A Stripe Plan Change Is Not Reflected in the App
Quick Answer
The app stores plan state in more than one place or only listens for the first purchase. Upgrades and downgrades then update Stripe, but the app keeps using stale local plan logic or stale database fields. Start with "Model plan state explicitly" before making broader code changes.
Quick Fix Summary
| Most likely cause | The app stores plan state in more than one place or only listens for the first purchase. Upgrades and downgrades then update Stripe, but the app keeps using stale local plan logic or stale database fields. |
| Fastest fix | Model plan state explicitly |
| Use this page if | User upgraded but still sees old limits |
You're in the right place if...
- !User upgraded but still sees old limits
- !User downgraded but app still shows the old plan
- !Stripe changed the plan correctly but the app did not update features or quotas
Why this happens
The app stores plan state in more than one place or only listens for the first purchase. Upgrades and downgrades then update Stripe, but the app keeps using stale local plan logic or stale database fields.
Fix
Model plan state explicitly
Your subscriptions table should store the effective plan, status, and renewal window instead of forcing the UI to infer them from scattered fields.
Handle subscription.updated events as first-class events
Many plan-change bugs happen because the webhook handles initial creation but treats updates as optional.
Refresh quotas and feature flags from the server-trusted plan
If limits, credits, or features depend on the plan, calculate them from the updated server record rather than from the plan name cached in the browser.
Patch the generated plan-sync logic
Tell Lovable to treat upgrades and downgrades as real state transitions, not edge cases.
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Audit this app so Stripe subscription upgrades and downgrades update one server-trusted plan record. Refetch that record after payment or portal changes and make quotas, credits, and feature gates read from that same updated plan state.
Prevent this next time
If your app has more than one place where the current plan can live, plan drift is only a matter of time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Because many implementations only build the happy path for the first checkout and treat later state transitions as an afterthought.
A server-trusted subscriptions or entitlements record that already reflects the latest Stripe plan state.
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