In plain English
The subscription is still ongoing for now, even though its end has already been scheduled. This status marks a planned stop at a later date rather than an immediate end.
In context
Here, “pending cancellation” communicates that the subscription has already been set to cancel on a future date and is not over yet.
- Situation
- Managing subscriptions, trials, renewals, proration, upgrades, and cancellations
- What it communicates
- labels the subscription as set to end later
Meaning limits
By itself, this term does not say when the future cancellation date is or what happens before that date.
Examples
“Although the newspaper subscription was in pending cancellation, it still had ten days before it ended.”
“After the customer arranged for the plan to stop next month, it entered pending cancellation.”