Can I get monthly membership for just 1 month a few times a year?

[meloncholy_]

I don't (unfortunately) use Creative Suite products very much at the moment, but I do want to occasionally and get quite high value from them when I do. I would probably like to take out a single month's subscription (and then cancel) to Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign 2-4 times a year in total.

It looks as though I can do this through the month-to-month membership, but I'd be grateful if someone could confirm this is an "approved" (if slightly odd) way of having a Creative Cloud subscription.

[kglad · Accepted solution]

yes, you can do that.

you need to be proactive and cancel in a timely fashion or your month-to-month subscription will automatically renew for the next month.

Manage your Creative Cloud membership

[John T Smith]

You need to select the monthly plan when you subscribe, NOT the annual plan with monthly payments

Annual vs Monthly https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1926342

[meloncholy_]

Great, thanks a lot for your help. Good to know this should work for me.

[kglad]

you're welcome.

[carpetsquare]

Just cancel it as soon as you sign up for the month (no need to remember to do it the day before it expires). You'll get charged immediately for the following month, and you will have access until current month expires. I do this for all the subscription services when there is one particular series I want to watch but nothing else in the catalogue is of any interest to me. There is nothing "immoral" or "bad etiquette" about this - companies should have an option to just pay for a month and not get auto billed every following month - but they don't because they hope you will forget to cancel. So that you don't forget, just cancel literally immediately after you have paid. It's a perfectly normal and smart thing to do want to do.

[kglad]

you should actually not cancel immediately after subscribing.  set a reminder on your mobile (or whatever you will notice) and cancel just before your 1 month anniversary.