Pause and Resume Subscriptions
Give customers a way to temporarily stop billing without fully canceling — keeping their account history and preferences intact for whenever they're ready to pick back up.
Pause a subscription
- Go to Payments > Subscriptions.
- Hover over the subscription and open the three-dot menu.
- Choose how the pause should work:
- Indefinite — stays paused until manually resumed.
- Custom date — automatically resumes on a date you set (you can still override this manually before then).
- Decide how invoices should be handled during the pause:
- Mark as void — stop invoice generation entirely while paused.
- Draft — keep invoices generating as drafts, ready to send once the subscription resumes, rather than sending them out during the pause.
Resume a subscription
Open the three-dot menu on the subscription, select Resume, and confirm. Billing picks back up according to the subscription's normal schedule.
Why use this instead of cancellation
Pausing avoids losing a customer's history, preferences, and billing setup the way a full cancellation would — it's a better fit for seasonal businesses, customers requesting a temporary hold, or any situation where you expect the relationship to continue.
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