Is customer.subscription.updated a good way to handle the status of a subscription?

Question

I viewed this question, but am still not 100% sure about how to handle recurring subscriptions. I have the following question:

• If I have a webhook for the customer.subscription.updated, is that enough to keep track of a recurring subscription? For example, according to the question above, when the subscription billing period changes, customer.subscription.updated is called. Will it also be called if, for example, a payment fails, and the status changes to past due?

Is it alright to use just the customer.subscription.updated webhook, or is it necessary to use the webhooks such as invoice.payment_succeeded for keeping track of the subscription? Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

You'll probably want to also keep track of invoice.payment_failed - and possibly invoice.payment_action_required - so you know when those happen; otherwise you should be good, ya. You can read more about it here:

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/webhooks