blackbirdgunner

[balmy lion]

Hi! Let me help you with this.

I would recommend listening to invoice.paid or customer.subscription.created/updated

[vocal iron]

will customer.subscription.updated be fired if user upgrades/downgrades their plan? If so, is there a way to identify if the event was fired for renewals or subscription changes like plan upgrade/downgrade?

[balmy lion]

You can check what fields were updated in data.previous_attributes: https://stripe.com/docs/api/events/object#event_object-data-previous_attributes

But that's why I would recommend invoice.paid more

[vocal iron]

so should I be using invoice.payment_failed for taking action on payment failure, instead of the payment_intent one?

or is there a more suitable event?

[balmy lion]

Yes, invoice.payment_failed is fine. Note, there might be several retry attempts, each producing this event.

[vocal iron]

there might be several retry attempts

Is this due to user retrying and failing again or stripe retrying same payment automatically?

[balmy lion]

Both actually.

But I originally meant the automatic retries by Stripe when the off-session payment fails.