Subscription management links now return customer portal links

What's new?

We've updated the Paddle API so that management links against subscriptions return customer portal URLs.

How it works

When working with subscriptions using the API, management_urls returns links that customers can use to update their payment method and cancel their subscription.

Previously, links started with sandbox-buyer-portal.paddle.com or buyer-portal.paddle.com, for example:

{
  "management_urls": {
    "update_payment_method": "https://buyer-portal.paddle.com/subscriptions/sub_01hv8y5ehszzq0yv20ttx3166y/update-payment-method",
    "cancel": "https://buyer-portal.paddle.com/subscriptions/sub_01hv8y5ehszzq0yv20ttx3166y/cancel"
  }
}

When we released customer portal last year, we started redirecting these links to the customer portal. The links themselves remained the same.

Now, we've replaced the links with direct links to the customer portal, starting sandbox-customer-portal.paddle.com or customer-portal.paddle.com, for example:

{
  "management_urls": {
    "update_payment_method": "https://customer-portal.paddle.com/cpl_01j7zbyqs3vah3aafp4jf62qaw?action=update_subscription_payment_method&subscription_id=sub_01hv8y5ehszzq0yv20ttx3166y",
    "cancel": "https://customer-portal.paddle.com/cpl_01j7zbyqs3vah3aafp4jf62qaw?action=cancel_subscription&subscription_id=sub_01hv8y5ehszzq0yv20ttx3166y"
  }
}

The behavior of the links hasn't changed. You can still return these links to customers to let them update their payment method and cancel their subscription.

Next steps

This change is available in version 1 of the Paddle API.

It's a non-breaking change, meaning it doesn't impact existing integrations. Links have changed to sandbox-customer-portal.paddle.com or customer-portal.paddle.com, but the behavior of the links remains the same.