Bundles three related pieces that came out of the operator's first
end-to-end test of the paid flow:
1. Manage subscription button on /settings (paid users with a real
Stripe sub — i.e. not credit-granted access). POSTs to the existing
/api/stripe/portal endpoint; Stripe-hosted customer portal handles
card updates, cancellation, monthly↔annual switch, invoice history.
Replaces the stale "Paid features unlock with Paddle (D.3) or
invite credits" hint for free users with a live link to /pricing.
2. Per-cadence cooling-off treatment:
- **Annual £70**: 14-day free trial via
subscription_data.trial_period_days=14. No money moves during
the trial, so the CCR 2013 14-day refund question doesn't arise
(nothing paid = nothing to refund). Card is still required at
checkout so Stripe can charge on day 15.
- **Monthly £7**: bills immediately. A 14-day trial there would
give away ~50% of cycle one. Instead, /pricing now carries a
required tick-box above the Subscribe buttons (subscribe stays
disabled until checked) — by ticking, the user expressly
consents to begin performance immediately and acknowledges that
this extinguishes their statutory 14-day right under Reg 36
CCR 2013. Consent collected on our own page (not via Stripe's
account-wide consent_collection.terms_of_service) so each
product can keep its own Terms URL as we add more.
3. T&C §6 clause 1 split into 1a (annual / trial substitute) +
1b (monthly / Reg 36 waiver via on-page tick-box). Clause 2
(post-cooling-off cancellation) unchanged.
Settings page shows "Free trial — N days remaining" while the
sub is in `trialing` status, falling back to "Paid subscription
active." once it transitions to active. Countdown is computed
server-side from User.stripe_trial_end_at (new column, migration
0020) populated by the subscription.created/updated webhook from
the Stripe trial_end timestamp; cleared on the trialing→active
transition and on revoke.
Drive-by: fixed a structlog kwarg-name collision on
`log.warning(..., event=event_type, ...)` in both polar_webhook.py
and stripe_billing.py — `event` is structlog's positional event
name and "got multiple values" crashed the user-not-found log
path. Renamed to `event_type=` everywhere it appeared. Caught by
the new trialing-stores-trial-end test.
Tests
- 4 new in test_stripe_billing.py covering monthly (no trial, no
consent_collection), annual (trial, no consent), trialing stores
trial_end, trialing→active clears trial_end.
- 1 existing test renamed + reworked for the consent split.
- Full suite: 224 passed, 5 skipped.
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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.
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Adds the unauthenticated surface that's needed to invite outsiders:
- Landing (/) — dual-purpose root: dashboard for logged-in users,
landing for everyone else. New maybe_current_user soft-auth helper
in app/auth.py supports it without disturbing the per-route
require_token deps on /news, /log, /upload, /settings.
- About, Pricing, Disclaimer, Terms, Privacy — own router
(app/routers/public.py), no auth dep, shared public_base layout
(brand link, thin nav, footer with legal links + ICO ref + date).
- Editorial positioning: news aggregator with a macro brain; tagline
"Understand markets. Don't gamble on them."; anti-trading-as-gambling
stance carried through About and Landing.
Legal pass following an independent lawyer-style review:
- Privacy: explicit UK-GDPR Art. 6 lawful-basis section; Art. 22
automated-decision line; explicit consent for sessionStorage sync
key (PECR); 30-day IP-log retention; Art. 21 objection right;
Children clause; Art. 33/34 breach-notification clause;
international-transfer mechanism (IDTA + UK Addendum). ICO
registration ZC098928 surfaced at the top.
- Pricing: paid-card AI-portfolio-analysis bullet rewritten to remove
advice-shaped wording ("what would invalidate the posture" gone);
added italic carve-out citing FSMA / FCA COBS.
- Disclaimer: separate EU/EEA carve-out + MAR 596/2014 Art. 3(1)(34)
commentator safe-harbour; "qualifies the Terms" line; hallucination
wording fixed.
- Terms: cl.4 explicit AI-training prohibition + harassment line;
cl.5 CCR 2013 14-day cancellation; cl.7 softened AI copyright
claim under CDPA s.9(3) ambiguity; cl.8 proportionate suspension +
pro-rata refund for paid users; cl.10 CRA 2015 Pt 1 statutory-rights
carve-out from the liability cap; cl.11 right to close account on
material change; cl.12 non-exclusive jurisdiction + UK consumer
local courts.
Code-side enforcement of the Privacy claim:
- openrouter.py: outbound OpenRouter calls now carry
X-OR-Allow-Training: false. DeepSeek doesn't expose a per-request
flag; the Privacy page discloses this caveat verbatim.
Apex domain prep:
- branding.APP_URL flipped to https://read.markets (was app.). DNS for
the apex already resolves; pending operator NPM step is a cert that
covers the bare apex + a 301 from app.read.markets. No hard-coded
subdomain references remain in code (verified with grep).
Nav + chrome:
- app dropdown gains Pricing / Terms / Privacy / Disclaimer links.
- login.html gains a small legal-links footer for the
highest-leverage moment to surface them.
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