Rollover, expiry, and which tokens go first
A monthly grant expires with its month, capped rollover aside. A top-up pack never expires. Spending always draws on whatever expires soonest, so the pack survives.
Two rules, and everything else follows from them.
- A monthly grant expires at the end of its period — except that unspent grant carries into the next one, up to your plan's cap.
- Spending draws on whatever expires soonest. This month's grant goes before a pack you bought in March.
The rollover cap, by plan
| Plan | Monthly | Tokens per month | Rollover |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $49 | 1,300 | none |
| Editorial | $149 | 5,100 | up to 2 grants |
| Couture | $399 | 15,900 | up to 3 grants |
The cap is stated in grants, not tokens, which is the part that surprises people:
- Studio holds one grant. An unspent month leaves you at 1,300 next month, not 2,600. The unspent one is gone.
- Editorial holds two. Two unspent months leave you at 10,200; a third does not add a fourth.
- Couture holds three.
A renewal that lands while you are already at the cap grants nothing new. Real money moved and no tokens did — which is the correct behaviour for a cap, and worth knowing before you leave a Studio month unspent on purpose.
Top-up packs never expire
250, 1,000 or 3,000 tokens, bought once, no expiry ever. That is why they price above every plan's per-token rate: they are the overflow, not the deal.
A pack you did not need in March is still there in June.
Why the ordering matters
Because it is the only thing that stops your never-expiring pack being spent while an expiring grant sits untouched and then evaporates. The house spends the soonest-to-expire lot first, always, and a pack with no expiry is spent last.
You do not choose this and there is no setting for it. It is the ordering that loses you the fewest tokens.
Why the balance dropped without you developing anything
A grant reaching its expiry date stops counting toward your balance. It is not deducted and nothing was taken — it simply stops being spendable, on its date. If the number moved and you did not develop, an expiry is the first thing to check.
The trial
A new house gets 120 tokens for 7 days. They expire with the trial, like any other grant, and they are spent first while they are live because they expire soonest.
Related
- Quality and cost — plans and packs in full
- Running out of tokens mid-season
- Refunds, and what a refund does to tokens
Running out of tokens mid-season
The develop is refused before it starts, never half-charged. Three ways back — a top-up pack that never expires, a plan change, or waiting for the next grant.
Refunds, and what a refund does to tokens
A refund reverses the whole grant it paid for, including the part already spent. It does not delete the frames you developed, and it does not push your balance below zero.