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gloomy lichen Jul 22, 2022, 1:19 PM

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It's up to you/what works best with your integration flow. I also recommend reading this guide, which goes over multiple different events that are useful to listen to with subscriptions: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks

Using webhooks with subscriptions

Learn to use webhooks to receive notifications of subscription activity.

light cedar Jul 22, 2022, 1:24 PM

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Cool, so there is no strict requirement for listening to invoice.* events. Maybe a follow-up question is: when an active subscription gets renewed, will a new customer.subscription.updated event flow through the webhooks? I took a look into https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/change and the page you linked, but could not find this specific answer

gloomy lichen Jul 22, 2022, 1:30 PM

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I don't know that off the top of my head unfortunately, but that event is only triggered when some field on the customer object has changed: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/object

Stripe API reference – The customer object – curl

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You could test this scenario out in test mode to see which events are generated

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https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing/test-clocks could help with advancing billing periods

Test your integration with test clocks

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light cedar Jul 22, 2022, 1:31 PM

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Sounds good! That's super helpful, thank you for the support ✨

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