Reflecting entitlements in the frontend 1.2 (credits counter)

Learning Highlights

• 0:45

  Understanding how credit-based entitlements work by tracking and decrementing usage counters each time a user generates an email template in Vibe Coding Academy's system.

• 2:42

  Learn how billing cycle events trigger credit refreshes using Stripe's invoice.paid webhook with the subscription_cycle billing reason to reset user credits automatically.

• 4:59

  Discover Stripe's test clocks feature for simulating future billing cycles, enabling developers to verify credit refresh logic without waiting for actual subscription periods to end.

• 8:12

  The key to testing subscription workflows lies in manually creating corresponding database records when using Stripe test clocks, since artificial customer creation bypasses normal webhook flows.