Discussion
New blogpost:
"New UK rules for consumer subscription contracts"
One for people who run businesses who sell subscriptions to consumers in the UK.
The detail is quite complicated, even if the principles are simple enough, and it has taken me most of my day so far to get my head around this... enjoy!
https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/new-uk-rules-for-consumer-subscription-contracts/
@neil Thanks Neil. Very interesting. How does that affect subscription software licensing. If the software is self hosted by the user and not the seller are they still offering a service? Is this just for consumers or does it also affect B2B subscriptions?
Consumers only.
One would need to look into the detail of any particular service model but I suspect that the policy behind it applies to regular repeating payments for licensing.
I'd hope that services like Patreon and OnlyFans will already have this sorted, so that people using those services to offer subscriptions will not need to worry.
For people running their own subscription services / platforms, this is likely to take a bit more thinking.