Issue with Stripe Subscription Payments in SimpleMembership Plugin

To the Development Team,

I am always grateful for your excellent SimpleMembership plugin. It has been a significant help to my business.

However, I have encountered some issues with Stripe subscription payments recently and would like to request your support.

Issue:

When a new Stripe subscription payment is successfully processed, a “Fatal error! Payment with ref_id swpm_ .. can’t be found.” error message appears before redirecting to the thank you page. No API errors are noted on Stripe’s end, and the payment seems to be successful. However, these transactions are not recorded in the WordPress payment history, and Incomplete accounts are not created. This error does not consistently occur, but it seems to happen in about 60% of test transactions.

Attempts to Resolve:

• Deactivating other plugins did not solve the issue.
• Changing the theme also did not resolve the problem.
• Disabling the GA4 measurement JavaScript in the child theme’s functions.php did not lead to a solution.
• I updated the Stripe API version from August 2020 to the latest version of October 2023 in the Stripe developer dashboard and updated the plugin to the latest version, but the issue remains.
• There is no influence from browser ad blockers, and the same phenomenon occurs in both Chrome and Safari. I have also referred to a similar case here but to no avail: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/fatal-error-payment-with-ref_id-swpm_-%E2%80%8Bcant-be-found/

If you have any insights into potential causes or solutions for this issue, your guidance would be greatly appreciated. I am eager to contribute to the further improvement of the plugin.

Thank you very much for your assistance.