# Trial Ending Payment Method Branch Map

Prepare a no-payment-method trial outcome map from supplied subscription settings.

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

## Inputs
Trial end, payment-method evidence, missing-payment-method behavior, subscription status, event logs and source version.

## Workflow
1. Keep actual payment-method evidence separate from a saved customer profile.
2. Read configured cancel, pause or invoice behavior from the supplied settings.
3. Compare observed post-trial state and events to that configured branch.
4. Return mismatches without changing settings, billing or emailing customers.

## Output contract
subscription | trial_end | payment_method_evidence | configured_behavior | observed_state | mismatch | hold

## Fictional acceptance test
Fictional no-payment-method trial has pause behavior; post-trial status paused is consistent. A different subscription with no behavior export stays unknown, not automatically canceled.

## 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/trials

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