Both prices have existed since the catalogue did — one `plan_prices` row
per term, each with its own Stripe Price, and the checkout has taken a
`term` all along. Nothing ever sent one. The shop showed the monthly
figure, the order page posted no term, and the yearly Price sat there
being paid for by nobody.
**The console asks for free months, not a second price.** It used to take
the yearly TOTAL as its own free-form figure, so nothing in the system
knew WHY 588 belonged to a package costing 49 a month — and no page could
say "zwei Monate gratis" without a person working it out again and writing
it somewhere it would then drift. Now: the monthly price and how many of
the twelve months are free. The total is derived from the two
(PlanVersions::yearlyCents), previewed live on the form, and written to
the catalogue from the same arithmetic.
`free_months` sits on the VERSION, beside the capabilities publication
freezes, because that is what it is — part of the terms a customer bought.
The migration reads it back out of the prices that already exist rather
than defaulting to nought: an installation selling twelve-for-ten must not
lose that on a deploy. Only an exact division counts; a hand-negotiated
yearly figure keeps its amount and simply goes unexplained.
**The customer chooses.** A switch on the order page and on the public
sheet, both figures rendered and one shown, so switching costs no request.
The headline stays "per month" in either term — a yearly total as one big
number reads as five times dearer at a glance — with the amount actually
taken, the net figure, the months free and what twelve monthly payments
would have cost underneath. The form posts the term the customer was
looking at, and the checkout picks that term's Stripe Price.
The billing card now says which term is running. It states a monthly
figure whatever the term, so a yearly customer was reading a number that
never appears on a statement.
Also: **a Blade comment must never spell a directive.** Blade compiles
what is inside `{{-- --}}` too — the comment is stripped from the output,
but its directives are compiled on the way there. A comment explaining why
the parenthesised php directive had been avoided produced exactly the open
PHP tag it warned about, and the rest of the file was swallowed as PHP
source: no exception, no warning, the page one block short. That is how
the term switch vanished after being written. BladeCommentsTest scans for
the forms that open a tag.
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Plans lived in config/provisioning.php, where the owner cannot reach them and
where a plan has no history. They now live in plan_families / plan_versions /
plan_prices — a name that never moves, what the plan WAS at a point in time,
and a price per version and term with its own Stripe Price id.
- Availability is computed on every read (available_from <= now < until,
half-open, UTC) plus a per-family sales kill switch. Nothing schedules a plan
into or out of sale: a job that fails to run is a plan that silently
misbehaves.
- Overlaps crash rather than resolve. currentVersion() uses sole(), and
scheduling takes a lock on the family and rejects an overlapping window —
two versions on sale at once would decide a customer's price by row order.
- A version is frozen from publication, not from first sale, and so is its
price: a checkout is not instant, and an amount edited between the session
opening and the webhook landing would contract someone at a price they were
never quoted. Repricing publishes a new version, as Stripe requires anyway.
- Neither a published version, its price, nor a family with customers can be
deleted, and a family key cannot be renamed. All of those would null the
provenance off existing contracts.
- Subscriptions and orders record plan_version_id. A historical reference
resolved by plan NAME hands back today's terms, which is the split-brain one
level up. A checkout that carried its version is honoured even after the
window closes — they paid for what they were shown.
Switched atomically and failing closed: config('provisioning.plans') and
plan_features are gone, and nothing falls back to them. A fallback would
resurrect a plan the owner had just switched off. The seed lives in the
migration, and PlanCatalogueTest pins what the config catalogue sold as the
shadow comparison. `php artisan plans:check` reports overlaps, gaps and
missing prices before a customer finds them.
Contract-backed displays, which were reading the live catalogue:
seat limits, the cloud card, the plan card, and admin MRR — the last three now
divide a yearly contract down via Subscription::monthlyPriceCents(), since all
three label the figure per month.
Two recovery gaps closed along the way: the order now commits before the
contract is opened (so a contract failure can never erase the record of a
payment), a Stripe retry repairs a missing contract and restarts a run stranded
with no_subscription, and TickProvisioning sweeps runs left pending by a crash
rather than only running/waiting ones.
402 tests green. Codex review clean after thirteen rounds. Verified in the
browser: portal, billing and console render unchanged off the new catalogue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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