Laravel cashier 6 renew subscription after cancellation

You should not delete the subscription but rather cancel it from your stripe dashboard. If you delete it, it's impossible to resume it. Cancel it instead.

Thank you @Francismori7 for your response! I was imitating card payment failure using Stripe special card number 4000000000000341. It works as cancellation, but result is the same .

@Francismori7 Also, there is handleCustomerSubscriptionDeleted method in \Laravel\Cashier\Http\Controllers\WebhookController@handleWebhook which is fired when subscription is deleted or cancelled. So, it should be some way of resuming subscription after this webhook was handled.

My solution at this moment:

public function resume()
    {
        $user = Auth::user();
        $subscription = $user->subscription(ServicePackageRepository::SUBSCRIPTION_NAME);

        if ($subscription->cancelled() && $subscription->onGracePeriod()) { 
            //if it was cancelled by user in grace period
            $subscription->resume();

            return $this->respondWithSaved([]);
        } else { //if cancelled by payment failure or smth else...
            if($user->subscription(ServicePackageRepository::SUBSCRIPTION_NAME)) {
                $user->newSubscription(ServicePackageRepository::SUBSCRIPTION_NAME,
                        $user->subscription(ServicePackageRepository::SUBSCRIPTION_NAME)->stripe_plan)
                    ->create();

                return $this->respondWithSaved([]);
            } else {
                return $this->respondWithError([]);
            }
        }
    }

@ukietech The problem resides in Stripe's API. When you cancel the subscription, it still exists on your stripe account. When you delete it, it is completely removed.

Laravel Cashier cannot see the difference between those two events (customer.subscription.deleted) because they are the same. Cashier keeps the subscription ID associated with the user to allow resuming it. However, if the subscription was DELETED entirely, it cannot be resumed since it doesn't exist anymore.

@Francismori7 Agree with that. The main difference was in swap() method. In 5th version it was creating new subscription if it does not exists, and in 6 version it just throws an exception - not very convenient.