Operate customer billing workflows such as subscriptions, refunds, churn triage, billing-portal recovery, and plan analysis using connected billing tools like Stripe. Use when the user needs to help a customer, inspect subscription state, or manage revenue-impacting billing operations.
Use this skill for real customer operations, not generic payment API design.
The goal is to help the operator answer: who is this customer, what happened, what is the safest fix, and what follow-up should we send?
Start from the strongest identifier available:
Return a concise identity summary:
Put the case into one bucket before acting:
| Case | Typical action |
|---|---|
| Duplicate personal subscription | cancel extras, consider refund |
| Real multi-seat/team intent | preserve seats, clarify billing model |
| Failed payment / incomplete checkout | recover via portal or update payment method |
| Missing self-serve controls | provide portal, cancellation path, or invoice access |
| Product failure or trust break | refund, apologize, log product issue |
Preferred order:
If the fix requires product work, separate:
If the customer pain comes from a missing operator surface, call it out explicitly. Common examples:
Treat those as ECC or website follow-up items, not just support incidents.
End with:
Use this structure:
CUSTOMER
- name / email
- relevant account identifiers
BILLING STATE
- active subscriptions
- invoice or renewal state
- anomalies
DECISION
- issue classification
- why this action is correct
ACTION TAKEN
- refund / cancel / portal / no-op
FOLLOW-UP
- short customer message
PRODUCT GAP
- what should be fixed in the product or website