diff --git a/app/Services/Billing/AdoptStripePrice.php b/app/Services/Billing/AdoptStripePrice.php
index fd2dd1d..41461d5 100644
--- a/app/Services/Billing/AdoptStripePrice.php
+++ b/app/Services/Billing/AdoptStripePrice.php
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ final class AdoptStripePrice
         array $identifying,
         callable $claimed,
     ): ?string {
+        // Stripe hands metadata back as strings. An un-cast int here would then
+        // never satisfy confirms()'s strict ===, silently disabling adoption for
+        // that Price forever and warning on every sweep and every booking. One
+        // cast here makes the class independent of what a caller happens to pass.
+        $metadata = array_map(fn ($value) => (string) $value, $metadata);
+
         $candidates = [];
 
         foreach ($this->stripe->activePricesFor($productId) as $price) {
@@ -114,8 +120,20 @@ final class AdoptStripePrice
         }
 
         // Only when it differs, so a sweep over a healthy catalogue makes no
-        // writes at Stripe at all.
-        if ($adopted['metadata'] !== $metadata) {
+        // writes at Stripe at all. Compared through array_intersect_key() rather
+        // than a bare !==, for two reasons: Stripe MERGES a metadata write rather
+        // than replacing it, so a Price can carry a key of its own that a write
+        // would never remove and a bare !== would then never call equal — and
+        // PHP's array !== is key-order sensitive, so Stripe handing the same
+        // values back in a different order would trigger a write every single
+        // sweep. ksort() on both sides settles the order; the intersect settles
+        // the extra key, by looking only at what WE would send.
+        $overlap = array_intersect_key($adopted['metadata'], $metadata);
+        $wanted = $metadata;
+        ksort($overlap);
+        ksort($wanted);
+
+        if ($overlap !== $wanted) {
             $this->stripe->updatePriceMetadata($adopted['id'], $metadata);
         }
 
diff --git a/app/Services/Stripe/FakeStripeClient.php b/app/Services/Stripe/FakeStripeClient.php
index 47efe93..311b188 100644
--- a/app/Services/Stripe/FakeStripeClient.php
+++ b/app/Services/Stripe/FakeStripeClient.php
@@ -253,6 +253,12 @@ class FakeStripeClient implements StripeClient
         // No failIfAsked(): createPrice(), the call this one stands in front of,
         // does not fail either, and a test that scripts an outage for a refund
         // must not have its catalogue sync change behaviour underneath it.
+        //
+        // No interval_count/usage_type filter either, unlike HttpStripeClient's:
+        // this fake only ever holds prices its own createPrice()/plantPrice() put
+        // here, and neither lets a caller set anything but a standard monthly or
+        // yearly recurrence — there is nothing non-standard a test could plant,
+        // so the filter would have nothing to do. Not an oversight.
         $found = [];
 
         foreach ($this->prices as $id => $price) {
diff --git a/app/Services/Stripe/HttpStripeClient.php b/app/Services/Stripe/HttpStripeClient.php
index 8926f39..2058442 100644
--- a/app/Services/Stripe/HttpStripeClient.php
+++ b/app/Services/Stripe/HttpStripeClient.php
@@ -168,11 +168,25 @@ class HttpStripeClient implements StripeClient
             $data = (array) ($page['data'] ?? []);
 
             foreach ($data as $price) {
+                $recurring = (array) ($price['recurring'] ?? []);
+
+                // Only prices we could have minted ourselves: createPrice() never
+                // sets either field, so Stripe defaults both, and anything else is
+                // not a standard monthly/yearly Price. Skipped here rather than
+                // returned, because AdoptStripePrice trusts the amount/currency/
+                // interval triple as the WHOLE recurrence — a Price billed every
+                // three months, or on metered usage, would otherwise pass that
+                // triple on 'month' alone and be adopted as if it billed monthly.
+                if ((int) ($recurring['interval_count'] ?? 1) !== 1
+                    || ($recurring['usage_type'] ?? 'licensed') !== 'licensed') {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
                 $prices[] = [
                     'id' => (string) ($price['id'] ?? ''),
                     'unit_amount' => (int) ($price['unit_amount'] ?? 0),
                     'currency' => strtoupper((string) ($price['currency'] ?? '')),
-                    'interval' => (string) ($price['recurring']['interval'] ?? ''),
+                    'interval' => (string) ($recurring['interval'] ?? ''),
                     'created' => (int) ($price['created'] ?? 0),
                     'metadata' => array_map(
                         fn ($value) => (string) $value,
diff --git a/app/Services/Stripe/StripeClient.php b/app/Services/Stripe/StripeClient.php
index 1e06947..45e6d30 100644
--- a/app/Services/Stripe/StripeClient.php
+++ b/app/Services/Stripe/StripeClient.php
@@ -138,6 +138,16 @@ interface StripeClient
      * here I can sell on?". `currency` comes back UPPER CASE, the way our own
      * tables hold it.
      *
+     * Only prices WE could have created ourselves. createPrice() never sets
+     * `recurring.interval_count` or `recurring.usage_type`, so anything besides
+     * Stripe's own defaults for them — one, and `licensed` — is filtered out
+     * here rather than returned. AdoptStripePrice trusts the amount/currency/
+     * interval triple in the shape below as the WHOLE of a Price's recurrence;
+     * a Price billed every three months, or on metered usage, would otherwise
+     * pass that triple on `interval => 'month'` alone and be adopted as if it
+     * billed monthly — which is adoption moving money, the one thing nothing
+     * here may do.
+     *
      * @return array<int, array{id: string, unit_amount: int, currency: string, interval: string, created: int, metadata: array<string, string>}>
      */
     public function activePricesFor(string $productId): array;
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Billing/StripeIdempotencyKeyTest.php b/tests/Feature/Billing/StripeIdempotencyKeyTest.php
index ef93691..3ea6478 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Billing/StripeIdempotencyKeyTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Billing/StripeIdempotencyKeyTest.php
@@ -170,6 +170,31 @@ it('pages through every active price of a product', function () {
     Http::assertSent(fn ($request) => str_contains($request->url(), 'active=true'));
 });
 
+it('skips a price it could not have created itself, so the money gate never trusts a partial recurrence', function () {
+    Http::fake([
+        'api.stripe.com/*' => Http::response([
+            'data' => [
+                ['id' => 'price_monthly', 'unit_amount' => 3480, 'currency' => 'eur',
+                    'created' => 100, 'recurring' => ['interval' => 'month'],
+                    'metadata' => ['addon' => 'priority_support']],
+                ['id' => 'price_quarterly', 'unit_amount' => 3480, 'currency' => 'eur',
+                    'created' => 101, 'recurring' => ['interval' => 'month', 'interval_count' => 3],
+                    'metadata' => ['addon' => 'priority_support']],
+                ['id' => 'price_metered', 'unit_amount' => 3480, 'currency' => 'eur',
+                    'created' => 102, 'recurring' => ['interval' => 'month', 'usage_type' => 'metered'],
+                    'metadata' => ['addon' => 'priority_support']],
+            ],
+            'has_more' => false,
+        ]),
+    ]);
+
+    $prices = (new HttpStripeClient)->activePricesFor('prod_1');
+
+    // A hand-duplicated dashboard price keeps our metadata, so nothing
+    // downstream could tell it apart, and the module would bill quarterly.
+    expect(collect($prices)->pluck('id')->all())->toBe(['price_monthly']);
+});
+
 it('writes metadata onto a price that already exists', function () {
     Http::fake(['api.stripe.com/*' => Http::response(['id' => 'price_a'])]);
 
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Billing/StripePriceAdoptionTest.php b/tests/Feature/Billing/StripePriceAdoptionTest.php
index 68690d1..c3d47a1 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Billing/StripePriceAdoptionTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Billing/StripePriceAdoptionTest.php
@@ -72,6 +72,21 @@ it('leaves the metadata alone when it already says the right thing', function ()
         ->and($this->stripe->metadataUpdates)->toBe([]);
 });
 
+it('leaves the metadata alone when Stripe merged it in a different order plus a key of its own', function () {
+    // plantPrice() stores our own array in our own order, so the test above
+    // cannot catch an order- or merge-sensitive comparison: Stripe returns
+    // metadata as the result of a MERGE, never a replace, in whatever key
+    // order it likes — and a write never removes a key it did not send.
+    $this->stripe->plantPrice('price_ok', 'prod_support', 3480, 'EUR', 'month', [
+        'tax_treatment' => 'domestic',
+        'addon' => 'priority_support',
+        'internal_note' => 'added by hand in the Stripe dashboard',
+    ]);
+
+    expect(adoptModulePrice())->toBe('price_ok')
+        ->and($this->stripe->metadataUpdates)->toBe([]);
+});
+
 it('adopts nothing when the amount, currency or interval differ', function () {
     $this->stripe->plantPrice('price_cheaper', 'prod_support', 2900, 'EUR', 'month', moduleMetadata());
     $this->stripe->plantPrice('price_yearly', 'prod_support', 3480, 'EUR', 'year', moduleMetadata());