* feat(pricing): collapse to two tiers (Community + Admiral)
Collapse Sencho's pricing from three tiers (Community / Skipper / Admiral)
to two: a generous free Community tier and a single paid Admiral tier. The
Skipper tier is removed.
Now free in Community: auto-heal, auto-update, scheduled operations,
webhooks, notification routing, Fleet Actions and bulk operations, SSO
preset providers (Google / GitHub / Okta), unlimited users with admin and
viewer roles, and deploy safety (atomic deploys, auto-rollback, and
one-click rollback).
Admiral (paid) is focused on running and governing a fleet: blueprints,
Fleet Secrets, deploy enforcement, vulnerability report export, audit log,
host console, private registries, mesh networking, node cordon, managed
cloud backup, LDAP / Active Directory SSO, and the advanced RBAC roles
(deployer, node-admin, auditor) with per-resource scoped assignments.
Internally the license variant distinction is removed so tier is binary
(community / paid). License validation still verifies the Lemon Squeezy
store and product before granting paid status.
Docs and the contributor guide are updated to the two-tier model.
* docs(pricing): correct licensing page to two-tier pricing and tidy stale tier wording
The licensing docs page kept the old Admiral pricing plus a Founder
Lifetime column and an Enterprise paragraph after the two-tier collapse.
Update it to $12/month or $99/year, drop the lifetime and Enterprise
content, and link to the pricing page for current pricing.
Also fix stale "Skipper" wording in CLA.md, SUPPORT.md, one test title,
and three test comments. Historical CHANGELOG entries and the
retired-Skipper license-guard test are intentionally left as-is.
* docs: align licensing and SSO pages with the two-tier model
Correct the SSO overview so the Google, GitHub, and Okta presets read as
available on every tier, matching the provider table; only LDAP and Active
Directory require Sencho Admiral. Remove the lifetime-plan references from the
licensing, settings, and troubleshooting pages so they reflect subscription-only
Admiral pricing.
* fix(rbac): omit scoped permissions from /me on the Community tier
Scoped role assignments only take effect on the paid tier, but GET /api/permissions/me returned them unconditionally, so a downgraded instance with leftover assignments rendered per-resource affordances the API then rejected with 403. The endpoint now mirrors the permission middleware and includes scoped permissions only on the paid tier. Adds a regression test covering the downgrade case.
* docs: use custom-pricing wording on the contact page
The two-tier model has no Enterprise tier; reword the contact page's enterprise pricing/deals to custom pricing/deals so it does not imply a tier that no longer exists.
Fresh installs land on the Community tier. The 14-day Admiral trial is now
issued by Lemon Squeezy via their hosted checkout: the user enters email +
card, receives a license key by email, and pastes it into the existing
Settings > License activation field.
Backend changes:
- LicenseService.initialize() no longer auto-creates a license_status='trial'
row on first boot. It now only ensures an instance_id exists and starts
periodic validation.
- Drop the TRIAL_DURATION_DAYS constant.
- Drop the status='trial' early-return in getVariant() so LS-issued trials
resolve through the normal variant metadata path (variant_name / product_name).
- Trial branches in getTier() and getLicenseInfo() are retained for future
work that may detect trial state from Lemon Squeezy metadata; they are
currently unreachable via the Sencho code paths.
Frontend changes:
- Settings > License surfaces a new "Try Admiral free for 14 days" CTA block
with Start monthly trial and Start annual trial buttons that open Lemon
Squeezy hosted checkout. The CTA is visible only when the user has no paid
access and is not already on a trial.
- Reserve the Admiral upgrade card for the Skipper-active upgrade path so
unlicensed users see one Admiral path (the trial CTA) instead of two.
- Pull the inline Lemon Squeezy checkout URLs into named module constants so
the Skipper, Admiral monthly, and Admiral annual endpoints are defined in
one place.
Test changes:
- license-service.test.ts covers the no-auto-trial startup path and updates
the trial-variant test to reflect the metadata-driven resolution.
- afterAll in the initialize() describe block calls destroy() so the 72-hour
validation interval does not leak into sibling test files.
Docs:
- Rewrite the Free trial section in features/licensing.mdx to document the
new LS checkout flow (email + card required, auto-converts on day 14 unless
cancelled).
- Add an operations/troubleshooting entry for cases where the trial license
key email does not arrive.
Lemon Squeezy variant names describe billing periods ("Lifetime",
"Monthly", "Annual") without containing the tier name. resolveVariantType
now checks both variant_name and product_name (e.g. "Sencho Admiral") to
correctly identify the tier. Fixes Admiral licenses being misidentified
as Skipper when the LS variant name is just "Lifetime".
Rename internal variant values from 'personal'/'team' to 'skipper'/'admiral',
aligning code with user-facing tier names. Variant type is now resolved once
at activation/validation and stored in DB via license_variant_type, instead
of string-matching the Lemon Squeezy variant_name on every read. Also captures
variant_id for future lookups. Pre-existing installs auto-migrate on first
getVariant() call.
* fix(licensing): resolve Admiral variant detection and lifetime license handling
The Lemon Squeezy variant name for Admiral licenses contains "Admiral"
(not "Team"), but getVariant() only checked for "team" and "personal".
This caused Admiral licenses to be misidentified as Skipper, locking all
Admiral-exclusive features.
- Map "admiral" variant names to internal "team" value, "skipper" to "personal"
- Add isLifetime field to LicenseInfo API response
- Hide "Manage Subscription" button for lifetime licenses (no billing portal)
- Show "Duration: Lifetime" instead of empty renewal date
- Hide upgrade cards for active Admiral users
- Add 23 unit tests covering variant resolution, tier computation, and lifetime detection
- Add troubleshooting entries for wrong tier label, locked features, and billing portal errors
* fix(licensing): address code review findings
- Fix nested ternary in LicenseSection JSX; restore conditional rendering
to avoid showing an empty "N/A" row for non-subscription states
- Clean up test file: use shared svc variable, remove redundant comments,
add trialDaysRemaining assertions, rename describe block
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