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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 a week ago

From time to time a customer's payment card may fail. Usually this is related to insufficient funds or the card needing updated. Stripe will automatically retry the payment for usually 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 into the failed payment. This shows the payment related to this specific invoice. When you click into 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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