What problem does it solve?
Subscription Billing centralizes and automates recurring payments, failed payment recovery, plan upgrades/downgrades with correct proration, and self-serve cancellations so merchants stop losing revenue to manual processes and billing edge cases.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Recurring Billing Lifecycle: Configure and manage recurring charges, trials, and subscriber discounts using platform-native tools or Stripe Subscriptions for headless setups.
- Dunning & Recovery: Implement escalating retry schedules and contextual recovery emails keyed to invoice.attempt_count to minimize involuntary churn.
- Plan Changes & Proration: Preview proration with upcoming-invoice APIs and apply upgrades immediately while scheduling downgrades for period end to avoid unexpected refunds.
- Webhooks & DB Sync: Keep subscription state in your database via webhook handlers (invoice.payment_failed, customer.subscription.deleted, etc.) to avoid live Stripe calls on every request.
- Use Case: Replace manual subscription spreadsheets by hooking Recharge (Shopify) or Stripe Subscriptions into your app, automating retries, customer portals, and access revocation on cancellation.
Quick Start
Set up a monthly Stripe subscription for a customer with a 14-day trial, return the client_secret for any required 3DS confirmation, and persist the subscription record to your database.
