# Your first test subscription

Subscribe to your plan from your own app with Stripe's test card, the way a customer will, and see the subscription in your app and in the console.

The last check is the one your customers make: choose a plan on your pricing page, pay on Stripe's checkout page, and come back to an app that knows they subscribed. In test mode, Stripe's test card pays and no money moves.

> **Note:**

- The earlier guides done: [Stripe connected](/billing-setup/connect-stripe) with its webhook endpoint, a [published plan](/billing-setup/first-plan) in a [published pricing group](/billing-setup/pricing-group), and the pricing page from that guide in your app.
- Your app running with the SDK, and a test account in it: any new sign-up will do.

## 1. Choose the plan on your pricing page

Sign in to your app as the test customer and open your pricing page. Press **Choose Pro**.

![The app's pricing page with the Pro plan and the Choose Pro button highlighted as step 1](/images/billing-setup/first-subscription/app-pricing.webp)

`selectPlan` opens the workspace's plan dialog with Pro chosen. A visitor who is not signed in is sent to sign in first.

## 2. Subscribe

**Choose Your Plan** shows the plan for the customer's workspace: its price in the chosen **Currency** and interval, what it includes, a field for a promotion code, and the renewal terms beside the button. Press **Subscribe**.

![Choose Your Plan for Jordan Lee's Workspace: USD, Monthly, Pro at $29.00 a month with its renewal terms, the Subscribe button highlighted as step 2, and Priority support, Team members 10 and Reports per month 100 a month then $0.50 each](/images/billing-setup/first-subscription/sdk-choose-plan.webp)

## 3. Continue to payment

**Change to Pro** shows what Stripe will charge today, before any payment. Press **Continue to payment**.

![Change to Pro, Monthly: Due today $29.00, the note that amounts are from Stripe, the renewal terms, and the Continue to payment button highlighted beside Back](/images/billing-setup/first-subscription/sdk-change-preview.webp)

## 4. Pay with Stripe's test card

Stripe's checkout page opens, with the plan and the renewal terms. Under **Payment method** choose **Card**, and enter Stripe's test card:

| Field              | Value                                     |
| ------------------ | ----------------------------------------- |
| Card number        | `4242 4242 4242 4242`                     |
| Expiry             | Any date in the future, such as `12 / 34` |
| CVC                | Any three digits                          |
| Name and post code | Anything                                  |

Untick **Save my information with Link**, or Stripe asks for a phone number too. Press **Subscribe**. Stripe's [testing page](https://docs.stripe.com/testing) lists cards that decline or ask for 3-D Secure, to try those paths as well.

## 5. Back in your app

Stripe sends the customer back to your app, where **Plan & Billing** reads "Confirming your subscription..." until Stripe's webhook reaches BuildBase. Then it shows the plan, **Active**, with the next billing date and what the plan includes.

![Plan & Billing in the app: Pro, Active, $29.00 a month, Next billing December 4, 2026, Manage Payment, Cancel Subscription, and Priority support, Team members 10 and Reports per month](/images/billing-setup/first-subscription/sdk-plan-active.webp)

## Check that it worked

[Open subscriptions in the console](https://console.buildbase.app/dashboard/admin/subscriptions)

In the console, **Billing** > **Subscriptions** lists the workspace on **Pro**, **active**, **Monthly**, in **USD**.

![Billing > Subscriptions in the console: the Overview chart with one new subscription today, and the list with Jordan Lee's Workspace on Pro, active, Monthly, USD, created just now](/images/billing-setup/first-subscription/console-subscriptions.webp)

**Billing** > **Payment webhooks** lists the events Stripe sent for it, each marked **Test**: `checkout.session.completed`, `customer.subscription.created`, and the invoice events with the amount paid. **Details** on a row shows the event as BuildBase received it.

![Billing > Payment webhooks: checkout.session.completed, invoice.created, invoice.finalized, invoice.paid, invoice.payment_succeeded, customer.subscription.created, charge.succeeded, payment_method.attached, payment_intent.succeeded and customer.updated, each in test mode, with Details](/images/billing-setup/first-subscription/console-payment-webhooks.webp)

The workspace's own page (**User management** > **Workspaces**, then the workspace) shows its **Subscription** card: the plan, **Active**, how it bills, when the current period ends, and the features, limits and quotas the plan gives.

![The workspace's Subscription card: Pro, Status Active, Billing Monthly, Current period ends December 4, 2026, the Priority support feature, Team members 10 in plan and Reports per month 100 included in plan](/images/billing-setup/first-subscription/console-workspace-subscription.webp)

## If something goes wrong

| What you see                                   | Why                                                        | Fix                                                                                                                                           |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Confirming your subscription...** never ends | Stripe's events do not reach BuildBase                     | Run **Check Stripe setup** under **Billing** > **Credentials** and fix the webhook endpoint ([Connect Stripe](/billing-setup/connect-stripe)) |
| The pricing page shows no plans                | No published version of the pricing group, or another slug | Publish the group, and use its slug in `PricingPage` ([Your pricing group](/billing-setup/pricing-group))                                     |
| "Plan version not found" at checkout           | The plan version is in no pricing group                    | Add it to a group version and publish it                                                                                                      |
| Stripe asks for a phone number                 | **Save my information with Link** is ticked                | Untick it                                                                                                                                     |

## Next steps

- [Managing subscriptions](/billing/managing-subscriptions) - what you can change for a customer from the console
- [Failed payments](/billing/failed-payments) - what happens when a renewal is declined
- [Billing overview](/billing/overview) - trials, plan changes and the SDK's billing hooks