Topic

Subscription payments

How renewals are billed, authenticated, taxed and disputed — across markets.

• How Subscription Payments Work: Vaulting, Renewals and Consent Start here What happens when a subscription renews: vaulted payment methods, merchant-initiated charges, why the first payment matters most, and where renewals go wrong.
• Selling Subscriptions in Multiple Currencies on Shopify How subscriptions work across currencies on Shopify: renewing in the currency the customer bought in, pricing per market, and what exchange rates do to your margin.
• Pre-Renewal Reminder Emails: The Message That Prevents Chargebacks Telling subscribers before you charge them reduces disputes and turns cancellations into skips. When to send renewal reminders, what to put in them, and where.
• Sales Tax and VAT on Subscriptions: What Changes on Renewal Tax on a subscription isn't set once. It generally follows the delivery address on each renewal — and subscribers move. What to check across US sales tax, VAT.
• Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and Subscription Renewals How Europe's Strong Customer Authentication affects subscription renewals — why the first payment is authenticated, why renewals usually aren't, and why some.
• Subscription Chargebacks: Why They Happen and How to Prevent Them Most subscription chargebacks are customers who didn't expect a charge or couldn't find how to cancel. How to prevent them, and why they cost far more than a.
• Which Payment Methods Work for Subscriptions? Not every payment method can be charged again later. Which ones support subscription renewals, why some disappear at a subscription checkout, and which reduce.