This documentation set provides comprehensive guidance on implementing and managing subscriptions with Stripe. It covers the entire lifecycle of a subscription, from initial integration design and pricing models to advanced features like prorations, billing cycles, and customer entitlements.

Key areas addressed include:

*   **Subscription Fundamentals:** Understanding how subscriptions work, their lifecycle, and core integration patterns.
*   **Pricing and Product Management:** Setting up various recurring pricing models (flat-rate, per-seat, tiered, usage-based), managing product catalogs, and configuring prices.
*   **Subscription Lifecycle Management:** Creating, modifying, canceling, pausing, and backdating subscriptions. This also includes managing trials and subscription schedules.
*   **Billing and Invoicing:** Configuring billing cycles, handling prorations, enabling flexible billing modes, and understanding prebilling.
*   **Payment Methods and Processing:** Integrating with a wide range of local and international payment methods (ACH Direct Debit, Amazon Pay, Bacs Direct Debit, BECS Direct Debit, Boleto, Cash App Pay, iDEAL, Kakao Pay, Klarna, Korean Cards, Naver Pay, PayPal, Pix, PayTo, Revolut Pay, SEPA Direct Debit, Stablecoins, TWINT, US bank accounts, etc.), integrating with third-party payment processors, and setting up payment methods per-subscription.
*   **Advanced Features:** Utilizing entitlements for feature access control, managing subscription events with webhooks, and migrating existing subscriptions to Stripe.
*   **Customer Experience:** Embedding pricing tables, using Stripe Checkout, and enabling customer self-service through the customer portal.
*   **Platform-Specific Integrations:** Guidance for managing subscriptions on iOS.
*   **Scripting:** Information on Stripe's TypeScript-based scripting language for billing automation.

This collection of documents is essential for developers and businesses looking to leverage Stripe for their recurring revenue models, offering detailed instructions and best practices for a robust subscription system.