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Changing a subscription's payment method

Each subscription can be charged to a specific saved payment method. This lets you pay one site or service with a different card from the rest of your account. If a subscription has no card of its own, it falls back to your workspace default.

This guide covers pointing an existing subscription at a different saved card. To save a new card to your account in the first place, see Adding a payment method.

Before you start

  • You need billing-management permission on the account. If you can't open Billing or don't see the subscription's Change button, ask an account owner or billing administrator to grant it.
  • Trial accounts don't have subscriptions to manage this way.
  • If your workspace inherits billing from a parent workspace, subscriptions and payment methods are managed on the parent. The Billing page shows Billing managed by {parent} with a Switch to {parent} button — switch there first.
  • You'll usually want a card already saved. If none is saved, you can add one while changing the payment method (see step 5).

Change the card on a subscription

  1. Open Billing. In the account sidebar, choose Billing, then open the Subscriptions tab.

  2. Find the subscription. The Subscriptions list shows each subscription with its Status, Billing interval, Next billing date, Est. next charge, and Items. Click View on the one you want to change.

  3. Open the payment-method picker. On the subscription page, find the Payment method card. It shows the card currently in use, or "Using the workspace default payment method." if the subscription has no card of its own. Click Change.

  4. Pick a saved card. The picker lists your saved payment methods with the brand, last four digits, and expiry. Select the one you want this subscription to use, then click Save.

  5. Or add a new card. If the card you want isn't saved yet, click Add a new payment method. Fill in the secure Stripe payment form, then click Save and use for this subscription — the new card is saved to your account and assigned to this subscription in one step.

After you save, you're returned to the subscription page with the confirmation "Payment method updated for this subscription." The Payment method card now shows the card you selected. Future charges for this subscription use that card.

There is no API endpoint for changing a subscription's payment method — this is a dashboard-only action. The Subscriptions API is read-only: it can list subscriptions and show one, but not modify billing settings. See the Subscriptions API for the available read endpoints.

Where the charge falls back

If a subscription has never had a card explicitly assigned, it uses your workspace default payment method. The picker assigns one of your saved cards — there is no "use workspace default" or clear option. To point a subscription back at the workspace default, select that default card in the picker.

This only changes one subscription

Setting a card here affects just this subscription. To change the card used as the account-wide default for everything else, set a different saved method as the default from the Payment Methods card on the Billing Overview tab instead — see Adding a payment method.

Make sure the new card stays valid

The card you assign is what SuperSpace charges on each renewal. If it expires or is declined, the subscription can go past due and, if left unpaid, the service can be suspended. Keep the assigned card current, or point the subscription back at a working method before the next billing date shown on the subscription page.

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