College Course 4 Months Long and 529 Plan

[BobtheRancher]

Hi, new here.  My grand daughter is taking a college photography course that requires Adobe.  But, the course is a semester and ends in May.  Does Adobe require her to sign up and pay for a year when she only needs it through May?  This may be a problem as she is covered by our 529 Plan that ONLY covers college expenses as REQUIRED by the IRS.  So the remaining months after May CANNOT be paid out of the 529 Plan.  Don't you offer simply a month to month payment (not annual) based on actual use of your software for a college course?

[John T Smith]

I do NOT know if the special photography plan is available on a monthly basis

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

Cloud Plans https://creative.adobe.com/plans

-Do read the Subscription Terms https://www.adobe.com/misc/subscription_terms.html

[fenjas29325284]

There is a month-to-month plan, but the price for 4 months (= regular price, no education price available) is nearly the same as for 1 year student & teacher edition.

The month-to-month plan can be cancelled every month. But if you cancel an annual plan before the subscription ends you have to pay a "penalty" fee, 50% of the remaining installments.

Month-to-month, 4 x $ 29,99 = $ 119,96

1 year education promotion price: $ 119,88 prepaid or 12 x $ 9,99 = $ 119,88 per month.

Creative Cloud pricing and membership plans | Adobe Creative Cloud

Fenja

[BobtheRancher]

Thanks for the prompt information.  Sad that Adobe won't allow students taking a semester or quarter course that requires Adobe software.  One would think that if a professor requires it, then Adobe would charge a college rate for the semester months ONLY.  The student has to keep paying even though the student takes only one photography course.

[fenjas29325284]

OK, but we know Adobe isn't a charity.

But WHY does it have to be Photoshop? For only 4 months? Two hours a week?

There is a lot of cheaper image editing software he/she could teach the basic concepts of image editing with.

I blame the teacher for his thoughtlessness and lack of flexibility.

Fenja

[BobtheRancher]

Thanks, Help me understand how to stop automatic renewal at the end of one

year. I just read your section on How to Cancel. What I get from this is

....you must cancel on the exact day of the one year anniversary. If you

miss that by one day, you must pay 50% of the NEXT year's total amount.

And, if you decide to be prudent and cancel one month before the

anniversary date you pay 50% of the remaining month. Hence, you lose one

month's of use and pay a 50% penalty??? Question, most auto renewals that I

am familiar with allow you to go in and simply remove the auto renewal in

advance of the anniversary date so you get full use until the anniversary

date and you don't have to do the non-renewal on the exact date.. Can you

also do this? Second question, to avoid this can one just pay the full

amount for the one year without auto-renewal?

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 6:54 AM, fenjas29325284 <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[Just Shoot Me]

No you pay 50% of the remaining amount do for that year. Yes if you miss it foreword then you are into the next year. So Cancel 2 days prior to the end of the first year.

[fenjas29325284]

Yes, it's not user friendly. It's as Just Shoot Me says.

As I paid a 1-year subscription for a kid in my family two years ago the cancel button appeared 3 weeks before the end of the year. AND I got an email notification (email address of the Adobe ID).

If you have a chance to buy a 1-year prepaid subscription with a redemption code from a reseller, and you don't fill in your bank/credit card account numbers, they can't renew. But this may be not possible in all countries.

If you choose the month-to-month plan, it is easier to cancel, because you can cancel every month.

Fenja

[BobtheRancher]

Fenja, Please clarify "If you choose month to month plan, it is easier to

cancel, because you can cancel every month." So after 4 months of

classroom use, I can cancel and not be charged 50% of the remaining 8

months (annual)?

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 8:37 AM, fenjas29325284 <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[John T Smith]

Go back to my reply #1 and click the first link I provided

Not all plans are available on a monthly basis, so you need to be sure what you are doing before you buy

[BobtheRancher]

The deal for college students is "Annual Plan paid monthly" ... so are you

saying Adobe does offer monthly plans? It would be nice if Adobe would

offer monthly plans to college students taking a course for 4 months and

just paying for 4 months.

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 9:05 AM, John T Smith <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[Just Shoot Me]

If it did it would be more per month than the yearly paid month by month or as a yearly cost.

[fenjas29325284 · Accepted solution]

Sorry for the confusion.

1. The student & teacher plan is a annual plan, not for parts of the year. If you cancel earlier, you have to pay the penalty fee.

2. The plan for single month(s) is a normal single app plan, not a education special. It can be cancelled in March or April or May ... , just as you like. In the price list it is called "Monthly plan", see my picture above. You don't have to pay the early cancellation penalty fee.

3. Let's compare the pricing of these two plans: 4 months of  the "Monthly plan" equals 1 year of the "Student & Teacher" plan.

Now you don't know if your grand daughter will love image editing. The Student & Teacher Photography plan gives her 8 months extra time to use the program if she wants, with no extra costs. You only have to remember when the year is up.

Fenja