The Subscription Update and Cancellation flow 1.2 (Updating a subscription)

Learning Highlights

• 0:32

  Learn how to handle subscription upgrades and downgrades by listening to Stripe's subscription.updated webhook and processing the payload to update both subscription and account data.

• 1:16

  Understanding the two-step update process: first updating the subscription's product ID and billing parameters, then modifying the account's feature access to match the new plan.

• 2:06

  How to ensure feature entitlements sync automatically with plan changes by updating account attributes like credits and feature flags when customers upgrade or downgrade.

• 4:14

  Discover why validating database updates is critical after webhook processing, checking that product IDs, billing cycles, amounts, and account entitlements all reflect the customer's new subscription tier.