Know exactly what you're subscribed to. Finally.
Every app, subscription and renewal your household or company pays for — in one place, kept current by doing nothing more than forwarding an email.
Free forever for people and families. Businesses get 30 days free — and are never charged unless they opt in.
Subscriptions creep. Nobody's watching.
Software stopped being something you buy once. Now it's a hundred small monthly charges spread across cards, inboxes and people — and no single view of any of it.
The invoices are everywhere
One receipt in your inbox, another in your partner's, a third in a finance mailbox nobody checks. The information exists — it's just scattered across the exact places you'll never look at together.
Renewals hit first, questions come later
The charge lands, then you ask whether anyone still uses the thing. Auto-renewal is designed to make forgetting expensive — and forgetting is what humans do.
Nobody can answer the simple question
"What do we actually pay for, and how much is it per year?" should take ten seconds to answer. For most families and most companies, it takes an afternoon of spreadsheet archaeology.
Forward an email. That's the whole workflow.
ShelfLife gives you one private inbox address. Anything forwarded to it becomes part of a live, organized inventory. No forms, no data entry, no discipline required.
Get your private inbox
Sign up and ShelfLife issues your own intake address. It's unguessable, it's yours, and it's the only thing anyone needs to remember.
Everyone forwards to it
You, your partner, your team leads, accounts payable — everyone forwards invoices and receipts to the same address, straight from their own inbox.
ShelfLife keeps the ledger
Each invoice is read, filed under the right app, and assigned to its owner and team. You get running totals, upcoming renewals, and who owns what — always current.
One inbox. Many owners.
The trick that makes ShelfLife work for a family and a company is the same trick: everyone shares one intake address, but every subscription belongs to someone.
In a household, that someone is a person — so you can see the whole family's costs, or just yours. In a company, it's a team, branch or division — so costs roll up exactly the way your org does.
Same tool, same three-step habit. Just different labels on the owners.
From: James <james@outlook.com>
Fwd: Your Netflix invoice → inbox-k7f2q@intake.cardinera.com
From: Sarah <sarah@gmail.com>
Fwd: iCloud+ receipt → inbox-k7f2q@intake.cardinera.com
From: Finance <ap@yourcompany.com>
Fwd: Slack annual renewal → inbox-k7f2q@intake.cardinera.com
Two front doors, one tool
Pick the one that sounds like you. The other will still be there if things change.
Your household's subscriptions, sorted
Streaming, storage, apps, memberships — everything the family pays for, in one shared view. See the whole household's total, or filter down to what each person owns.
Free. Forever. Actually.
How families use ShelfLife →A system of record for the software you buy
Every app, agreement and renewal across every team — with notice deadlines you'll hear about before they pass, not after. Unlimited people on every plan.
From $50/month, priced by apps — never by seats.
How businesses use ShelfLife →The Cardinera promise
This site will read differently from every other software site you've seen this week. That's on purpose. Cardinera exists to build tools that respect you — here's what that means, in writing.
Dead simple, or not done
If a feature needs a manual, we haven't finished it. The core workflow is forwarding an email — if your least technical relative can't use it, we failed.
Your data is yours
We will never sell your data, share it, mine it for ads, or peek at what you subscribe to. Your invoices are processed by software, not read by people. That's the whole policy.
Trials that end honestly
When your trial ends, we ask if you'd like to pay. If you don't opt in, you are not charged — full stop. We won't win customers by hoping they forget a calendar date.
A card, not a hook
We ask for a card at signup only to confirm you're a real person and keep the abuse out. On the free plan it is never charged — not on day 30, not ever.
Why "Cardinera"?
Cardinera is a small company with a simple thesis: most software tries to do too much, and treats its users as the product. We'd rather build a small number of tools that each do one job completely, honestly, and without a learning curve.
ShelfLife — the subscription and software ledger you're reading about — is the first of them. When there's a second, it will live here too, and it will be held to the same promise you just read.
What ShelfLife is not
- Not a bank-account scraper. We never ask for your banking credentials. You choose what it sees by choosing what you forward.
- Not a cancellation service. We show you what you pay and when it renews; the decisions stay yours.
- Not an "engagement" app. No streaks, no nags, no notification spam. Look at it when you need an answer.
Ten seconds from now, you could forward your first invoice.
That's genuinely the setup. Sign up, get your inbox address, forward something. The answer to "what do we pay for?" starts building immediately.
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