downgrade, then click Downgrade Slack.
Apple Pay on the Slack checkout page is a way to pay Slack. It is not an App Store subscription, so there is no separate Apple cancellation.
How to know it worked
- The change is finished when you click Downgrade Slack.
- Open Manage billing again and check the overview. It should show the free plan, or the renewal date you chose for the switch.
- If the paid plan is still set to renew, the downgrade did not finish.
Watch out for
- Downgrading to free removes paid features. Message, file, and app limits then apply.
- A member who does anything in Slack during a 28-day period counts as active, and Slack bills for active members. Someone you already paid for who goes inactive can leave a prorated credit.
- Any plan can be paid by credit card. US workspaces can also pay by ACH. US and Canada workspaces can pay with Apple Pay, which Slack is rolling out gradually.
- An annual workspace can pay by invoice, by check or direct deposit, if it has at least 3 active members and at least 58 members on Pro or 28 on Business+. Discounted plans, other than Slack for Education, need an invoice of at least $5,000 US Dollars. Invoice payments include a remittance fee.
- On an annual plan, new members can leave a balance that Slack charges on the last day of the month.
Slack refunds
- Moving from Business+ down to Pro can leave Slack credits for unused time on the paid plan.
- Those credits have no currency or exchange value. They cannot be transferred, and they are non-refundable. They expire when the paid Slack plan ends.
- The cancel steps for the free plan do not offer a cash refund.

