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# Subscription Tiers
DocuElevate uses database-backed subscription plans that are fully configurable by admins via the **Plan Designer** at `/admin/plans`. Four default tiers are seeded automatically on first startup.
All plans are priced **per user, per month** (or per year with ~20 % discount). There are no team, business, or enterprise tiers — every plan is a single-user subscription.
## Default Plans
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Docs/Month | Lifetime Docs | OCR Pages/Mo | Max File | Mailboxes | Destinations |
|------|---------|--------|-----------|---------------|--------------|----------|-----------|--------------|
| **Free** | $0 | $0 | — | 50 total | 150 total | 5 MB | 0 | 1 |
| **Starter** | $2.99 | $28.99 | 50 | — | 300 | 25 MB | 1 | 2 |
| **Professional** | $5.99 | $57.99 | 150 | — | 750 | 100 MB | 3 | 5 |
| **Power** | $7.99 | $76.99 | 300 | — | 1,500 | Unlimited | Unlimited | 10 |
> Prices ex-VAT. German customers add 19% MwSt.
All paid plans include a **30-day free trial**.
### Intended Use Cases
- **Free** — Try DocuElevate with no commitment. Good for one-off experiments or evaluating the service.
- **Starter** — Freelancers and side-project owners sending ~50 invoices, contracts, or scanned receipts a month.
- **Professional** — Knowledge workers (consultants, paralegals, accountants) handling ~150 multi-page documents a month across several cloud destinations.
- **Power** — Power users with heavy daily workloads: real estate agents, bookkeepers, or researchers processing ~10 documents a day (≈ 300/month) with no file-size restrictions.
> The **plan_id** in the database remains `"business"` for the Power tier to preserve backwards compatibility. The display name shown to users is "Power".
## How Plans Are Stored
Plans are stored in the `subscription_plans` database table. On application startup, `seed_default_plans()` is called automatically — if the table is empty, the four built-in defaults are inserted. If plans already exist, the seed is a no-op.
Users are assigned a plan via `UserProfile.subscription_tier` (stores the `plan_id` string). The subscription utility functions (`get_tier`, `get_all_tiers`) query the database first and fall back to the hard-coded `TIER_DEFAULTS` dict if the database is unavailable or the plan doesn't exist.
## Overage Buffer
### Announced vs. Enforced Limit
DocuElevate uses a **soft-limit overage buffer** that is invisible to users:
- The **announced limit** is what appears on the pricing page (e.g., "150 docs/month").
- The **enforced limit** = announced × (1 + overage_percent / 100).
- With the default 20% buffer: a 150-doc plan enforces at **180 docs**.
- This prevents hard cutoffs at the exact announced limit, giving users a graceful landing.
### Per-Plan vs. Global Buffer
Each plan has its own `overage_percent` field (set in the Plan Designer). There is also a global fallback: `settings.subscription_overage_percent` (default: 20, range: 0200), which applies when a plan does not have an explicit value.
Set `subscription_overage_percent=0` in your `.env` to enforce exactly at the announced limit with no buffer.
## Yearly Billing & Carry-Over
When a user's `subscription_billing_cycle` is set to `yearly`:
- Unused quota from earlier months **rolls forward automatically**.
- Enforcement = `monthly_limit × months_elapsed × overage_factor` (cumulative budget from the subscription start date).
- Example: A 50-doc/month Starter plan in month 3 of its annual period has a cumulative budget of 150 docs (plus overage buffer). If the user only used 20 docs in months 12, they can use 130 docs in month 3.
- The `subscription_period_start` field on `UserProfile` tracks the start of the annual period.
## No Daily Cap
`daily_upload_limit` is kept for display and future reference only — it is **never enforced**. All enforcement is lifetime (free tier) or monthly/cumulative-yearly (paid tiers).
## allow_overage Flag
Setting `UserProfile.allow_overage = True` bypasses monthly quota checks entirely for that user. Usage is still tracked so future billing integrations can charge retroactively. This field is not yet exposed in the admin UI.
## is_complimentary Flag (Complimentary Plans)
Setting `UserProfile.is_complimentary = True` marks a user as being on a **complimentary (uncharged) plan**. The user retains all quota benefits of their assigned subscription tier but is **never billed via Stripe**. This is useful for:
- **Admin accounts** — automatically set on every admin user profile at login time.
- **Gifted access** — granting full plan benefits to partners, testers, or sponsored users.
### Admin Auto-Provisioning
When an admin user logs in for the first time (via OAuth, local account, or the built-in admin credentials), DocuElevate automatically:
1. Creates a `UserProfile` row if one does not already exist.
2. Assigns the **highest available subscription tier** (currently `business`).
3. Sets `is_complimentary = True` so the account is never billed.
4. Sets `onboarding_completed = True` so admins skip the first-time setup wizard.
On subsequent logins for existing admin profiles:
- `is_complimentary` is ensured to be `True`.
- If the profile was still on the `free` tier it is upgraded to the highest tier.
- All other admin-managed settings (custom limits, notes, etc.) are preserved.
### Managing via Admin UI
The **User Management** page (`/admin/users`) shows a green gift icon (🎁) next to the plan badge for any user with `is_complimentary = True`. The toggle is available in the user edit modal under **Billing**.
### API Field
`is_complimentary` is exposed in the `PUT /api/admin/users/{user_id}` body and in all user detail responses.
## Plan Designer
Navigate to `/admin/plans` (admin only) to:
1. **View** all plans (active and inactive) with key stats.
2. **Create** a new plan with a custom `plan_id` slug.
3. **Edit** any plan's pricing, limits, overage buffer, features, and display settings.
4. **Reorder** plans using the up/down arrows (order reflects pricing page display order).
5. **Delete** a plan (does not affect existing users assigned to it).
6. **Restore Defaults** — seeds the four built-in plans (no-op if plans already exist).
### Overage Designer
The Plan Designer includes an overage slider (0100%). The live preview shows:
> "Announce **X** docs, enforce at **Y** docs"
Overage billing and per-doc overage pricing are planned future features (currently disabled in the UI).
## API Endpoints
All plan endpoints are under `/api/plans/`.
| Method | Path | Auth | Description |
|--------|------|------|-------------|
| `GET` | `/api/plans/` | Public | List active plans in sort order |
| `GET` | `/api/plans/admin` | Admin | List all plans including inactive |
| `POST` | `/api/plans/?plan_id=<id>` | Admin | Create a new plan |
| `GET` | `/api/plans/{plan_id}` | Public | Get a single active plan |
| `PUT` | `/api/plans/{plan_id}` | Admin | Update an existing plan |
| `DELETE` | `/api/plans/{plan_id}` | Admin | Delete a plan |
| `POST` | `/api/plans/seed` | Admin | Seed default plans (no-op if non-empty) |
| `POST` | `/api/plans/reorder` | Admin | Update sort order; body: `{"order": ["free", "starter", ...]}` |
### Example: List Active Plans
```bash
curl http://localhost:8000/api/plans/
```
### Example: Update a Plan's Monthly Limit
```bash
curl -X PUT http://localhost:8000/api/plans/starter \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"name": "Starter",
"monthly_upload_limit": 75,
"overage_percent": 15,
...
}'
```
## Configuration
| Variable | Default | Description |
|----------|---------|-------------|
| `SUBSCRIPTION_OVERAGE_PERCENT` | `20` | Global overage buffer (0200). Per-plan setting overrides this. |
See `docs/ConfigurationGuide.md` for all available settings.