Viewing the list of subscriptions of a specific customer

The "Subscriptions" section of the customer details screen allows you to manager the currently active subscriptions, as well as the customer's subscription history.

To view the subscription history click on the "View X canceled" link in the top-right corner of the section. To hide it, click on "Hide X canceled".

It's also possible to search and filter subscriptions.

Clicking on a specific subscription will provide additional visibility to the subscription details.

Subscriptions of plans and add-ons with an outdated (legacy) version will have a proper indication, and migration to the latest plan or add-on version can then take place.

Subscription statuses

Provisioning subscriptions

For the most part, provisioning of subscriptions should be done by customers in a self-served manner by the customer using the Stigg server SDK; however, it's also possible to manually create subscriptions from Stigg web application.

To provision a new subscription, click on the "+ Add" button under the Subscriptions section of the customer details screen.

In the opened screen, enter the required details:

1. Subscription content
   1. Product - relevant when more than one product is defined in the environment; otherwise, automatically preselected.
   2. Resource ID - the ID of the entity that the subscription applies to, for example: website ID, app ID, etc. Relevant for products that allow multiple active subscriptions.
   3. Plan
   4. Billing period (for paid plans) - monthly, annual
   5. Plan configuration
      1. The unit quantity of in-advance commitment charges and variable entitlements.
      2. Optionally for paid plans - override the default plan price of the relevant charges.
   6. Optional add-ons that are compatible with the selected plan.
2. Subscription schedule
   1. Start date - by default, subscriptions start immediately. When a subscription is created in a past start date, the customer will charged in their next billing period. When a subscription is created a in a future date, it will become scheduled to start on the entered future date.
3. Free trial - relevant for subscription to paid and custom plans. The plan's default trial configuration is pre-selected by default; however, it can be overridden at the subscription level.
4. Spend management of on-demand charges
   1. Minimum spend - customers will be charged in advance for this amount. On-demand charges will then be deducted from the committed minimum spend. On-demand charges that exceed the committed minimum spend will be added to customers' upcoming invoice. When a default minimum spend is defined at the plan level, this configuration is pre-selected; however, it can be overridden at the subscription level.
   2. Maximum spend - when the defined spending limit for the subscription is exceeded, additional access to pay-as-you-go charges is denied. With this configuration you can implement a budget cap in your application.
5. Discounts - the discount amount that will be applied to the subscription. Applying discounts is achieved by applying coupons to subscriptions.
6. Payment
   1. Automatically using the payment method on file - when Stigg integrated with a billing solution (such as Stripe), a valid payment method is required to provision a subscription for a paid plan. The payment method can be provided by a customer in advance, or during the provisioning of the subscription itself in the Stigg Console.
   2. Generate an invoice - useful when customers pay using a wire transfer or in order to collect customer's payment method using a payment link.
   3. Don't leverage Stigg to manage payments for this subscription.

Review the subscription summary.

Confirm the creation of the subscription by clicking on the "Create" button.

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1. A customer can have at most one active trial and one non-trial (free or paid) subscription for a specific product. When the customer has a trial subscription and new trial subscription to the same product is provisioned, the current trial subscription will be canceled at the start date of the new trial subscription.
2. When the customer has a active non-trial (free or paid) subscription and new non-trial subscription to the same product is provisioned - the current non-trial subscription will be canceled at the start date of the new non-trial subscription.
3. When the customer has an active trial subscription to a specific plan, and a paid subscription for the same plan is created is created (= an upgrade from a trial subscription to a paid subscription), the paid plan will start at the end of the trial period.
4. In the self-served flow:
   1. Customers can only have one free trial per product. Admins can manually create additional trial subscriptions using the Stigg Console.
   2. When a customer has already paid for a plan, they'll no longer be eligible for a free trial - the reasoning behind this behavior is that free trials are intended to allow customers to try the product before they pay for it. If they already paid for it, they don't need to try it.

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When Stigg is integrated with a billing solution, in order to create a paid subscription, the customer must have a valid payment method that can be used for billing the subscription.

For the most part, payment method are entered by customers during the checkout process when they attempt to pay for a paid subscription; however, Stigg also allows admins to add payment method on their behalf when customer don't have a defined payment method. This functionality is helpful when a tech support or customer success representative is assisting a customer in completing their subscription.

When admins attempt to create a paid subscription and the customer doesn't have a valid payment method, admins will be prompted to add a valid payment method in order to complete the creation of the subscription.

The customer's payment method is stored directly in the billing solution that's integrated with Stigg (for example: Stripe). The information is never stored in Stigg itself.

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Stigg pursues a "generous" behavior towards customers; that is, if a customer has both an active subscription and a trial subscription, the configuration value or quota that's more generous between these subscriptions will prevail.

Determining the bottom line of the functionality that the customer is eligible for is possible using the entitlement summary view.

Viewing the details of a specific subscription

Clicking on a specific subscription from the table of the "Subscriptions" section of the customer details screen allows you to view the details about the subscription.

Overview

A high-level summary of the subscription details:

1. Subscription ID
2. Status
3. Resource ID - the ID of the entity that the subscription applies to, for example: website ID, app ID, etc. Relevant for products that allow multiple active subscriptions.
4. Billing ID - relevant when Stigg is integrated with a billing solution, such as: Stripe.
5. CRM - relevant when Stigg is integrated with a CRM solution, such as: Salesforce and HubSpot.
6. Plan
7. Billing period - i.e. monthly, annually
8. Subscription start date
9. Last invoice
10. Next billing date
11. Next estimated bill
12. Add-ons
13. When the subscription has scheduled updates (for example: downgrade to a lower tier) - details about what updates are currently scheduled to take effect and when.

Entitlement usage

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Details of a subscription's entitlement usage are only available for active subscriptions.

Entitlement summary

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Details of a subscription's entitlement usage are only available for active subscriptions.

Storing metadata

It's possible to store metadata on each subscription. The metadata can then be leveraged by the hosting application and third-party solutions via the Stigg SDKs, API and webhooks to implement custom functionality.

To store metadata on specific product, under the "Metadata" section of selected subscription click on the "Add" (if there's no metadata) or "Edit" buttons.

Enter the relevant keys and values.

Click "Add" (if there was previously no metadata) or "Save changes" buttons to apply the changes.

Updating subscriptions

Active subscriptions can be updated after they're provisioned, specifically:

1. Billing period (for paid plans) - monthly, annual
2. Plan configuration
3. 1. The unit quantity of in-advance commitment charges and variable entitlements.
   2. Optionally for paid plans - override the default plan price of the relevant charges.
4. Add-ons - adding, removing and updating the quantity of add-ons.
5. Trial period - extending, shortening and removal the trial period.
6. Spend management of on-demand charges - minimum spend, maximum spend.
7. Discounts - adding, removing and updating the coupons that are applied to the subscription.

To update an active subscription, click on the dotted menu icon of the relevant row, and select the "Update subscription" action.

Apply the relevant changes.

Review the subscription summary.

Confirm the update of the subscription by clicking on the "Update" button.

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To change the plan of an existing subscription or update the billing period, provision a new subscription.

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When a subscription that has scheduled updates (for example: downgrade to a lower tier) is updated again using the Stigg Console:

1. The updates will override the scheduled updates.
2. The updates will be applied immediately.

Canceling subscriptions

To cancel a subscription, click on the dotted menu icon of the relevant row, and select the "Cancel subscription" action.

In the opened modal, select when the subscription will be cancelled:

1. At the end of the current billing cycle or trial period - not relevant for plans with a custom price or trial subscriptions.
2. Immediately
3. On a specific date - not relevant for trial periods.

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The subscription cancelation period will be pre-selected according to the product's default behavior.

The subscription cancellation logic (revoke access to the subscription entitlements or downgrade the the customer to a free plan) is also determined according to this behavior.

Confirm the action by clicking on the "Cancel subscription" button in the opened modal.

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1. Subscriptions that have been canceled will appear with a "Canceled" status.
2. Subscriptions that are still pending cancelation will appear with a "Cancelation scheduled" status.

Canceling scheduled updates

When a subscription has scheduled updates, users that have access to the Stigg Console can cancel the scheduled update.

To do so, in the subscription details view, click on the "Cancel update" action.

Confirm the action by clicking on the "Cancel" button in the opened modal.

Handling payment errors

When payment for a subscription fails, the subscription will appear with a "Payment error" status, as well as with a description of the error that was encountered.

When applicable, Stigg will provide you with a payment link that you can copy and send to the relevant customer, or open directly from the Stigg app to complete the payment for the subscription.

In any case, customers will only have access to entitlements that they paid for.

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Receiving notifications about failed payments requires Stigg to be integrated with a billing solution.

Payment failure when provisioning new subscriptions

When payment for a new subscription fails, customers will not have access to the entitlements of the new subscription.

Once payment is completed successfully, they subscription will become active and the customer will be granted access to the entitlements of the new subscription.

Payment failure when updating an existing subscription

When payment for an update of an existing subscription fails, customers will still have access to the entitlements of the subscription before the update attempt took place. This is also indicated by the fact the subscription as an "Active" status in addition to the "Payment error" status.

In this state, the following flows are supported:

1. Canceling the update, which will keep customers with the same entitlements that they had before the subscription update attempt.
2. Completing the payment, which will cause the subscription update to take effect and grant the customer with the relevant entitlements.

Failure of a recurring payment

When a recurring payment fails, customers will still have access to the entitlements of their subscription until the subscription is canceled by the billing solution that's integrated with Stigg. This is also indicated by the fact the subscription as an "Active" status in addition to the "Payment error" status.

If you leverage Stripe for billing and integrate it with Stigg, the following resources can be useful:

Receiving notifications about failed payments

Receiving notifications about failed payments is possible by leveraging Stigg's customer.payment_failed webhook. More details about Stigg's webhooks can be found below:

Migrating subscriptions to the latest plan or add-on version

When changes to plans and add-ons are rolled out only to new subscriptions, grandfathering takes place. In order to prevent a SKU sprawl, Stigg allows you to manually migrate subscriptions to the latest plan and add-on version on a subscription-by-subscription basis.

To do so, in the subscription details view, click on the dotted menu icon of the relevant row, and select the "Migrate to latest" action.

Select when the migration will take place - at the end of the current subscription period or immediately.

Confirm the action by clicking on the "Migrate" button in the opened modal.

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When the subscription is scheduled to take place immediately, when the current price of the subscription is different than the latest published package version, during the migration the customer will be charged or credited the prorated amount until the end of the current billing period depending on whether the latest price is more expensive or cheaper than the current subscription price.

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Migration can also be invoked programmatically via our Node.js SDK and GraphQL API for each subscription, which allow you to rollout subscriptions to your existing customers gradually.