This documentation group covers **Stripe Subscriptions**, a comprehensive system for managing recurring payments and customer billing. It details how to set up, configure, and manage subscriptions, including various pricing models, payment methods, and advanced features.

Here's a breakdown of the key areas covered:

*   **Core Subscription Functionality:**
    *   **Overview of Subscriptions:** Understanding how subscriptions work, their lifecycle, and key features like recurring payments, discount management, trials, and customer self-service.
    *   **Building a Subscription Integration:** Guides on designing and building subscription integrations, covering product catalogs, customer registration, payment collection, and monitoring.
    *   **Pricing Models:** Detailed explanations of different recurring pricing models, including flat rate, per-seat, tiered, and usage-based pricing.
    *   **Billing Cycles:** How to set and manage subscription billing renewal dates and billing cycle anchors.
    *   **Trials:** Configuring free or paid trial offers for subscriptions.
    *   **Coupons and Promotion Codes:** Applying discounts to subscriptions and subscription items.
    *   **Entitlements:** Mapping product features to subscription status for granting or revoking access.

*   **Subscription Management and Modification:**
    *   **Modifying Subscriptions:** How to change existing subscriptions, including prorated charges and credits, and managing pending updates.
    *   **Canceling Subscriptions:** Procedures for canceling subscriptions, including automatic cancellation after failed payment attempts.
    *   **Pausing Subscriptions:** Options for pausing subscriptions, including pausing service delivery and invoice generation, or just pausing payment collection.
    *   **Backdating Subscriptions:** How to bill customers for elapsed time and set backdated start dates.
    *   **Subscription Schedules:** Automating changes to subscriptions over time using phases and end behaviors.
    *   **Billing Modes:** Comparing and enabling "classic" and "flexible" billing modes for increased flexibility and access to new features.
    *   **Prorations:** Understanding and managing prorated charges for partial use when subscriptions are modified.
    *   **Pre-billing:** Billing customers in advance for multiple service periods.

*   **Payment Methods and Integrations:**
    *   **Collecting Payment Methods:** Setting up payment methods for subscriptions with no initial payment using SetupIntents.
    *   **Payment Methods per Subscription:** Specifying available payment methods for individual subscriptions.
    *   **Local Payment Methods:** Guides on setting up subscriptions with various local payment methods, including:
        *   ACH Direct Debit (US)
        *   Amazon Pay
        *   Bacs Direct Debit (UK)
        *   Bank Transfers
        *   BECS Direct Debit (Australia)
        *   Boleto (Brazil)
        *   Cash App Pay
        *   iDEAL with SEPA Direct Debit (EU)
        *   Kakao Pay (South Korea)
        *   Klarna
        *   Korean Cards
        *   Naver Pay (South Korea)
        *   PayTo (Australia)
        *   PayPal
        *   Pix (Brazil)
        *   Pre-authorized debit (Canada)
        *   Revolut Pay
        *   SEPA Direct Debit (EU)
        *   Stablecoins
        *   TWINT (Switzerland)
        *   Nigerian Cards
    *   **Third-Party Payment Processors:** Integrating Stripe subscriptions and invoices with external payment processors.

*   **Migration and Advanced Features:**
    *   **Migrating Subscriptions:** Using toolkits or Stripe APIs to migrate existing subscriptions to Stripe Billing.
    *   **Webhooks:** Using webhooks to receive notifications of subscription activity and manage asynchronous events.
    *   **Managing Subscriptions on iOS:** Using the Billing SDK for iOS to manage subscriptions and entitlements within an iOS app.
    *   **SaaS Integration:** General guidance on integrating a SaaS business on Stripe.
    *   **Script Language:** Information on Stripe's scripting language for advanced billing logic.

This collection of pages provides a comprehensive resource for anyone looking to implement or manage subscription-based billing with Stripe.