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How to Downgrade Jira Software from Standard to Free

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Trudy P Claspill
Community Champion
August 5, 2026

Hello @Customs Verification Management System 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

I believe you may be encountering a problem with reactivating the Standard subscription because such a subscription requires payment information. You can't reactivate a Standard subscription and simultaneously make it a Free subscription on your own.

I advise you to reach out directly to the Atlassian Billing, Licensing, Pricing support team through this page:

https://www.atlassian.com/company/contact/purchasing-licensing#/

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August 6, 2026

Hi Trudy,

Thank you for your response.

I have already tried reaching Atlassian through the link you shared. Unfortunately, it seems to take me through a self-service flow that ends with knowledge base articles and doesn't provide a way to actually submit a support request.

Also, just to clarify, I'm not trying to reactivate the Standard subscription. My goal is to revert the site back to the Free plan.

I've already reduced our licensed Jira users to 8, which is within the Free plan limit, and I'm the Billing Admin for the site. However, the subscription is currently suspended, and clicking Reactivate only results in a "Something went wrong" error, so I'm unable to access any option to change the plan back to Free.

Is there an alternative way to contact the Billing team directly, or is this something that requires Atlassian Support to manually convert the subscription back to the Free plan?

Trudy P Claspill
Community Champion
August 6, 2026

@Customs Verification Management System 

You can't change a deactivated/suspended subscription to a different type on your own while it is in a deactivated/suspended state.

If you want the data in the subscription, you have to reactivate the subscription. If it has been suspended due to billing issues you need to resolve the billing issues before it can be reactivated.

If you are not able to do that on your own you need to work with Atlassian Billing support.

When you go to the page link I provided, does it show a message prompting you to login or are you already logged in?

If you are not already logged in then you can choose the option to proceed without logging in.

For "How can we help" choose "Your account".

For "Choose topic" select "Reactivate subscription"

Provide your URL.

Describe your situation.

You should see a submit button at the bottom of the screen.

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August 7, 2026

Hi @Trudy P Claspill 

Thank you for your guidance, and apologies for the delayed response.

I followed the steps you shared and was able to successfully create a support ticket. I'm now looking forward to the Atlassian team's response and assistance in resolving the subscription issue.

Thank you again for your help and clear instructions. They've been very useful.

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