diff --git a/app/Services/Billing/PlanPrices.php b/app/Services/Billing/PlanPrices.php
index 03c93af..5d58ce7 100644
--- a/app/Services/Billing/PlanPrices.php
+++ b/app/Services/Billing/PlanPrices.php
@@ -172,11 +172,18 @@ final class PlanPrices
                 currency: (string) $price->currency,
                 interval: $interval,
                 metadata: $metadata,
-                // Says "I have already sent this call", nothing more — the
-                // metadata is folded in by IdempotencyKey inside the client, so
-                // changing the format above can never again refuse the call for
-                // a day. What stops a second Price for one figure is the
-                // adoption step above; Stripe forgets a key after 24 hours.
+                // Says "I have already sent this call", nothing more. The
+                // CHARGED amount is part of the key, so a run after a rate
+                // change cannot replay the Price minted at the old figure. So
+                // is the treatment, and it has to be: at a rate of nought the
+                // two Prices are the same amount, and one key would have
+                // Stripe hand back the same object for both — which the
+                // register, where a Price id is unique, would refuse to
+                // record twice. The metadata is folded in by IdempotencyKey
+                // inside the client, so changing the format above can never
+                // again refuse the call for a day. What stops a second Price
+                // for one figure is the adoption step above, not this key —
+                // Stripe forgets a key after twenty-four hours.
                 idempotencyKey: "clupilot-price-{$price->id}-{$charged}"
                     .($treatment->reverseCharge ? '-rc' : ''),
             );
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Billing/StripePriceAdoptionTest.php b/tests/Feature/Billing/StripePriceAdoptionTest.php
index 6066ed5..f5c3caa 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Billing/StripePriceAdoptionTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Billing/StripePriceAdoptionTest.php
@@ -401,3 +401,52 @@ it('does not take a package price belonging to another catalogue row', function
         // exactly the failure a wrong plan_price_id must never cause.
         ->and($this->stripe->archived)->not->toContain('price_other_row');
 });
+
+it('does not adopt a package price that only proves the family, not this row', function () {
+    // The whole reason the plan side needs `identifying: ['plan_price_id']`
+    // rather than the module side's simpler key: one Product carries a Price
+    // for every version, term AND treatment of a family, so a Price that
+    // proves only the FAMILY could be any of them. If `identifying` were ever
+    // loosened to ['plan_family'], a Price like the one planted below would
+    // wrongly confirm — nothing else here would catch it.
+    app(Kernel::class)->call('stripe:sync-catalogue');
+
+    $row = PlanPrice::query()->firstOrFail();
+    $product = (string) $row->version->family->stripe_product_id;
+    $charged = PlanPrices::chargedCents($row, TaxTreatment::domestic());
+    $interval = $row->term === Subscription::TERM_YEARLY ? 'year' : 'month';
+
+    // This row's OWN domestic Price is a legitimate orphan the moment its
+    // register row is gone — same reason as the two tests above — and would
+    // otherwise be correctly re-adopted before the planted Price below is
+    // ever weighed, masking the very rejection this test means to prove.
+    $this->stripe->archivePrice((string) StripePlanPrice::query()
+        ->where('plan_price_id', $row->id)
+        ->where('reverse_charge', false)
+        ->value('stripe_price_id'));
+
+    StripePlanPrice::query()->where('plan_price_id', $row->id)->delete();
+
+    // Right product, right money, right currency, right interval, and the
+    // right FAMILY — the one thing missing is plan_price_id, which is the
+    // only key that says which of the family's many rows a Price belongs to.
+    $this->stripe->plantPrice('price_family_only', $product, $charged, (string) $row->currency,
+        $interval, ['plan_family' => $row->version->family->key]);
+
+    // Same reason as the two tests above: with the sync's own idempotency
+    // key still in force, createPrice() would replay this row's own previous
+    // Price rather than genuinely minting, leaving nothing for the
+    // assertions below to catch.
+    $this->stripe->keys = [];
+
+    $before = count($this->stripe->prices);
+
+    $id = app(PlanPrices::class)->ensure($row->refresh(), TaxTreatment::domestic());
+
+    expect($id)->not->toBe('price_family_only')
+        // A fresh Price was minted rather than the family-only Price being
+        // handed out — this is the assertion `identifying: ['plan_price_id']`
+        // exists to keep true; swap it for ['plan_family'] and this fails.
+        ->and(count($this->stripe->prices))->toBe($before + 1)
+        ->and($this->stripe->archived)->not->toContain('price_family_only');
+});