Co-term a subscription pack

This article is for organizations with free сlassroom licenses. If your organization uses commercial licenses, you'll manage everything in the new, enhanced JetBrains Central Console. You can find detailed instructions in the JetBrains Central Console documentation.

All subscriptions in a subscription pack share the same billing cycle, payment method, and usually the same renewal date. If the dates don’t match, they can be aligned through a process called co-terming.

Subscriptions in a single pack automatically co-term on the nearest payment date, but you can also co-term them manually.

Automatic co-terming

When you renew your subscription pack, all subscriptions are automatically co-termed to a common payment date. That date depends on how long you're renewing for.

One-month and one-year renewal

The new common payment date is one month or one year from the earliest expiration date in the pack:

• Subscriptions with the earliest expiration date renew for a full billing period.
• All other subscriptions renew for a shorter period, until the new common payment date. Their cost is adjusted accordingly.

Two and three-year renewals

Multi-year renewals are available for some products at checkout. Automatic renewals are always annual.

The new common payment date is two or three years from the renewal date:

• Subscriptions whose payment date coincides with the renewal date renew for a full billing period.
• All other subscriptions renew for a longer or shorter period, until the new common payment date, with cost adjusted accordingly.

Example of automatic co-terming

Here's how it works in practice. Say you have a subscription pack with 7 annual subscriptions:

• 3 × IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, valid through April 24, 2025
• 1 × PyCharm, valid through January 30, 2026
• 3 × WebStorm, valid through March 24, 2026

One-year renewal

IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate expires first, on April 25, 2025. This becomes the co-terming anchor: all 7 subscriptions renew for one year from that date, through April 24, 2026:

• IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate renews for 365 days (April 25, 2025 – April 24, 2026).
• PyCharm renews for 84 days (January 31 – April 24, 2026).
• WebStorm renews for 31 days (March 25 – April 24, 2026).

Two-year renewal

With a two-year renewal, the renewal date becomes the co-terming anchor instead of the earliest expiration date. So if you renew on April 27, 2025, all 7 subscriptions renew through April 26, 2027:

• IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate renews for a little more than two years – 732 days (April 25, 2025  – April 26, 2027).
• PyCharm renews for about 15 months – 451 days (January 31, 2026 – April 26, 2027).
• WebStorm renews for about 13 months – 398 days (March 25, 2026 – April 26, 2027).

Manual co-terming

You can manually co-term your subscription pack ahead of time instead of waiting for automatic co-terming during renewal. Here’s how it works.

The pack’s payment date is updated to match the renewal date of your subscription(s) that expire last. Their billing cycle stays the same, and there’s no extra charge to co-term them. Subscriptions that expire sooner are extended to the pack’s new payment date. You pay only for the time between their current renewal date and the new payment date, with costs adjusted accordingly.

Example of manual co-terming

Here’s the subscription pack from the earlier example:

• 3 × IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, valid through April 24, 2025
• 1 × PyCharm, valid through January 30, 2026
• 3 × WebStorm, valid through March 24, 2026

If you co-term manually, the pack’s payment date will move to March 25, 2026 – the renewal date for your WebStorm subscriptions, which expire last.

• The IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate subscriptions will be extended by 334 days (April 25, 2025 – March 24, 2026).
• The PyCharm subscription will be extended by 53 days (January 31 – March 24, 2026).
• The WebStorm subscriptions won’t be extended, keeping their current renewal date.

Co-term a subscription pack manually

To co-term your subscription pack:

1. Log in to your JetBrains Account.
2. In the menu on the left, click on your organization’s name.
   
3. In the menu that appears, select Subscription Packs.
   
4. Find the subscription pack you’d like to renew and click Co-term to a single license validity.
   

You’ll be taken to the checkout page, where you can view the co-terming cost for each license and either pay online or request a quote.