payment.failed

A provider rejects a charge.

Ability to subscribeproject-subscription:view

When this fires

A payment provider rejects a charge: invalid card, insufficient funds, gateway risk, expired source. Emitted by Stripe, CeyPay, CoinPayments, Paystack, Razorpay and Skrill. PayPal does not emit payment.failed; a failed PayPal charge surfaces only through the subscription-level events.

Caveats

  • The paired subscription event differs by provider: Razorpay emits subscription.past_due alongside; CeyPay, CoinPayments and Skrill instead cancel the subscription and emit subscription.cancelled; Paystack emits nothing alongside; for Stripe, subscription.past_due arrives separately when Stripe next syncs the subscription's status. Do not assume a subscription event accompanies every payment.failed.
  • A single billing cycle can produce multiple payment.failed events as the provider retries.

Related events

  • payment.succeeded: alternative outcome.
  • subscription.past_due: paired subscription event for recurring failures.

Header Parameters

SB-Signature*string

t=<unix seconds>,v1=<hex>: the HMAC-SHA256 of "<t>.<raw body>" under the endpoint's secret. Verify it before acting, and refuse a t more than 300 seconds from now. During a secret rotation a v0= signature under the previous secret may precede v1=.

SB-Event-Id*string

The event's ULID, bare. The envelope's id is the same ULID prefixed evt_, so strip the prefix before comparing. Deduplicate on it: a retry carries the same id.

SB-Event-Name*string

The event name, the same as the envelope's type.

Content-Type*string

Always application/json.

User-Agent*string

Always Subscriby-Webhooks/1.0.

Request Body

application/json

The signed JSON envelope posted to your endpoint.

TypeScript Definitions

Use the request body type in TypeScript.

The envelope every event is delivered in.

Response Body

Example Requests

POST/payment.failed

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