dashcaddy-license-server/PRODUCT_PLAN.md

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 with no free trial
• 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