> **Draft / WIP.** Combined-billing **Mode A** (connected self-hosted). Entirely behind `stirling.billing.account-link.enabled` (default **off** → beans absent → 404). Pairs with Stirling-PDF-SaaS PR #313 (twin migration → `v3`). ## What this does A self-hosted instance links a SaaS account in the **Portal**, gets a **device credential**, and authenticates unattended metering/entitlement with it — no long-lived user JWT on the server. The Portal then surfaces the team's **billing** (free trial → metered Processor plan) driven by the live wallet. ```mermaid sequenceDiagram participant Portal as Portal (browser) participant Supa as SaaS Supabase Auth participant Local as Self-hosted backend participant SaaS as SaaS Java (app/saas) Portal->>Supa: signIn / signUp (Supabase JS, short-lived JWT) Supa-->>Portal: JWT (SDK-refreshed, stays in browser) Portal->>Local: hand JWT (same-origin) Local->>SaaS: POST /account-link/register (Bearer JWT, leader) SaaS-->>Local: { device_id, device_secret } (secret once) Note over Local: store device_secret server-side loop unattended Local->>SaaS: /api/v1/instance/** (X-Device-Id + X-Device-Secret) SaaS-->>Local: entitlement / gate decision end ``` **Auth model:** human auth = Supabase JS (ephemeral JWT, kept for attended portal features). Durable instance auth = a team-bound **device_id + secret** (SHA-256 stored, shown once), non-user `ROLE_LINKED_INSTANCE`, path-scoped to `/api/v1/instance/**`. Instance binds to a **team**, never a user. ## Billing surface (Portal · Mode A states) `Usage & billing` is state-driven by the link/subscription dimension and built to the marketing designs, sharing one component layer across states: - **Unlinked** → link-account prompt. - **Linked · Free** — the *Processor trial*: a one-time 500-PDF free grant ("Process 500 PDFs free, then $X/PDF"), the team's free-editor fleet, and a leader-only **Switch on the Processor →** (embedded Stripe Checkout). - **Linked · Subscribed** — the *Processor plan* dashboard: PDFs-processed split (API / Agents / Automation), **spend this month** vs. a **spend limit** meter with a run-rate projection and an **in-place cap editor** (preset buckets + suggested value + guardrail), Stripe **invoices** (with billed PDFs per invoice), and the default **payment method**. Card / subscription changes deep-link to Stripe's hosted portal. Manual PDF editing is always free — only Automation / AI / API is metered; a `$0` cap blocks all metered work (≠ "no cap"). **Shared, not duplicated:** the editor-fleet card, the Enterprise upsell, and the meter (`@shared/billing` `MeterBar`) render in both the free and subscribed views; money/cap math lives once in `@shared/billing`. The page header is a sticky, full-bleed bar. **New SaaS reads** (defensive — degrade to empty/"—" when the Stripe mirror lacks a table, never 500): - `GET /api/v1/payg/payment-method` — default card (brand / last4 / expiry) from `stripe.payment_methods`. - Invoice **PDFs processed** — billed line-item quantity from `stripe.invoice_line_items`. ## Progress - [x] Schema: `V22 linked_instance` (+ Supabase twin in #313) - [x] `AccountLinkController` register / list / revoke (leader-only, team from caller) - [x] Device-credential filter (path-scoped, constant-time, revocation-aware) + `SupabaseSecurityConfig` wiring (conditional) - [x] `GET /api/v1/instance/whoami` + **`/entitlement`** (reuses `EntitlementService`/`TeamBillingService`) + tests - [x] Self-hosted backend (`app/proprietary`): orchestrator + instance gate (dark + **fail-open**) + tests - [x] Portal: in-app Supabase login modal + register hand-off + `LinkContext` (unlinked default) + "Linked instances" view — all `@shared` Storybook components - [x] **Portal billing surface** — free (Processor trial) + subscribed (Processor plan) Usage views to marketing spec; link-state derived from the **live wallet**; in-place cap editor; over-cap banner - [x] **SaaS reads** — payment-method endpoint + invoice billed-units (defensive `stripe.*` mirror DAOs) + tests - [x] Orphan guard: block leaving/accepting away from a team whose departure orphans its linked instances - [ ] Metering Step 2 (lease + reconcile loop) + bounded fail-open cutoff - [ ] Proprietary hardening (SaaS base-url config, secret-at-rest, finer billable classification) + HTTP integration test - [ ] Cross-repo Stripe lifecycle certified end-to-end (subscribe → meter → cancel → 402) - [ ] Admin ⟺ SaaS-leader enforcement (separate portal-team-mgmt workstream) ## Verification — all green | Gate | Result | |---|---| | `STIRLING_FLAVOR=saas :saas:test` | BUILD SUCCESSFUL (account-link + payg, incl. `PaygPaymentMethodControllerTest`, `PaygInvoicesControllerTest`) | | `:proprietary:test` | BUILD SUCCESSFUL (account-link + entitlement cache/interceptor) | | portal | tsc 0 · eslint 0 · **vitest 55** · storybook build (all billing stories) | | frontend post-sync | typecheck shared + portal + editor (saas + desktop): 0 | ## Screenshots — billing UI _Latest Storybook renders (Portal/Billing). Drag each capture below its caption — kept out of the repo._ **Linked · Free — Processor trial** <img width="1648" height="503" alt="01-free-processor-trial" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/afe6238a-d3b4-47fd-8ea2-cbaed8b0a653" /> **Linked · Subscribed — Processor plan dashboard** <img width="1648" height="930" alt="02-subscribed-processor-plan" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/329e6808-a9a9-4e65-99af-5a8a5e6bf4ab" /> **Spend limit — in-place cap editor** <img width="1648" height="411" alt="03-spend-limit-editor" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acc95096-bf8e-4ab0-a32c-3c20dc94f816" /> ## Review feedback applied Reworked the portal after first-pass feedback: linking signs in via the **shared Supabase login** (SSO + email/password) — no bespoke form; the **device secret is never shown in or sent to the FE** (the local backend registers + stores it server-side); billing copy reads **PDFs**, not "units"; the wallet surface uses **`@shared` components** matching the SaaS Plan page. Re-verified including an assertion the link response carries no `deviceSecret`/`deviceId`. **Synced onto unified auth + in-app login (2026-06-23).** Merged `main` incl. **#6725 unified auth** (`frontend/shared/auth`); the link flow uses a shared `useSupabaseLogin` hook + `SupabaseLoginForm`, a portal `LinkAccountModal`, and `useAccountLink.completeLink(session)` (+ on-mount SSO redirect-return). Config: `VITE_SAAS_SUPABASE_URL` + `VITE_SAAS_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY`. The local `/account-link/link` call carries the Spring admin bearer with the SaaS JWT in the body. **SSO** needs the SaaS Supabase project to allow-list the portal redirect URL (email/password works without it). ## Assumptions / open - **Proprietary remains a scaffold** (placeholder SaaS base-url, plaintext device secret at rest, coarse billable classification). - Payment-method + invoice-quantity render only when `stripe.payment_methods` / `stripe.invoice_line_items` are in the Sync-Engine target (confirm in the Supabase/Sync-Engine config); otherwise they degrade gracefully. - A self-contained local HTML report + manual E2E runbook live in `notes/account-link-report/` (dev artifacts, outside the repo). --------- Co-authored-by: James Brunton <jbrunton96@gmail.com>
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