How to troubleshoot unexpected canceled payments in Stripe when users complete checkout? Answered

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TAYLOR DAVIDSON

Hello everyone,

I've got my checkout all set up and noticed some "canceled" payments in Stripe (image attached).

I'm wondering how this is possible?

I didn't cancel any payment.

If the user inputs their billing information and sign ups, I would expect to see a successful payment or failed payment.

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  • Comment author
    Tyler Bell

    This happens when a payment requires SCA (customer authentication via their bank).

    Stripe will automatically cancel a payment if the customer doesn't authenticate their payment with their bank within 1 hour.

    It's a normal part of how Stripe Billing works.

    it's not the same thing as a subscription being canceled.

    It's just the attempted payment to start the subscription wasn't completed, and then automatically canceled by stripe.

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  • Comment author
    TAYLOR DAVIDSON

    Ah so when the bank texts or calls the user to verify the payment?

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  • Comment author
    Tyler Bell

    exactly - doesn't happen to all payments. It just depends on where the user lives / the bank they have, etc.

    It's mainly an EU thing.

    We do have an abandoned checkout feature 🙂
    https://docs.memberstack.com/hc/en-us/articles/18314847235099

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    TAYLOR DAVIDSON

    Okay understood. Thank you. Good opportunity for an email automation.

    Amazing Tyler Bell Follow up on this:

    I noticed those emails with "cancelled payments" in Stripe under a "subscription creation" then have that plan added to their MS account as a new plan but it says "cancelled".

    This is very confusing as they never actually paid nor obviously had the plan.

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