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Subscription cannot activate

You are attempting to activate a subscription which does not have trialing status

Error MessageOnly subscriptions which have status 'trialing' can be activated. Subscription status is '%s'
Error Codesubscription_cannot_activate
Status Code400

Common causes

  • You are attempting to activate a subscription which does not have trialing status

Solutions

  • If the subscription is paused, you will need to resume instead

  • If the subscription is already active, fetch the latest version from the GET subscription endpoint

  • If the subscription is canceled, it cannot be made active again