Stripe
Subscription Billing
Manage recurring payments for wine clubs, SaaS products, or membership programs with automatic invoicing and retry logic.
Stripe's subscription billing handles the full lifecycle of recurring payments — initial signup, automatic monthly or annual charges, prorated upgrades or downgrades, failed payment retries, invoice generation, and cancellation. The system sends automated emails for upcoming charges, successful payments, and failed attempts, keeping your customers informed without manual effort.
For Okanagan businesses with membership or subscription models, this automation is invaluable. A winery's wine club charges members quarterly and needs to handle adding new members, pausing deliveries, upgrading tiers, and managing expired cards. A Kelowna gym or yoga studio needs monthly membership billing with the ability to offer annual discounts. A SaaS product built in the Okanagan needs tiered pricing with usage-based add-ons.
The smart retry logic is particularly important for reducing involuntary churn. When a customer's credit card is declined — usually due to an expired card rather than lack of funds — Stripe automatically retries the charge on an optimized schedule and sends the customer a link to update their payment method. For a Penticton wine club or a Summerland wellness membership, this automated recovery process saves revenue that would otherwise be lost to simple payment failures.