A Payment Failed — What Do I Do?
What this page will cover
Section titled “What this page will cover”- Step 1: Find out about the failure (email notification, Failing Subscriptions report)
- Step 2: Check the failure reason (expired card, insufficient funds, card blocked)
- Step 3: Contact the member and ask them to update their payment method
- Step 4: How to add a new payment method from the member’s profile
- Step 5: Retry the payment manually after the new card is added
- Step 6: If payment still fails — check with the member, consider temporarily suspending their membership
- Stripe’s automatic retry schedule (Stripe retries for you — how many times and when)
- When the subscription is automatically cancelled by Stripe after too many failures