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Josh
Josh

Reputation: 109

How does stripe handle subscription with no payment in customer

I am using stripe for a subscription based project and recently found out that you can subscribe without the user requiring payment information with a trial period.

How does stripe handle the user once the trial period ends but didn't any payment information?

When I look at customers it says that there isn't any default source.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 620

Answers (1)

koopajah
koopajah

Reputation: 25622

At the end of the trial period, the Subscription would renew its billing cycle. This would make the Subscription move to status: "active" and send customer.subscription.updated. A new Invoice would also be created. This would send the invoice.created event.

An hour or two later, the Invoice would be automatically finalized and Stripe would attempt to pay it. The payment would fail since the Customer has no payment method attached. This would send an invoice.payment_failed event. The Invoice would be retried multiple times as documented here. Stripe can even send emails to your Customer asking them to add/update their card.

If all payment retries fail, the Subscription would then be canceled automatically.

Upvotes: 1

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