I was very disappointed to discover that characters don’t roll over into a new month’s subscription.

What happens to my subscription and quota at the end of the month?

Your subscription will automatically renew with each billing cycle and your characters will reset.

The unused quota does not roll over as it is a subscription-based service and the quota is an allotment for that month only. The only time where the quota rolls over is if you upgrade your subscription in the middle of an ongoing cycle, in which case the remaining quota will be added to the new cycle.

Italics are mine. Luckily for me, I tend to use most of my characters anyway. Last month I had 300-some-odd left over, but when I checked my balance, I only had the 100,000 for the month. This is what their Help page said.

300 characters is barely two sentences, but I could have, IDK, recorded some chapter titles and save those characters for actual prose.

It’s a good thing I read this. I was thinking of saving up a few months and knocking out an audiobook. For now, that’s not an available option. I’ll need to pay for the next subscription level. #SadPanda

For now, I’ve recorded 11 of 38 chapters JUST for my own editorial process. If in the unlikely scenario a chapter requires no changes, I’ll be ahead of the game. To be honest, I can just rerecord amended passages, but this involves a lot of post-production editing, which I’ve done, but it usually ends up being cheaper to just re-record. #FirstWorldProblems