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title: "Pause, resume or end a series"
description: "Stop a recurring bill for a while or for good, and preview what changes before you confirm."
canonical_url: "https://getfiga.com/help/pause-resume-end/"
---

# Pause, resume or end a series

Stop a recurring bill for a while or for good, and preview what changes before you confirm.

Use a pause when a bill stops for a while, like a gym membership over the summer. Use an end when it stops for good, like a cancelled subscription. Both change only the plan in Figa: they do not cancel a contract with your provider.

## Pause a series

1.  Open the bill, or find it in the **Recurring expenses** list.
2.  Select **Pause** and choose the **First excluded occurrence**.
3.  Choose when it comes back: a **First resumed occurrence**, or **Until I resume manually**.
4.  Select **Review effect**, check which occurrences change, then **Confirm**.

While paused, the series shows as **Suspended** and its occurrences leave the months ahead. A pause that starts later shows as **Pause planned from** a date; **Cancel planned pause** removes it.

## Resume

Select **Resume / change return** and choose the first occurrence to bring back. You can enter a **New amount from resume**, for example when the price went up during the break, or leave it empty to keep the amounts you had.

If you pick a date in the past, Figa lists the occurrences that will return before you confirm.

## End a series

Select **End series** and choose the **Last allowed occurrence**. Nothing is planned after it, and the series shows as **Ended**.

**Ending is permanent**

Resume cannot undo an end. If the bill might come back, pause it instead.

## What Figa keeps

Pausing or ending never removes your history. Paid expenses and confirmed invoices are always kept. Other occurrences already stored in the paused range are kept by default; in the review step you can select the ones you consider only plans to exclude them.

## Installment plans

A series with a set number of payments, created with **After X occurrences**, cannot be paused or ended. To leave out one payment, skip that occurrence. See [Installments](https://getfiga.com/help/installments).