Pausing or suspending your customer's subscription temporarily disables your customer's billing. This can be done in the case that your customer is temporarily unavailable to be billed. For example, your customer may wish to temporarily disable their subscription while they are on vacation and resume it when they return. Learn to pause your customer's subscription.
In this article:
Pause subscriptions
Pause your customer's subscription if their payments were processed through Stripe to disable your customer's billing temporarily directly from Kajabi.
To pause a customer's subscription:
- Open the Contacts tab from your Dashboard.
- Select the name of your customer and Open full profile.
- Open the Purchases tab.
- Select More Info for the Offer to refund.
- Select the Offer you wish to pause.
- Then, open the More Actions menu (
…). - And select Pause Payments.
- Confirm your intention to pause the subscription by clicking Pause Subscription in the prompt:
After pausing your customer's subscription, the site admin will receive a notification in the email address associated with the account notifying you of the change.
To resume a customer's subscription:
- Open the Contacts tab from your Dashboard.
- Select the contact you wish to pause.
- Click Purchases.
- Select the Paused Offer.
- Then, open the More Actions menu (
…). - Click Resume Payments.
- Confirm your intention to resume the subscription by clicking Resume Subscription in the prompt:
After resuming your customer's subscription, the site admin will receive a notification in the email address associated with the account notifying you of the change.
Manually pause your customer's subscription
If you do not want to use the Pause subscription feature, you can also pause subscriptions with the following method.
First, identify the payment method.
- Open the Contacts tab from the Dashboard.
- Select the Customer you wish to pause/suspend their account.
- Click View More for Total offers in the Contact Preview.
- Then, select View next to the Offer you wish to pause.
- Determine if your customer processed their payment as a PayPal Customer or a Stripe Customer:
Now, that you have identified your customer's payment method read the guide for:
Stripe
With Stripe, you can manually pause recurring subscriptions for Active Customers and configure the invoice behavior directly from your Stripe account.
Check out Stripe's Support for more details.
Pause Stripe subscription
Pause payments processed through Stripe directly from your Stripe account.
Learn to pause subscriptions in Stripe.
Then, temporarily revoke product access.
- Open the Contacts tab from the Dashboard.
- Select the Customer you wish to pause/suspend their account.
- Click View More for Total offers in the Contact Preview.
- Then, select More Info next to the Offer you wish to pause.
- Click Revoke Product next to all Product(s) you wish to temporarily revoke.
- In the popup confirmation, click Yes, Revoke access:
Reactivate Stripe subscription
If you chose to pause your customers' subscription indefinitely, you will need to resume the subscription manually in Stripe when you are ready to resume their subscription.
Learn to pause and resume subscriptions on Stripe.
When it is time to reactivate your customer's Product Access:
- Open the Contacts tab from the Dashboard.
- Select the Customer you wish to pause/suspend their account.
- Click View More for Total offers in the Contact Preview.
- Then, select More Info next to the revoked Offer.
- Click Resume all products to reactivate product access:
PayPal
PayPal allows you to suspend and reactivate your Customer's Subscription with your PayPal Business or Premier account. Click here to learn about suspending and reactivating a Subscription in PayPal.
Pause PayPal subscription
Suspend subscription
- Log into your PayPal Business or Premier account.
- Click Activity in the top menu.
- Open the All transactions dropdown menu.
- Select Subscription payments.
- Locate the subscription you wish to suspend and click the subscription name.
- Click Suspend.
- Confirm in the popup and click Suspend Profile:
Revoke access
- Open the Contacts tab from the Dashboard.
- Select the Customer you wish to pause/suspend their account.
- Click View More for Total offers in the Contact Preview.
- Then, select View next to the Offer you wish to pause.
- Click Revoke all products to temporarily revoke all Product(s) included with the Offer.
- In the popup confirmation, click Yes, revoke access:
Reactivate PayPal subscription
- Log into your PayPal Business or Premier account.
- Click Activity in the top menu.
- Open the All transactions dropdown menu.
- Select Subscription payments.
- Locate the subscription you wish to reactivate and click the subscription name.
- Click Reactivate.
- Confirm in the popup and click Reactivate Profile:
When it is time to reactivate your Customer's Access:
- Open the Contacts tab from the Dashboard.
- Select the Customer you wish to pause/suspend their account.
- Click View More for Total offers in the Contact Preview.
- Then, select More Info next to the revoked Offer.
- Click Resume all products to reactivate product access:
Set up an automation to revoke access
In some cases, you may wish to set an Automation to easily revoke Offer access to your paused customers by simply adding a Tag.
Using Tags can also help identify customers you have paused by filtering your Contacts tab by Tags or by creating Segments with Tags.
This can streamline the process if you are temporarily pausing your customer's subscriptions on a regular basis.
Learn to set an Automation with your Growth or Pro Plans:
- Open the Marketing tab from the Dashboard.
- Click Automations.
- In the top right corner, click + New Automation.
- In the When dropdown menu, select Tag is added.
- Enter your Tag name in the Add Tag field. We recommend including the name of the Offer that is revoked when this tag is applied to easily assign the correct Tag to your customers. (For example, Subscription Offer)
- In the Then dropdown menu, select Revoke an offer.
- Select the Offer you wish to be revoked when your Tag is added (In this example, the Subscription Offer).
- Then, click Save to keep your changes:
Repeat for each Offer you wish to automatically revoke access to when the specified tag is applied to a customer.
With tags, you can now easily identify customers you have paused by filtering your Contacts tab by your newly created tag.
Ready to reactivate your customer's Offer Access?
Reactivate your customer's Offer Access while maintaining their Product Start Date and connected payments by removing the Tag from their Profile and manually reactivating your customer's Offer Access from within your Stripe or PayPal account.
And that’s how to pause your customer's subscription! Please vote below and let us know if you found this article helpful. We value your feedback. Thanks for being the best part of Kajabi!
