SimpliSafe: billing error
Fix payment methods in Plan & Billing or at 1-800-297-1605. SimpliSafe can raise monitoring prices by email notice, effective immediately where the law allows.
What does this mean?
Grade A (high: almost everything comes from official pages read directly). 100% of 21 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites.
Collect
- bill or card statement with the charge
- plan price at sign-up
- any price-change email
- cancellation confirmation if charged after cancelling
Steps
Compare the charge with your plan price and any price-change email from SimpliSafe.
Call the billing line or support. Ask for a correction and a reference number.
If SimpliSafe does not fix it, dispute the charge with your card issuer within the deadline in rules/fcba-billing-error.
More contacts for this issue
Facts you can cite
- Contact
The Terms of Service say "Go to Plan & Billing under your account settings or contact us at 1800-297-1605" to update or remove a payment method.
Source: simplisafe.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Policy
"SimpliSafe may increase periodic recurring charges at any time under this Agreement by sending the notice to you by email" to the email address on file, and "any change in charges can be made effective immediately, after notice of such a pricing change is provided". No minimum notice period is stated.
Source: simplisafe.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Deadline
The Terms of Service and the Terms of Sale (both updated November 2025) require AAA consumer arbitration and bar class arbitration. Each lets you opt out "BY EMAILING TOS@SIMPLISAFE.COM WITHIN 60 DAYS" of the terms first becoming binding. Revised Terms of Service changes can be rejected within 30 days of posting by emailing the same address.
Source: simplisafe.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
1 citable point
- Policy
The seller must obtain "a consumer's express informed consent before charging the consumer's credit card, debit card, bank account, or other financial account".
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
If that fails, escalate
Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.
Customer service
Retention team
The cancellation line named in the Terms of Service.
Written complaint
MailWritten notice of termination by regular mail or overnight delivery (principal place of business) SimpliSafe, Inc., 100 Summer Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02110Send by a method with proof of delivery.
Card 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)
Card dispute for monitoring charges after a confirmed cancellation, or for a return refund not paid.
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).Arbitration
AAA consumer arbitration under the Terms of Sale and Terms of Service (both November 2025), no class actions. Opt out by emailing TOS@simplisafe.com within 60 days of the terms first becoming binding; reject later Terms of Service changes within 30 days of posting. Terms of Service section 39(d) excludes tort claims for bodily injury or property damage. Neither document mentions small claims court.
Watch out
- Phone cancellation can include security questions, and app cancellation needs a call-back to the account holder's phone, so the person may need to take the call.
- The app and Plan & Billing need sign-in.
- Equipment bought from a retailer cannot be returned to SimpliSafe.
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