# DashCaddy Premium Billing Plan

## Locked Decisions

### Subscription plans
- 1 month — $25
- 3 months — $50
- 6 months — $65
- 12 months — $99

### Tier model
DashCaddy has one paid tier: **Premium**.
All paid plans unlock the same premium features:
- `sso` — Auto-Login SSO
- `recipes` — Multi-container stack deployment
- `swarm` — Docker Swarm multi-node orchestration

### Free tier
Everything else in DashCaddy remains available without a license.
No license is required for the free tier.

### Subscription behavior
- Billing model: recurring Stripe subscriptions
- Cancellation behavior: access remains active until the paid-through period ends
- Failed payment behavior: 7-day grace period
- Renewal behavior: premium access remains active continuously while the subscription is paid

### Licensing behavior
- License is required only for premium features
- One active machine per license/subscription at a time
- License transfer is allowed only after deactivation on the previous machine
- Existing private lifetime licenses may continue to exist internally, but no public lifetime offering will be sold

### Deployment targets
- Website source of truth: `dashcaddy.net`
- Billing/license service repo: `dashcaddy-license-server`
- Billing/license service deployment target: Contabo

## Architecture Direction
- Stripe is the billing source of truth
- DashCaddy license validation remains the product licensing source of truth
- `dashcaddy-license-server` will bridge Stripe subscriptions to DashCaddy license issuance, renewal, validation, and deactivation
- Existing DashCaddy license primitives should be reused instead of inventing a second licensing model