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Why has a customer's card payment failed?
Why has a customer's card payment failed?

Learn how to determine why a customer's card payment has failed

Updated over 5 months ago

From time to time, a customer's payment card may fail. Usually, this is related to insufficient funds or the card needing to be updated. Stripe will automatically retry the payment for about a week. The steps below will help you determine why the card is failing.


In the customer's subscription, hit "View on Stripe".

In Stripe, scroll down to the Payments section and click on the failed payment. This shows the payment related to this specific invoice. When you click on this payment you will see the payment attempts and the decline code, which will give you the reason for the failed payment:


Retrying Payments


Changing customer card details

This article details how to change a customers card details

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