06021 – How can my clients update their credit card

If you offer a subscription or payment plan, in some cases the credit card Stripe uses, may decline. There can be multiple reasons for that, but the top 2 reasons are:

+ Their bank does not authorize the transaction
+ There is not enough funds in their account


Here is what we recommend you do when a charge fails:

#1 – Customer’s Card is Active

If their card is OK, ask your client to contact their bank and authorize the transaction and future one’s from your company. This is a very frequent problem. We recently had this happen by our bank blocking Facebook from charging our card for advertising fees.


 

#2 – Stripe setup for credit card updates in case the customer’s card expires or their payment fails.

In case your customer’s card expires or their payment fails, then follow these steps:

  • As the page admin, login to your Stripe Account
  • Click on Settings on the left sidebar.
    Then, click on Subscriptions and emails.
  • In the Manage failed payments section, you can setup your Retry schedule.
    In Customer emails, set it to On and click the Eye symbol.
    A pop-up will open where you need to add your URL.
  • In the URL to update card, insert your KLEQ Stripe credit card update URL.
    The URL is: http://domainname.com/account/

  • Now every time a charge fails, Stripe will send your customers an email and they will be able to click on the link to update their card.
  • When they click the link on the email, they will land on the Member’s login page that will require them to enter their email and password.
  • Once logged in to their profile, they need to click on the Avatar icon > Billing > Subscriptions tab.
  • They simply need to click on the Update Card Details button.
  • They will be redirected to a page where they can insert their new credit card details.
  • Once completed the new card will become the default card and Stripe will use it moving forward.

 


 

#3 – Steps to be taken for customers to be able to update their credit cards.

If your customers need to update their credit cards, follow these steps:

  • Ask them to log in to the Members area.
  • Then click on the Avatar icon, they will see the Billing option available in the drop down.
  • The Billing pop up window will appear, they need to go to the Subscriptions tab.
    They simply need to click on the ellipsis () button to the far right side then select Update Card.
  • Once clicked, the clients will be redirected to a page where the cards can be updated for their payments.
  • Once completed, the new card will become the default card and Stripe will use it moving forward.

That’s it, Stripe will try to charge the card again based on the schedule you’ve set up in Retry Rules.

NOTE: If you are using PayPal, you would do everything on PayPal.


 

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