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The Subscription Update and Cancellation flow 1.3 (Cancelling a subscription)
The Subscription Update and Cancellation flow 1.3 (Cancelling a subscription)
Let’s now implement the final use case: when a user wants to cancel their subscription. The cancellation workflow happens in two stages: - Stage 1: The user initiates the cancellation. This schedules the subscription to end at the end of the current billing cycle. At this point, the subscription is marked as canceled but remains active until the cycle ends. - Stage 2: Once the billing cycle ends, the subscription status changes to inactive, and the user no longer has access to paid features.
Payments
Learning Highlights
- 0:45
Understanding why cancellation flows require two-stage processing in SaaS applications, users schedule cancellation immediately but retain access until the billing cycle ends.
- 1:00
Learn how cancel_at_period_end: true signals a scheduled cancellation in Stripe webhooks, allowing users to maintain feature access through their paid billing period.
- 3:06
How to implement subscription cancellation using Vibe Coding Academy's ready-to-use prompts that handle both the scheduling and deletion stages automatically.
- 6:06
Discover the technique of manually canceling subscriptions in Stripe to simulate future billing cycles for testing cancellation workflows without waiting for actual period end dates.
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The Subscription Update and Cancellation flow 1.3 (Cancelling a subscription)
Implement a two-step cancellation flow: schedule end of billing and remove access when it ends.
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