Marketing + behaviour pass to get the site ready for Paddle approval.
Pricing page
- £7/month, £70/year headline (was "Coming soon").
- Bigger tier names (was 11px uppercase mono — looked like chips).
- Real CTAs (button base styles were only scoped to .hero__ctas).
- "Best value" badge + drop-shadow on the Paid card; full-width
block CTAs that align across both cards.
- "Free vs Paid at a glance" comparison table beneath the cards.
- Compact "Invite a friend — both get 50% off for 3 months"
callout with the detail explanation behind a <dialog> popup.
Tier copy + behaviour now consistent
- Free strategic-log refresh is every 6 hours, not hourly. New
read-side filter on /api/log/{latest,by-date} restricts free
users to logs at boundary hours (00/06/12/18 UTC); paid users
still see the most recent.
- Follow-up chat is paid-only. /api/chat returns 402 for free;
the chat sidebar on /log is replaced with a locked aside and
chat.js no longer loads at all for free users.
- Dashboard meta lines + landing copy softened so they no longer
promise hourly to everyone.
Future-proofing copy on public pages
- Dropped "free forever" wording (we may close the free tier).
- "Trading 212 CSV" became "broker CSV (Trading 212 today; more
planned)" on pricing + landing; the actual import UIs stay
T212-specific.
Terms
- Renamed Terms of Service -> Terms and Conditions (Paddle
expectation), bumped last-updated to 2026-05-26.
- New §6 Refunds covering the 14-day cooling off, post-window
cancellation, termination-by-us refunds, statutory rights, and
how to request a refund.
- Renumbered §7-§14 and fixed the disclaimer link labels.
Tests
- 6 new tests in tests/test_chat_and_log_gates.py cover the
chat 402 + the boundary-hour filter on both log endpoints.
- Full suite: 205 passed, 5 skipped, 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lays the billing-prep spine before Paddle lands in D.3.
D.1 — referrals
- users.referral_code: unique 8-char URL-safe code (alphabet excludes the
ambiguous 0/O/1/I/L). Generated lazily on first /settings hit so existing
accounts pick one up without a backfill migration.
- users.referred_by_user_id + new referrals audit table (referrer,
referred, created_at, converted_at, credited_at). converted_at /
credited_at stay null until D.3 fills them via the Paddle webhook.
- POST /login accepts ?ref=<code>; the code rides on the signed
pending-verify cookie so it survives the GET → POST → /verify hop.
- /settings page: email, tier badge, referral code chip + invite link
with one-click copy, pending/converted/active-credits stats grid.
Settings nav link added to the top bar.
Reward shape: when the referred user makes their first paid Paddle
subscription, both they and the referrer get 50% off for 3 months.
(D.3 wires the actual credit application via the Paddle webhook.)
D.2 — paid-access gate
- users.credit_until: timestamp until which a free-tier account has
paid-tier access. Null = no credit. Populated by admin CLI now and the
D.3 webhook later.
- app.services.access exposes paid_status(user) → PaidStatus dataclass
(active / source / expires_at / days_remaining), is_paid_active() with
admin-bearer-token bypass, and a require_paid FastAPI dependency that
raises 402 Payment Required for free-tier callers.
- POST /api/analyze (portfolio AI commentary) gated behind require_paid.
- Settings page surfaces credit window when active ("free · credit · N
day(s) remaining (expires YYYY-MM-DD)") and the upgrade hint when not.
- Admin CLI: python -m app.cli {grant-credit,revoke-credit,show-status}.
grant-credit is idempotent — extends from max(now, current expiry) so
re-running the command never erodes an existing grant.
Migrations 0013 (referrals) and 0014 (credit_until). Tests cover the
paid-status truth table, code generation + normalisation, CLI argument
parsing, and the pending-cookie ref roundtrip (29 new tests).
