Notice period calculator Work out the notice period before the renewal lands

Count back from the renewal date. Renewal date minus your notice period gives the day the cancellation has to be in by. What matters is counting in whole months with an end-of-month correction: 31 January minus one month is 31 December, but 31 March minus one month is 28 February. The calculator above applies that correction automatically.

No, and that is deliberate. It works only with the values you enter. It makes no claim about the law and cites no statutes. Which notice period applies to your contract is in your contract, or follows from the type of agreement. This page does arithmetic, it does not give advice.

Because the calculator deliberately rounds to the earlier date. Whether a notice period counts from the end of the term or from the renewal date differs between contracts, and the two readings land one or two days apart. With a deadline, a day early is free and a day late costs a whole term. So we show the safe date.

The calculator says so directly. If the deadline for the next renewal is in the past, it flags that this renewal can no longer be stopped, gives the date the contract now runs to at minimum, and works out your next chance.

A clause under which the contract extends for another term if nobody gives notice in time. A common shape is a twelve-month initial term renewing for twelve months at a time with three months' notice. The renewal is why a missed deadline costs a year rather than a few days.

No. You do not upload anything here. The calculator needs four numbers and a date, and the whole calculation runs in your browser. There is no server that sees any of it, and nothing is stored.

An ICS file with two all-day events: one as a reminder before the notice period expires, using whatever lead time you set, and one on the day of the automatic renewal. It works in Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and anything else that reads ICS.

Yes. Set automatic renewal to 'No, fixed term'. The calculator then works out one term end and its deadline, with no renewals. If the deadline has already passed, it tells you the contract runs out anyway and there is nothing to do.

The notice period is how much warning you owe. The termination date is when the contract is allowed to end at all. Three months tells you the warning; end of quarter tells you the exit is only ever 31 March, 30 June, 30 September or 31 December. Deadlines get missed because only one half of that gets read.

The cancellation has to be with the other side 90 days before the renewal date, not 90 days before you want to stop paying. For a contract renewing on 1 January, that is 2 October. A day late and the renewal takes effect for another full term.

Set the termination date your contract names and leave the start date blank. The result is the next date you can still get out on, and the last day notice has to go out for it. If that day has passed, the calculator shows the exit after it instead.

Most contracts count from receipt, not from the postmark, so a notice posted on the deadline is usually late. What governs yours is in your contract. The practical answer is to send it earlier than you need to and keep proof of delivery. The calculator works with the day the notice should have arrived.

The calculator names the weekday and flags a Saturday or Sunday. Whether a deadline moves in that case depends on the contract and the law behind it, which this page does not try to answer. Sending on the Friday before makes the question moot.

The arithmetic does, the rules do not. The calculator uses exactly the period and the termination date you type in and turns them into a date. It knows no statutory minimums, no scaling by length of service and no collective agreement terms. For contracts between businesses, where both values are written into the agreement, that is what you want. For employment or tenancy, establish the governing values first, then come back for the date.