Overview

Renewal Introduction

An SSL certificate is a one-time payment product. An expired SSL certificate cannot encrypt communications over HTTPS. This will put your service at risk. If you want to continue using an SSL certificate, you need to renew the certificate before it expires.

Only SSL certificates can be renewed. Private CAs and certificates are billed on a pay-per-use basis, so you only need to ensure that your account has a valid payment method configured or your account balance is sufficient.

How to Renew Subscriptions

The following table describes how to renew SSL certificates.

**Table 1** Renewal methods
Method	Description
Manually Renewing an SSL Certificate	The manual renewal entry is available only for 30 calendar days before an SSL certificate expires.
Auto-renewing an SSL Certificate	If auto-renewal is enabled for a certificate, the system automatically purchases a new certificate that has the same specifications as the original one 30 days before the original one expires and submits a certificate application using the application information of the original certificate. You still need to cooperate with the CA to complete domain name ownership and/or organization verification. The CA will not issue the new certificate until they validate your domain name ownership and identity.