Chewy: cancellation problem
Cancel Autoship in Autoship Manager or by phone at any time; end Chewy+ in your account or by phone, with access to the end of the paid term.
What does this mean?
Grade C (use with care: check the source of each value before relying on it). 100% of 13 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites; 3 value(s) were read from a search snippet or an archive copy.
Collect
- account email
- Autoship order or Chewy+ charge date
- cancellation confirmation
Steps
For Autoship, cancel in Autoship Manager in Your Account, or call customer service. Edit or cancel before 12:00 AM on the day before the ship date, because the order is authorized about 24 hours before shipping.
For Chewy+, end the membership in your account or by calling customer service, before the next charge.
If you end Chewy+ within 3 business days of signing up or of converting from a free trial, ask for the full fee refund.
Dispute any charge made after a confirmed cancellation with your card issuer.
Facts you can cite
- Policy
"You can cancel at any time via Autoship Manager, which can be found in Your Account" or "by calling Customer Service at 800-672-4399." (Autoship Terms, last updated September 24, 2026.)
Source: chewy.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Deadline
"up to 72 hours prior to the ship date selected by you, you will receive a pre-shipment email notification"; you can edit or cancel until the window "ending 12:00 AM the day preceding your designated ship date." "Approximately 24 hours prior to your designated ship date, your order will be authorized." "You will not be charged until your order ships."
Source: chewy.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Policy
The Autoship price is "the price of that item as stated in the pre-shipment email notification you receive or lower"; "Chewy will not change the price of your next shipment once you have authorized an order."
Source: chewy.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Policy
"You may end your Chewy+ membership by visiting your account or calling Customer Service at 1-800-672-4399." After ending, "you can continue to use your Chewy+ membership until the end of your paid membership term." (Chewy+ Terms, last updated 10/5/26.)
Source: chewy.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Policy
Chewy+ renews automatically "UNLESS YOU NOTIFY US BEFORE A CHARGE THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO AUTO RENEW", charging the then-applicable fee to a payment method on file. Chewy may change member fees, benefits and terms "at any time without notice."
Source: chewy.com, verified 2026-10-13
Rules in force
- Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA) negative option requirements15 U.S.C. 8401-8405
A seller that charges consumers online through a negative option feature (for example an automatic renewal or a free trial that converts to paid) must clearly disclose all material terms before taking billing information, get the consumer's express informed consent before charging, and provide simple mechanisms to stop recurring charges. The FTC enforces ROSCA.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
3 citable points
- Policy
Before obtaining the consumer's billing information, the seller must provide text that "clearly and conspicuously discloses all material terms of the transaction".
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
The seller must provide "simple mechanisms for a consumer to stop recurring charges" on the consumer's credit card, debit card, bank account or other financial account.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Process
A ROSCA violation is treated as a violation of an FTC rule on unfair or deceptive acts or practices, and the FTC enforces ROSCA with its FTC Act powers and penalties. Report violations to the FTC.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
Rules not in force (do not cite)
- FTC "Click-to-Cancel" amendments to the Negative Option Rule (2024) Vacated16 CFR part 425 (2024 amendments, published November 15, 2024)
Vacated in full by the Eighth Circuit on July 8, 2025 (Custom Communications, Inc. v. FTC, 142 F.4th 1060). The FTC removed the 2024 text effective February 12, 2026 and restored the pre-2024 prenotification rule. A new rulemaking is only at the ANPRM stage (March 13, 2026), with no proposed text as of 2026-10-12. What remains in force: ROSCA (rules/rosca-negative-option), Section 5 of the FTC Act, and state automatic renewal laws (for example rules/ca-automatic-renewal-law, rules/ny-automatic-renewal-law).
Not in force. Do not cite it as current law.
If that fails, escalate
Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.
Customer service
Supervisor
Written complaint
EmailChewy Legal (questions about the Terms of Use, including your legal relationship with Chewy) legal@chewy.comCard or bank dispute
Fair Credit Billing Act billing-error and purchase-dispute rights (Regulation Z)
Electronic Fund Transfer Act error resolution and unauthorized-transfer liability (Regulation E)
State agency
Your state’s attorney general. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON:
states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).Public complaint
RegulatorBetter Business Bureau
Watch out
- Autoship Manager and Chewy+ cancellation online need the account holder's sign-in; the 24/7 phone line is the alternative.
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