Multi-Year SSL Subscription

Great news in the SSL market! Sectigo SSL certificates are now available with Subscription Plans of up to 5 years. DigiCert, GeoTrust, Thawte and RapidSSL certificates are available for up to 3 years. For security reasons, your certificate will initially be issued with a maximum validity of 13 months. Before it expires, we'll reach out to you to replace it with a certificate for the remainder of the term.

You can renew your certificate whenever you want, as many times as you need. No more days or weeks lost to a fresh purchase and re-submission the way single-year certificates work! This makes your process more efficient and keeps your security continuous.

What is a TLS/SSL Multi-Year Plan?

To encourage our customers to embrace the benefits of shorter certificate lifetimes and to simplify certificate management, CheapSSL offers Multi-Year Plan TLS/SSL certificates. This new multi-year coverage gives our customers a time-efficient, cost-effective way to boost security by reducing certificate downtime and removing the hassle of managing shorter certificate lifecycles.

While browsers enforce one-year certificate lifetimes, the Multi-Year Plan together with automation tools saves both time and money. With the Multi-Year Plan, our customers secure longer coverage periods.

Why a Multi-Year Plan?

• Improved Security: Minimize security gaps with longer certificate coverage.
• Time Savings: Automation tools make certificate management easier.
• Cost Efficiency: Longer-term certificate purchases lower your costs.

At CheapSSL, our goal with the Multi-Year Plan is to serve our customers better, increase their security and simplify their management processes.

How Does It Work?

When you buy a TLS/SSL certificate under the Multi-Year Plan, the first certificate is valid for up to one year, and you get an unlimited number of certificate reissues for the length of the order, which can extend up to six years. During the Multi-Year Plan period, you'll need to re-validate your organizations and domains annually.

Certificate-replacement notifications are sent 30, 21, 14 and 7 days before the certificate expires. If users don't replace their own SSL, it will be automatically reissued using the same CSR 3 days before expiry. The renewed SSL will be sent to the customer's email address.

SSL Subscription Example

• • Subscription starts: the date the first SSL was issued.
  • Subscription ends: the date the subscription ends and new orders must be placed.
  • Valid From: the date the current, active SSL was issued.
  • Valid Till: the date the SSL needs to be replaced so a new SSL can extend coverage by another 13 months.