🚀 Enterprise-Level Upgrade: Our Biggest System Overhaul Yet

Over the past weeks, we’ve been working relentlessly on bringing our fan-support and subscription platform to a new level.
What started as a small bug fix in the Support tab turned into a full-scale enterprise-grade system – ready to compete with Patreon (and even surpass it in certain areas).

Here’s a complete breakdown of what has been shipped.

🎯 Support System Fixes

• Fixed "Failed to load tab: support" error by removing duplicate routes.
• Added debug logging for better diagnostics.
• Created a test tier (100 coins) for comics.
• Fixed redirects from /comics/1/fanpage → /fanpage/comic/1.

💰 Billing & Subscription System

🔄 Triple-Billing Options

• Monthly Cycle (Patreon-style) – pay once per month, full access to past content.
• Anniversary Billing – pay every 30 days from subscription date.
• User Choice – creators decide if fans can pick their billing type.

Creators now have full control in the Admin panel, while users get dynamic billing options in the Support tab.

📅 Smart Date Handling

• New BillingDateService handles edge cases (Feb, leap years, 31→30).
• Implements a “last day of month” strategy.
• Built-in 12-month billing schedule support.

💳 Automated Payments

• ProcessSubscriptionPayments command with dry-run mode.
• Cron job running daily at 6:00 AM.
• Grace periods: 3 days (coins), 7 days (Stripe).
• Full transaction logging in subscription-payments.log.

🪙 Currency & Coins

💱 Multi-Currency Support

• 4 supported currencies: USD, EUR, PLN, GBP.
• Full conversion logic via CurrencyConversionService.
• Helper functions like currency_to_coins() and format_coins().
• Anti-arbitrage: 1 coin = $0.10 across all currencies.

🚨 Fundamental Change: FLOAT Coins

• Migrated from INT to DECIMAL(16,4) precision.
• Updated all tables, services, and calculations to handle floats.
• Formatting rules remove trailing zeros (e.g. 10.0000 → 10).

🛡️ Anti-Fraud Protection

📊 New Database Models

• chargebacks for dispute tracking.
• fraud_warnings with 90-day history.
• suspicious_transactions for flagged payments.
• Extended users table with fraud_warnings_count & is_fraud_banned.

⚙️ Fraud Logic

• AntiFraudService handles full chargeback workflow.
• Spending trace shows exactly where coins were used.
• Author recovery reclaims coins from fraudulent users.
• Warning system:
  • Coins → 2 warnings
  • Subscriptions → 3 warnings
• Automatic bans once thresholds are exceeded.

🔗 Stripe Webhooks

• StripeWebhookController for dispute events.
• Automated handling of charge.dispute.created & charge.dispute.closed.

📱 Admin Panel

• New Fraud Analytics dashboard: /admin/analytics/fraud.
• Fraudster list with filters (banned, warned, high-risk).

📱 Subscription Management

👤 User Dashboard

• UI text updated: “Discover Comics” → “Manage Subscriptions”.
• Full subscription control in SubscriptionController.
• Pages:
  • /subscriptions/manage – dashboard
  • /subscriptions/show – subscription details
• Cancel/reactivate functionality included.

📊 Analytics

• User analytics – upcoming payments, spend tracking.
• Author analytics – MRR, churn, tier breakdown.
• Admin analytics – platform-wide metrics.

⭐ Premium Access System

📝 Project Configuration

• Added premium_access_days and enable_scheduled_publishing.
• Presets available: 1, 3, 7, 14, 21 days.
• JavaScript helper setPremiumDays() with instant feedback.

📚 Content Control

• Chapters, books, and music tracks can toggle premium individually.
• use_premium_access, premium_access_until, and per-track configs.

🔒 Access Control

• Access validation in Chapter and BookChapter controllers.
• Premium lock screen with subscription plans.
• “⭐ PREMIUM” visual badges in listings.

⏰ Scheduled Publishing

• ProcessScheduledPublishing command for timed releases.
• Cron job runs every 15 minutes.
• Supports chapters, book chapters, and music tracks.

🔧 Critical Fixes

• Coin Transfers: 95% of coins auto-transferred to authors via cron jobs.
• Default Coins: no more coins_enabled flag – coins always available.
• Premium in Tiers: new provides_premium_access option.
• Fee System: configurable transaction_fee_rate and payout_fee_rate with live previews in UI.

🔔 Notifications

• Payment success/failure notifications (email + database).
• Fraud warnings and bans integrated into the notification system.

📚 Documentation

• Complete Billing & Subscription System README (96 sections).
• Updated main README with links.
• Environment variable docs updated with currency configs.
• Clear warning for developers about FLOAT coin migration.

🧪 QA & Testing

• Verified all cron jobs, routes, and endpoints.
• Database migrations tested and confirmed safe.
• Linter cleanup across the project.
• Full error handling: graceful fallbacks everywhere.

🏆 The Result

✅ 88 new features and fixes delivered, including:

• Triple-billing system
• Bitcoin-like FLOAT coin precision
• Premium early access for subscribers
• Enterprise-grade anti-fraud protection
• Advanced analytics for users, authors, and admins
• Full automation with cron jobs, webhooks, and notifications

👉 This is not just a patch.
It’s a complete enterprise-ready system – capable of competing with Patreon and pushing beyond it in terms of flexibility, analytics, and fraud prevention.

🚀 The platform is now stronger, smarter, and ready for scale.