{"id":89,"date":"2025-10-30T11:43:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/kb\/how-to-turn-auto-renewal-on-or-off-for-a-domain\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:43:55","slug":"how-to-turn-auto-renewal-on-or-off-for-a-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/how-to-turn-auto-renewal-on-or-off-for-a-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"How to turn auto-renewal on or off for a domain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you no longer need a domain, it&#8217;s important that you turn off auto-renewal to ensure it&#8217;s not renewed for a further year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once a domain is renewed, it cannot be reversed and we unfortunately cannot issue a refund as we&#8217;re not able to recover the cost of the renewal from the registry. Domains are one of the few services that don&#8217;t have a flexible billing policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, if you want to ensure a domain renews automatically each year, it&#8217;s important auto-renewal is enabled on the domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Changing a domain&#8217;s auto-renew setting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Login to your Jolt account at <a href=\"https:\/\/my.jolt.co.uk\"><strong>my.jolt.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Domains<\/strong> in the main menu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the menu icon next to the domain you wish to manage and click <strong>Auto Renewal Status<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"999\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-12.png 999w, https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-12-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-12-768x317.png 768w, https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-12-770x318.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Toggle<\/strong> Auto Renew as needed<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"671\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-15.png 671w, https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-15-300x105.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to know if a domain has auto-renew enabled<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Your <strong>Domains<\/strong> area in the Jolt customer portal allows you to easily see &amp; sort domains that have Auto Renew enabled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-16-1024x484.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-16-1024x484.png 1024w, https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-16-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-16-768x363.png 768w, https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-16-770x364.png 770w, https:\/\/kb.jolt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/image-16.png 1135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you no longer need a domain, it&#8217;s important that you turn off auto-renewal to ensure it&#8217;s not renewed for a further year. Once a domain is renewed, it cannot be reversed and we unfortunately cannot issue a refund as we&#8217;re not able to recover the cost of the renewal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billing","category-domains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}