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whilesmart/eloquent-entitlements

A provider-neutral entitlements layer for Laravel: feature flags, plan limits and metered usage, all scoped to a polymorphic owner (a workspace, organization, user) through whilesmart/eloquent-owner-access.

The package ships an allow-all default, so a self-host stays fully unlocked and free. A host that wants to charge rebinds one interface to enforce plans. No payment SDK is imported anywhere; billing is a seam the host fills.

Install

Routes register automatically under the api prefix with auth:sanctum. Set ENTITLEMENTS_REGISTER_ROUTES=false to mount them yourself.

The gating seam

Everything gates through one contract, Whilesmart\Entitlements\Contracts\Entitlements:

check() returns an AccessResult (allowed, feature, reason, limit) so a denial can say why, not just no. The reason is a stable code: no_owner, no_plan, feature_not_in_plan.

Gating a route

Gate a route or group on a feature with the feature middleware. A denied request gets a 402 carrying the feature and reason:

The middleware needs to know which model owns the entitlement. The default OwnerResolver uses the authenticated user; a host that gates by workspace or organization binds its own:

The default binding, AllowAllEntitlements, allows every feature, imposes no limit and never meters. To enforce plans, rebind it to PlanEntitlements in a service provider:

Owning model

Add the trait to whatever owns entitlements:

Model layer

• Plan: a key, features (map of feature to bool), limits (map to int or null), meters (map to a monthly allowance), and an optional provider_price_id.
• Subscription: the owner's plan and lifecycle status (active, trialing, past_due, canceled, comped). The active() scope selects entitling subscriptions.
• Entitlement: a per-owner override for a single feature, limit or meter. Overrides win over the plan, so an owner can carry a bespoke cap without one.
• Coupon / CouponRedemption: comp, plan-grant and discount coupons, with every redemption recorded for audit.

PlanEntitlements resolves the four contract methods: overrides first, then whatever plan the bound PlanSource reports for the owner.

Where plans come from

PlanEntitlements holds the resolution rules (an override wins; a comp is unlimited; an absent meter allowance is unlimited) but not the storage. Finding the owner's plan is a second seam, Whilesmart\Entitlements\Contracts\PlanSource:

ResolvedPlan is a plain value object (features, limits, meters maps, read with data_get, so keys may nest). Return null when nothing entitles the owner, or ResolvedPlan::unlimited() for an entitling subscription with no plan behind it.

The default, EloquentPlanSource, reads the models above, and resolving the owner's subscription is its business rather than the caller's. So an app that models subscriptions differently, keeps plans in config, or asks a remote service, replaces only this and keeps the rules:

The models above are then just the default source's storage; a host that binds its own leaves those tables empty.

Metering

remaining and consume delegate to a UsageMeter the host binds. The default, NullUsageMeter, reports unlimited and records nothing, so the package never owns a usage table. Bind your own to count real usage:

Coupons

• comp / plan_grant create a comped subscription against the granted plan. A comp with bypass (or no plan) yields an unlimited comped subscription.
• percent_off / fixed_off record a per-owner entitlement carrying the discount for the host's billing adapter to apply at checkout. No charge happens in the package.

Redemption is rejected when the coupon is expired or has reached max_redemptions.

Billing

Whilesmart\Entitlements\Contracts\BillingProvider is the checkout seam. The default, NullBillingProvider, refuses checkout and no-ops the rest. A host binds a real adapter (Stripe, Paddle, etc.); the package stays provider-neutral and imports no payment SDK.

Endpoints

Both are owner-scoped through owner-access: a caller can only read or redeem into an owner the bound authorizer permits.

Configuration

config/entitlements.php exposes register_routes, register_migrations, route_prefix, route_middleware, the five table names, and a models map so any model can be swapped for a host subclass.

An app that binds its own PlanSource (and does not use this package's plans, subscriptions or coupons) can set register_migrations to false to take the gating contract without the tables.