Say before checkout when no card trial is available and the plan is billed today

[helpcodeai]

Summary

An address that already had an AnythingMCP subscription gets no card trial from the licence site (hasHadSubscription in its checkout-intent), so Stripe Checkout charged it today. The app only learned that at Checkout: /start-trial said "€0 today", the trial banner said "no charge before …", and so did the licence settings and the post-Approve line. This makes all of them say the truth before checkout.

The site already exposes the same lookup to the Cloud (POST /api/license/subscription-history, service token, used by the win-back), so no new site endpoint is needed. Website side: HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp-website#380 moves the decision into one tested function (cardTrialGranted) that both paths share.

Changes

• CardTrialEligibilityService (license/card-trial-eligibility.service.ts): forAdmin() → trial (running trial, 48 h left, address never had a subscription or the site could not answer), pay (had a subscription: plan starts and is billed today), none. Answers cached 10 min per address; "unknown" is never cached. The site is only asked when a card trial would otherwise be offered.
• GET /api/license/card-trial-eligibility (Cloud, ADMIN; 404 on self-hosted).
• POST /api/license/checkout-link: no trialEnd is requested for an address that had a subscription, and the response now carries trial (whether the site granted it), read from the intent's answer.
• /start-trial: pay-today variant for those addresses. Heading "Keep your workspace running"; "This email address has had an AnythingMCP subscription before, so a new free trial is not available with a card. Your plan starts today and is billed today. …"; footnote "Starter, 19 €/month, billed today and then every month. Secure checkout by Stripe. Cancel anytime from the billing portal."; button "Continue to checkout" (a plain purchase). No "€0 today" and no trial wording.
• Safety net: if the site still refuses the trial at checkout (e.g. the pre-check could not reach it), the page does not redirect. It switches to the pay-today wording with "This address already had a subscription, so the checkout will charge 19 € today." and continues only on a second click.
• No more "7-day" on /start-trial: eyebrow "Free until 18 October 2026", heading "Your free trial", body "Every feature, free until 18 October 2026 …" (the card trial ends with the free trial, so 7 days was not true after day 1).
• Trial banner: "Choose a plan" (to /start-trial) instead of "Add a payment method, no charge before …" for those addresses. It no longer goes straight to Checkout for them. The em dashes in the banner copy are gone.
• Licence settings: "Choose a plan to keep AnythingMCP Cloud running after your trial. This address has had a subscription before, so the plan starts and is billed when you check out."
• Post-Approve line ("Nothing is charged before …"): left out for those addresses. The site gets 1.5 s; no answer keeps the line, as before.

Unknown history keeps today's behaviour (trial wording). The site checks again at checkout, and the safety net catches a refusal.

Type

• Bug fix

Testing

• Added/updated unit tests

• Tested manually

• packages/backend: npx tsc --noEmit clean; npm test 553 suites, 14,203 tests passed; npm run lint 0 errors (11 existing warnings). New: card-trial-eligibility.service.spec.ts (trial/pay/none, unknown, cache TTL, batch); license-checkout.spec.ts (no trial asked for a past subscriber, unknown still asks, trial flag from the site); login.controller.spec.ts (line left out for a past subscriber, never waits more than 1.5 s).

• packages/frontend: npx tsc --noEmit clean; lint 0 errors (26 existing warnings). Playwright card-trial.spec.ts 18 passed (3 new: pay-today page with price and a plain purchase; late refusal at checkout; banner "Choose a plan"), plus billing-awareness and neutral-signup-and-billing green.

• Website chore(deps-dev): bump autoprefixer from 10.5.0 to 10.5.2 #380: 249 tests passed.

Related Issues

HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp-website#380 · #1078 builds on this branch (its first-success offer skips admins whose address cannot start a trial).