Events

Spark dispatches several events that you may intercept and handle based on your application’s needs. We will describe each of these events below.

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Spark\Events\SubscriptionCreated

This event is dispatched when a subscription becomes active. The event’s public properties include $billable and $subscription.

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Spark\Events\SubscriptionUpdated

This event is dispatched when a subscription is changed. Possible changes include plan changes, quantity changes, pausing a subscription, or resuming a subscription. The event’s public properties include $billable and $subscription.

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Spark\Events\SubscriptionCancelled

This event is dispatched when a subscription expires. This happens when a paused or cancelled subscription is no longer within its cancellation “grace period”. The event’s public properties include $billable and $subscription.

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Spark\Events\PaymentSucceeded

This event is dispatched when a new Stripe invoice is created. The event’s public properties include $billable and $invoice.

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Grace Periods

When a subscription is cancelled, Cashier will automatically set the subscription’s ends_at column in your database. This column is used to know when the billable’s subscribed method should begin returning false. For example, if a customer cancels a subscription on March 1st, but the subscription was not scheduled to end until March 5th, the subscribed method will continue to return true until March 5th. This is done because a user is typically allowed to continue using an application until the end of their billing cycle.