Building a Google Sheets subscription tracker that normalizes any billing cycle

A developer describes a method for comparing subscriptions that bill weekly, monthly or yearly by converting every cost to a common monthly figure. The approach uses a small lookup sheet that maps each billing cycle to its payments per year, avoiding long nested IF statements that break when new cycles are added. Formula columns then derive monthly and yearly costs, calculate days until the next renewal, and exclude cancelled rows from totals. The article also covers conditional formatting for upcoming renewals and a dashboard summarizing monthly spending, and notes the setup works in both Google Sheets and Excel. The author offers a finished, paid version of the template for $1 as an alternative to building it manually.