# Manage and Stop

Recurring expenses are the easiest thing in any accounting system to forget about.

A subscription cancelled in March that is still generating in October quietly overstates your costs and understates your cash.

![An open recurring expense profile, Fleet insurance, showing its schedule, the account and vendor it posts against, and the count of expenses it has generated.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/recurring-expenses/recurring-expense-detail.png)

*Stopping a profile leaves everything it already generated exactly where it is.*

## Stop, expire, delete

A profile is **Active**, **Stopped** or **Expired**. There is no pause, and nothing resumes on its own.

| Action | What happens | Reversible |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stop | Generation ends. The profile and its history stay. | Yes. Make it active again when you need it. |
| Expire | Reached its end date. Stops on its own. | Yes. Extend or clear the end date. |
| Delete | Removes the profile. Generated expenses are untouched. | No. |

> **Warning:**
>
> **A stopped profile does not catch up**
>
> Restarting one does not backfill the cycles it missed while it was stopped. Nothing warns you either. Enter the gap by hand if the spending actually happened.

## The review that is worth doing

Filter the profile list to active with no end date, twice a year. That filter finds the cancelled subscription still generating, the supplier you stopped using, and the price that went up eighteen months ago.

- Review active profiles at least twice a year.
- Stop rather than delete when a service is suspended, so history stays intact.
- When a price changes, edit the profile. Editing one generated expense fixes that cycle only.
- Compare the profile list against your card statement once a year. The differences are the interesting part.