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[undone moss]

👋 Thanks for reaching out
Could you please share more details about what you are trying to achieve ?

[floral kestrel]

I have to handle payment falure

I want to listen to subscription.updated event

I need confirmation what would be the status when payment fails

[undone moss]

If automatic payment fails, the subscription updates to past_due and Stripe attempts to recover payment based on your retry rules. If payment recovery fails, you can set the subscription status to canceled, unpaid, or leave it past_due.
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/overview#failed-payments

[floral kestrel]

If payment fails because of a card error, such as a decline, the status of the PaymentIntent is requires_payment_method and the subscription is incomplete

This is the line from stripe docs only

which one is correct ??

Your docs is quite confussing

There is no exact solution

PLease let me know the possible work around

Somewhere in docs it mentioned to listen to subscription.updated event
at other place its mentioned to listen to invoice.payment_failed

[undone moss]

Here, once the first payment attempt failed then the created subcsription status is incomplete. However, if the subscription is already created and first/previous payments were made successfully, then an automatic payment fails, then the subscription passes to past_due

I invite to check the diagram in this section:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/overview#subscription-lifecycle

[floral kestrel]

ok,

If subscription is created, and payment is not made even once subscription status will chnage to incomplet after unsuccessful payment

I have subscription model

I use stripe's checkout to create subscription, so sbscription is created only after successful payment only

Now, I need to maintain the reason for failure of automatic payment failure

Is it enough to listen to invoice.payment_failure

[undone moss]

Yes. and that's what we recommend:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks#payment-failures

[floral kestrel]

Thankks

Do we have any option to send dummy invoice.payment_failed event

[undone moss]

yes you can using stripe cli:
stripe trigger invoice.payment_failed
https://stripe.com/docs/cli/trigger

[floral kestrel]

Thanks man

can we attach test clock to any customer using API

[earnest pebble]

No, you need to create a new Customer object

[floral kestrel]

My requirement is I want to create customer with test clock enabled

ok

new invoice will be generated at end of every billing cycle

suppose payment is failed so subscription will go to past_due,
Suppose 2 billing cycle is passed away and no payment is recieved from customer, In that scenario new invoice will be generated every month ??

[earnest pebble]

That depends on how your account is configured to handle failed payments: https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/billing/automatic

[floral kestrel]

I have recieve invoice.payment_failed event, where can i find the reason for payment failure

If all retries for a payment fail than i have setting to mark subscription as unpaid

[earnest pebble]

You'd look at the related payment_intent on the Invoice: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-payment_intent

[earnest pebble]

Then yes, we'd continue to generate an invoice for each cycle: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/overview#unpaid-subscriptions