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Why

The in-app cancel button fires immediately: no confirmation, no reason capture, no alternative. We learn nothing from most cancellations, and customers who only need a temporary break have no option besides leaving. This PR turns cancellation into a survey → pause → discount ladder.

What

  • 3-step cancel modal replacing the one-click cancel in the plan picker: required reason (Polar's cancellation enum) + optional comment → pause offer (1–3 months; billing stops at period end, events keep flowing) → one-time 30% off for 12 months discount → frictionless cancel. op.track at every step.
  • Polar SDK 0.48.1 → 0.49.0 for pause/resume support (SubscriptionPause, paused status). Note: the SDK's price amountType union dropped 'free', two UI filters now compare via a string cast.
  • New subscription states pausing / paused through the whole state machine (webhook mapping, subscriptionBlocksDashboard, state meta, BillingPrompt paused variant with resume CTA, billing-page Resume button, tests).
  • Webhook syncs pause fields and customerCancellationReason/Comment, so portal-driven cancels are captured too.
  • Schema: subscriptionCancelReason, subscriptionCancelComment, subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt (one-offer-per-org guard), subscriptionPauseAtPeriodEnd, subscriptionResumesAt.
  • Guard: paused subs can't start a new checkout (would create a second Polar subscription) — resume first.
  • packages/payments/scripts/create-save-discount.ts provisions the reusable Polar discount; set POLAR_SAVE_DISCOUNT_ID (sandbox + prod).

Ops checklist before enabling

  • Run create-save-discount.ts in sandbox + production, set POLAR_SAVE_DISCOUNT_ID
  • Subscribe the Polar webhook endpoint to subscription.updated (already required today)

Tests

  • subscription-state.test.ts extended (33 pass): pausing/paused resolution, cancel-wins-over-pause, block/allow lists.
  • Full suite: 804 pass. pnpm typecheck clean.
  • Manually verified the paused state end-to-end with set-subscription-state.ts against the local DB.

https://claude.ai/code/session_017resSrRFv7wxsc9ifsALAh

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a guided subscription cancellation flow with reasons, comments, pause options, and eligible save discounts.
    • Added support for pausing, resuming, and unpausing subscriptions.
    • Billing screens now show paused and scheduled-pause states with relevant dates and actions.
    • Subscription cancellation details and pause/resume status are retained for improved billing visibility.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of retired free plans and unknown cancellation reasons.
    • Prevented plan changes while a subscription is paused or scheduled to pause.

…scount

- In-app cancel now runs through a 3-step modal: required reason (Polar's
  cancellation enum) + optional comment -> pause offer (1-3 months, billing
  stops at period end, events keep flowing) -> one-time 30%-off-for-12-months
  discount -> frictionless cancel.
- Polar SDK 0.48.1 -> 0.49.0 for subscription pause/resume support.
- New subscription states: pausing (active + pause scheduled) and paused
  (blocks dashboard with a resume prompt; ingestion continues as before).
- Webhook syncs pause fields + customer cancellation reason/comment, so
  portal-driven cancels are captured too.
- New org columns: subscriptionCancelReason/Comment,
  subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt, subscriptionPauseAtPeriodEnd,
  subscriptionResumesAt.
- create-save-discount script provisions the reusable Polar discount
  (POLAR_SAVE_DISCOUNT_ID).
- Checkout guard: paused subs must resume before changing plans (prevents a
  second Polar subscription).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017resSrRFv7wxsc9ifsALAh
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Walkthrough

Subscription billing now supports cancellation reasons, retention offers, subscription pauses, scheduled resumes, immediate resumes, and save discounts. The changes update persistence, payment operations, API procedures, webhook synchronization, subscription state handling, and billing UI controls.

Changes

Subscription lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lifecycle contracts and state handling
packages/db/prisma/*, packages/db/src/*, packages/db/scripts/*, packages/payments/src/subscription-state*, apps/start/src/routes/...
Subscription data now stores cancellation metadata, pause state, discount application time, and resume dates. State logic adds pausing and paused, with updated metadata, dashboard blocking, fixtures, and tests.
Polar subscription operations
packages/payments/src/polar.ts, packages/payments/scripts/create-save-discount.ts, packages/payments/package.json
Polar integration now supports cancellation metadata, pause, unpause, resume, and discount operations. The SDK version and save-discount setup script were updated.
Validated subscription procedures
packages/validation/src/index.ts, packages/trpc/src/routers/subscription.ts
Validation schemas and procedures now handle cancellation reasons, comments, pause durations, resume operations, save discounts, and paused-plan restrictions.
Provider state synchronization
apps/api/src/controllers/webhook.controller.ts
Subscription synchronization validates Polar cancellation reasons and persists cancellation, pause, and resume fields from subscription updates.
Billing cancellation and pause controls
apps/start/src/components/organization/*, apps/start/src/modals/*
The billing UI opens a multi-step cancellation retention modal and supports pause, discount, cancellation, and resume actions with analytics, query invalidation, toasts, and paused-state messaging.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7da21

The cancellation flow can consume the one-time discount for subscriptions that are not active, and a failed provider update can still mark the offer as used. Customers could therefore lose an eligible discount or remain scheduled for cancellation after using it; these cases should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BillingUI
  participant CancelSubscription
  participant SubscriptionRouter
  participant Polar
  participant OrganizationDatabase
  BillingUI->>CancelSubscription: open cancellation flow
  CancelSubscription->>SubscriptionRouter: submit reason, pause, discount, or cancellation
  SubscriptionRouter->>Polar: update subscription
  Polar-->>SubscriptionRouter: return operation result
  SubscriptionRouter->>OrganizationDatabase: persist lifecycle metadata
  OrganizationDatabase-->>BillingUI: invalidate and display updated billing state
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/start/src/components/organization/billing-plan-picker.tsx`:
- Around line 132-135: Update the cancellation flow in SelectBillingPlan so the
onComplete callback passed as popModal is forwarded to CancelSubscription.
Ensure CancelSubscription closes itself before invoking the callback after every
successful cancellation-flow mutation.

In `@packages/payments/scripts/create-save-discount.ts`:
- Around line 35-43: Update the polarApiKey prompt to use Inquirer’s password
type with masked input instead of type 'string', while preserving its existing
required-input validation.
- Around line 58-61: The discount lookup using polar.discounts.list must consume
all pages before deciding whether to create a discount. Update the
existing/match flow around DISCOUNT_NAME to iterate the returned page iterator
and search each page’s items, preserving the current match behavior once the
matching discount is found.

In `@packages/payments/src/subscription-state.ts`:
- Around line 61-66: Update the subscription-state logic so the `pausing` result
is returned only when `subscriptionPauseAtPeriodEnd` is true and
`subscriptionEndsAt` is in the future; otherwise preserve the existing
expired/active classification. Add a regression test covering a true pause flag
with an end date at or before `now`, asserting it does not return `pausing`.

In `@packages/trpc/src/routers/subscription.ts`:
- Around line 202-220: Update the pauseSubscription mutation to validate the
subscription lifecycle state before calculating resumesAt or calling
pauseSubscription: require an active subscription with neither a pending
cancellation nor an existing pause, while preserving the current organization ID
and period-end checks.
- Around line 277-290: Make the save-discount claim in the subscription handler
atomic: condition the organization update on subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt
still being unset, and only call applySubscriptionDiscount after successfully
claiming it, or use an equivalent idempotent provider operation. Preserve the
already-used error behavior and ensure concurrent requests cannot both apply the
discount.
- Around line 69-78: Update the subscription guard around subscriptionStatus and
subscriptionPauseAtPeriodEnd to reject both currently paused subscriptions and
active subscriptions scheduled to pause before entering the plan-change path.
Preserve the existing TRPCBadRequestError and message behavior for either paused
state.
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  • apps/api/src/controllers/webhook.controller.ts
  • apps/start/src/components/organization/billing-plan-picker.tsx
  • apps/start/src/components/organization/billing-prompt.tsx
  • apps/start/src/components/organization/billing.tsx
  • apps/start/src/modals/cancel-subscription.tsx
  • apps/start/src/modals/index.tsx
  • apps/start/src/routes/_app.$organizationId.tsx
  • packages/db/prisma/migrations/20260822090000_churn_cancel_flow_pause_discount/migration.sql
  • packages/db/prisma/schema.prisma
  • packages/db/scripts/set-subscription-state.ts
  • packages/db/src/prisma-client.ts
  • packages/db/src/types.ts
  • packages/payments/package.json
  • packages/payments/scripts/create-save-discount.ts
  • packages/payments/src/polar.ts
  • packages/payments/src/subscription-state-meta.ts
  • packages/payments/src/subscription-state.test.ts
  • packages/payments/src/subscription-state.ts
  • packages/trpc/src/routers/subscription.ts
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- Propagate onComplete through the cancel modal so a finished flow also
  closes the modal that opened the picker.
- Mask the Polar API key prompt and paginate the discounts listing in
  create-save-discount.
- Fail safe to paused (blocks dashboard) when a pause is scheduled but the
  period already ended — stale data must not extend access; regression tests.
- Block plan changes while a pause is scheduled, not just while paused.
- Require a plain active subscription before scheduling a pause.
- Claim the one-time save discount atomically before calling Polar and roll
  back the claim on failure.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017resSrRFv7wxsc9ifsALAh

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In `@packages/trpc/src/routers/subscription.ts`:
- Around line 292-315: Update the save-discount flow around the claimed update
and applySubscriptionDiscount to persist a recoverable pending claim before
invoking Polar, then reconcile pending claims through an idempotent provider
operation or outbox worker. Ensure process interruption between updateMany and
provider confirmation does not permanently leave
subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt set when the discount was not applied, while
preserving the single-use claim behavior.
- Around line 288-303: In the save-discount mutation, validate that the
organization’s subscriptionState is exactly active before the conditional update
that claims the offer. Reject canceling, pausing, paused, and all other states
before calling Polar or updating subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt, while
preserving the existing atomic claim behavior for active subscriptions.
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Comment on lines +288 to +303
// Claim the one-time offer atomically BEFORE calling Polar: a
// conditional update lets exactly one concurrent request through. Roll
// the claim back if Polar rejects, so a transient failure doesn't burn
// the offer.
const claimed = await db.organization.updateMany({
where: {
id: input.organizationId,
subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt: null,
},
data: { subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt: new Date() },
});
if (claimed.count === 0) {
throw new TRPCBadRequestError(
'The save discount has already been used',
);
}

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require an active subscription before claiming the save discount.

This mutation only checks subscriptionId. A canceling, pausing, or paused subscription can claim the one-time offer and call Polar. A cancellation-scheduled subscription can then retain its cancellation while the discount becomes permanently unavailable.

Reject every state except organization.subscriptionState === 'active' before the conditional update.

Proposed fix
       if (!organization.subscriptionId) {
         throw new TRPCBadRequestError('Organization has no subscription');
       }
+      if (organization.subscriptionState !== 'active') {
+        throw new TRPCBadRequestError(
+          'Only an active subscription can use the save discount',
+        );
+      }

       const claimed = await db.organization.updateMany({
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In `@packages/trpc/src/routers/subscription.ts` around lines 288 - 303, In the
save-discount mutation, validate that the organization’s subscriptionState is
exactly active before the conditional update that claims the offer. Reject
canceling, pausing, paused, and all other states before calling Polar or
updating subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt, while preserving the existing atomic
claim behavior for active subscriptions.

Comment on lines +292 to +315
const claimed = await db.organization.updateMany({
where: {
id: input.organizationId,
subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt: null,
},
data: { subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt: new Date() },
});
if (claimed.count === 0) {
throw new TRPCBadRequestError(
'The save discount has already been used',
);
}

try {
await applySubscriptionDiscount(
organization.subscriptionId,
discountId,
);
} catch (error) {
await db.organization.updateMany({
where: { id: input.organizationId },
data: { subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt: null },
});
throw error;

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Recover a claimed discount when the process exits.

If the process exits after updateMany succeeds and before Polar confirms the update, subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt remains set. Later requests return “already been used” although Polar never received the discount.

Store a recoverable pending claim and reconcile it with an idempotent provider operation or an outbox worker.

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In `@packages/trpc/src/routers/subscription.ts` around lines 292 - 315, Update the
save-discount flow around the claimed update and applySubscriptionDiscount to
persist a recoverable pending claim before invoking Polar, then reconcile
pending claims through an idempotent provider operation or outbox worker. Ensure
process interruption between updateMany and provider confirmation does not
permanently leave subscriptionSaveDiscountAppliedAt set when the discount was
not applied, while preserving the single-use claim behavior.

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Consolidated into #455 for easier testing — same commits, all review feedback from this PR already addressed there.

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