# Payment Collection Pause Status Boundary

Keep paused payment collection distinct from a paused subscription or cancelled renewal.

## Scope
Preparation and review only. No account action or professional decision.

## Inputs
Subscription ID, status, pause_collection fields, invoice behavior and customer-access policy.

## Workflow
1. Record collection pause and subscription status separately.
2. Use Stripe documented active status and continued invoice generation during collection pause.
3. Distinguish pausing access/invoices and cancelling from this route.
4. Return configuration evidence without pausing, granting access or changing billing.

## Output contract
subscription | status | pause_collection | invoice_behavior | access_policy | cancellation_unproved

## Fictional acceptance test
Fictional subscriptionS staysactivewith pause_collection=void. This does not prove cancellation or stopped invoice generation. Unknown app-access policy prevents a customer-access guarantee.

## Review gates
Keep original values, source IDs and version dates. Unknown facts stay held. Use qualified review for hiring, legal and accounting conclusions. No send, share, sign-in, scheduling, ledger change or payment. Fictional contract review is not a live account compatibility test.

## Method source
https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/pause-payment

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