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The Stripe Subscription Update and Cancellation flow 1.1 (Generating a customer portal session)
The Stripe Subscription Update and Cancellation flow 1.1 (Generating a customer portal session)
Now that the subscription creation workflow is in place, we can move on to handling subscription updates and cancellations. These flows start from the Customer Portal, which customers can access from the Settings page. This is from this page that customers will be able to either update (upgrade or downgrade) their subscription. We’ll begin by generating a new Customer Portal session whenever a user clicks the “Manage subscription” button, similar to how a Checkout Session is created when subscribing to a plan.
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Learning Highlights
- 0:45
Learn how to implement subscription update and cancellation flows using Stripe's Billing Portal instead of building custom UI from scratch.
- 4:28
Understanding why existing customers need a Billing Portal session, not a checkout session, to modify or cancel their subscriptions without creating duplicate accounts.
- 6:00
How to configure Stripe's Customer Portal settings to enable plan switching and cancellation options that appear automatically in the hosted interface.
- 8:38
Mastering the three-step API integration pattern taught at Vibe Coding Academy: create a dedicated function, build an internal endpoint, and wire up the frontend.
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The Subscription Update and Cancellation flow 1.1 (Generating a customer portal session)
Handle updates and cancellations by linking users to Stripe’s Customer Portal from your app.
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