# How does Streams Manager know that a user is active or expired?

Streams Manager determines whether a user is active or expired based on the user type and whether they have a payment that is still active. If a user is permanent, it is by default active and they never expire. If a user is non-permanent, then they must have a payment where the current date/time must be between the start and end dates (from or to) of the payment. If a user is expired, they will be removed from the Plex server during the next synchronization run (runs every hour).


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