BoxCast offers a storage billing option for assuring unlimited storage of videos beyond your plan's free storage duration. It is important to note that Auto-Bill is the default storage policy when you first subscribe to a BoxCast streaming plan.

The free storage durations for each BoxCast streaming plan are as follows:

Your free BoxCast storage is provided in a rolling window. This means your free storage doesn’t begin from the moment you sign up with BoxCast, rather each broadcast has its own free storage window that begins from the start time of the broadcast. When Auto-Bill is set for your storage policy, a broadcast is automatically billed per broadcast hour once it has exceeded your plan's free storage duration. BoxCast's storage billing rate is $0.49 per broadcast hour.

As an example, your Standard plan includes 90 days of storage and you stream a one-hour broadcast on July 1st. If the broadcast has not been deleted by October 1st (whether manually or your storage preference is set to Auto-Delete), you will receive a storage invoice for $0.49. As recorded broadcasts continue exceeding their 90-day storage window, your storage bill can easily grow month over month.

To view and manage your account's storage, log in to your BoxCast Dashboard and navigate to Settings > Storage.

The Storage Policy displays your plan's Included Storage (free storage duration) and Storage Policy. To change your Storage Policy you will click the Edit button, select between Auto-Bill or Auto-Delete, and finally click the Update Storage Policy button.

If your storage policy is set to Auto-Bill, your Storage Billing will display the broadcasts scheduled to be billed. You can hover over a broadcast to display the Export button for downloading the video, or export via your YouTube and Vimeo integrations. You will also see a button for deleting the broadcast if you wish to avoid its full storage cost.

If your storage policy is set to Auto-Delete, your Recordings to Be Deleted will display the broadcasts scheduled for deletion. You can hover over a broadcast to display the Export button for downloading the video, or export via your YouTube and Vimeo integrations.

Your Storage Bill History will display all storage bills for the account. Clicking the View button will provide a more detailed billing summary.

Storage can get expensive fast, so we suggest the following tips if you are interested in avoiding the added expense.

1. Auto-Delete would be the ideal selection for your storage policy. Broadcasts will be automatically deleted once they've exceeded their free storage duration.

2. Download or export your broadcast recording after the broadcast has aired. You may then manually delete your broadcasts before they are billed OR set your storage policy to Auto-Delete.

3. Delete broadcasts that aren't as important, such as test broadcasts or redundant broadcasts. As an example, you may broadcast an early morning worship service and a late morning worship service, so perhaps you delete one and pay storage on the other.

4. Schedule live-only broadcasts if no need of their recordings. This would be done when scheduling your broadcast.