# How do I avoid being charged twice when downgrading from a Paid Plan to a lower Paid Plan?
Because our app [doesn't have trial days](/pricing-questions/pricing-faqs.md#3-does-the-app-have-trial-days) for the paid plan, the charge is applied right after upgrading.
Now, we’ll give an example of downgrading from the **Advanced Plan ($9.99)** to a lower plan.
* If you upgrade to **Advanced Plan**, finish the optimization, and want to **downgrade to the Free Plan**. The process is easy. [Read this guide. ](/pricing-questions/how-to-downgrade-from-paid-plan-to-free-plan.md)
* If you upgrade to **Advanced Plan**, finish the optimization, and want to **downgrade to the Basic Plan ($4.99)** on the same day. **You'll be charged twice!** ($9.99 and $4.99)
The refund process is complicated and time-consuming. We would never want to trouble you like that.
To avoid that situation, we can offer 2 options:
Option 1: You need to use all 30 days of the Advanced Plan, then remember to downgrade to Basic Plan. This way you will enjoy the $9.99 plan for a whole month.
Option 2: We can specially create a trial of 7 days for you. So that, you will remember to downgrade back to the Basic Plan.
To downgrade to the Basic plan, it is quite a similar process with [Downgrade to Free Plan](/pricing-questions/how-to-downgrade-from-paid-plan-to-free-plan.md), you uninstall the app, install it again, then click upgrade to the Basic Plan.
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