Stripe event: customer.subscription.deleted, deprovision now, this is terminal
# customer.subscription.deleted: revoke access, close the books
When this event arrives, the subscription has ended. Period.
## What to do on receipt
1. Look up your user by the subscription id. Revoke the plan's entitlements: downgrade to free, suspend the account, whatever your offboarding is.
2. Decide data retention per your policy: keep the data for a grace window or delete it. Tell the customer which one you did.
3. Mark the subscription `canceled` in your records with the timestamp. Keep the record; you will want it for win-back campaigns and for answering "why was I charged" questions.
4. Return 200.
## The trap
Deprovisioning on the cancellation request instead of on this event. When a customer cancels with `cancel_at_period_end`, you get `customer.subscription.updated` first and `deleted` only when the paid period actually ends. Cutting access at the request is both wrong (they paid) and a good way to manufacture disputes. The other trap: confusing a paused subscription with a deleted one. Pause is a different state; check `pause_collection` before you assume.
## Checklist
- Subscriptions deleted immediately (no period end) arrive here too. Same handling: the event means it is over now.
- If the customer resubscribes later, that is a new `customer.subscription.created` with a new id. Do not resurrect the old record; link them by customer.Find related guidance
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