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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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