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Review failed subscription payments before retrying

After automatic retries finish, review an unpaid or past-due product subscription and retry the oldest unpaid payment. This covers NMI, Authorize.Net, Square and Mercado Pago. Retrying does not itself confirm collection.

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When a manual retry is available

Open Payments, Subscriptions, and a subscription whose payment status is Unpaid or Past due. Manual retry is for NMI, Authorize.Net, Square and Mercado Pago after automatic retries are exhausted or unavailable.

This is subscription-retention work on a product you already sell. It is not retail checkout lead capture, rental billing or account-plan billing.

How a retry works

Retry the oldest unpaid payment using a saved card or a newly added card. You can optionally set the selected card as the subscription's default payment method.

The same card can be retried up to three times. After three unsuccessful attempts, a 24 hour cool-down applies before that card can be retried. Localized warnings show when another retry is not yet available. Charge Card stays unavailable while automatic retries are still running.

What this does not do

Opening Retry Payment does not collect money by itself. This article does not recommend a retry, perform a payment, or prove a successful collection.

Creator Agents have no financial-transfer capability for this job. Other payment processors are not claimed here.

Where to find it

Go to Payments, Subscriptions, open the unpaid or past-due subscription, then Retry Payment.

Subscription row menu with Retry Payment highlighted beside Incomplete, Scheduled and Unpaid statuses
Official public example of Retry Payment on a subscription row. Amounts and statuses are source demonstration values. No payment was retried.
Retry failed payment dialog warning that automatic retries are still in progress
Official public Retry failed payment dialog while automatic retries are still running. Charge Card stays unavailable until that process finishes. The background product name is a source example.