# Running out of usage

Source: https://amolfi.com/docs#billing--running-out-of-usage

Your workspace stays active. What happens next depends on one switch: **Use my Crowns when plan usage runs out**. It is on whenever your Crowns balance is positive, so work carries on and draws from the balance. Turn it off and the plan is a hard stop until the week resets.

### If the balance is empty

Amolfi offers you Crowns before anything refuses. New metered work pauses before provider spend rather than running first and billing afterward.

### What can pause metered work today

Amolfi may pace an unusually heavy burst so that one runaway job cannot spend a shared workspace’s week in an afternoon. Pacing bounds how fast usage is spent, not how much the plan includes.

Your records, completed results, approvals, and billing remain available if a protective limit pauses new metered work.

### If we give you a usage reset

Amolfi sometimes gives a workspace a promotional usage reset — after an incident, or as a goodwill gesture. Using one starts a new usage week straight away, so your usage reads as unused and the next reset moves seven days out. An owner or admin uses it from Settings. A reset expires if it is not used, has no cash value, and changes nothing except your usage week.

### If your plan lapses

Crowns you have bought are held rather than burned, and their 12-month clock stops until you come back. It starts again on your next successful charge.