Hosted billing boundary
Status: intended, not chargeable today.
The hosted beta is free. It requests no card, has no deployed Stripe checkout, and has no server webhook path. Nothing is charged before the founder confirms.
Intended price
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Lycato | £39/month | One company, five Rooms, the Operator, Log, Ledger, inventory, and Handback |
| Self-hosted | £0 | The open local product; infrastructure and model costs remain yours |
There is no public feature ladder in the master brand. The price is expressed in GBP, in whole pounds in marketing and with two decimals in-product.
Confirmation rule
Before billing can launch, the product must show the exact price, billing period, included company, and effective date, and require an explicit founder confirmation. A beta signup, verification, or company setup action is not payment consent.
Future server boundary
- Checkout and webhooks must be idempotent and server-side.
- Entitlements must be enforced server-side, never inferred from browser state.
- Failed payment may make hosted writes read-only but must not block inventory or Handback.
- Export and signed inventory remain available before hosted deletion.
- Taxes and invoices must use the founder's billing jurisdiction.
There is no billing implementation in the repo. The isolated prototype that once
sat at hosted/unshipped/billing.js was never imported by the hosted product,
and was deleted in the 2026-08-23 apps/ move (commit 65ee343).