Paypal Pre-Approved payment notification on the plan I cancelled.

Hey guys, I am new to chess and I wanted to give the trial a chance. Since I didn't know if I am even into chess and my money situation isn't too great since I just started my first job, I decided to just purchase the trial via paypal and cancelled right away. paypal today sent me a message that I am about to pay for a full year of the diamond plan even though everything is cancelled (I checked both on paypal and chess.com. Chess.com told me that my trial ends tomorrow) but I am still worried. What do I do? is it just a bug?

If you followed the step in https://support.chess.com/article/530-how-do-i-cancel-my-premium-membership-if-i-subscribed-with-paypal you should be fine.

Thank you Martin! I followed everything already and it was cancelled days ago so I guess everything will be fine!

The site has done some one-month trials before. Though, like most subscription products, there's no reminder before the trial end.

A trial can be for the monthly or yearly subscription, so as long as the member chooses the correct one they may want, or change before the trial ends, they're going to get the one chosen

The site also has a 30-day money back guarantee for first time subscriptions, so they can get refunded if they forget or get a month out and decide not to continue.

How do you prevent someone from just creating new accounts every month to get access to all the features? The site does try different ideas out occasionally, so if something ends up increasing the number of people that stick with premium, that's what's going to be what they go with.

One-month with no requirements or restrictions is unlikely to improve the number of paid premiums, though I could be wrong. It's likely something like that has been or will be tried, at least on a smaller scale basis.