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A parent registers once and manages lessons for one or more children, who
need no login of their own. A child is a real wp_users row with the student
role but no usable login — so student_id keeps meaning "a WordPress user"
on every table, and booking, credits, policies and enrolments work unchanged.
A us_guardians link table maps guardian to child.

The signup form gains a parent/guardian tick that reveals a block per child,
with the account-signup questions asked per child rather than per guardian
— they describe the student, not the account holder. Signup policies are
recorded once per child with the guardian as the acceptor, which is the
record that actually means something. A family that half-creates is rolled
back entirely rather than leaving a guardian who cannot re-register.

The booking and enrolment forms gain a "Who is this for?" picker listing
children first, so the default selection is never the parent — booking for
the wrong child is correctable, quietly billing a parent for their kid's
lesson is not. POST /bookings and POST /enrollments take an optional
student_id honoured only for that child's guardian; anything else is a 403.
That check is the authorisation boundary of the feature.

Payments and credits gain a payer: the charge names the child it was for and
the guardian who owes it, so per-child reporting is unchanged while notices,
receipts and the payment step reach the parent. Credit is held by the payer,
so one child's cancellation can settle a sibling's charge, and the daily
billing scan sends a guardian one notice covering every child.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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# Feature: Student Credits (cancelled paid lessons)
## Overview
When a lesson that has **already been paid for** is cancelled, the student is
credited the amount they paid for *that lesson*. The credit sits on their account
and is automatically applied against their future scheduled-billing charges
(weekly / monthly) before they are asked to pay — so a cancelled-and-paid lesson
becomes money toward the next one rather than a manual refund.
This complements — it does not replace — the existing cancellation behaviour: a
still-**pending** payment is voided (`PaymentService::voidPending`), and only a
**paid** payment produces a credit.
## Credit amount — one lesson's share
The credit is one lesson's share of the covering payment's **total (including
tax)**:
| Covering payment | Lessons it covers | Credit on cancelling one |
|------------------|-------------------|--------------------------|
| Single booking (one-time / full-term single) | 1 | the whole total |
| Weekly **scheduled** lesson | 1 (one payment per lesson) | the whole total |
| Monthly **scheduled** charge | N lessons that month | `total ÷ N` |
| Weekly reservation **series** paid upfront (full-term) | the whole series | `total ÷ series size` |
The divisor is resolved in `PaymentService::coveredLessonCount`: a weekly series
paid upfront (an *unscheduled* payment on a lesson that has a `series_id`) divides
by the series size (`BookingRepository::countBySeries`); every other case divides
by how many lessons point at the payment (`BookingRepository::countByPaymentId`),
which is 1 for a single or weekly-scheduled lesson and N for a monthly charge.
The original payment is **left untouched** — the studio keeps the money it
collected; the credit is a forward-looking liability offset against future
billing, never a refund of past revenue.
### Guards
- Only a **paid** payment credits; an unpaid/pending one is voided instead.
- A lesson is credited **once**`CreditRepository::existsForLesson` blocks a
second credit if the same lesson is cancelled again after being reinstated.
- A non-anchor lesson in a series (no `payment_id` of its own) is credited through
the series anchor's payment.
## Applying credit at billing time
The daily scan (`Payment\ScheduledBillingRunner`) generates each student's due
payments, then — before sending the notice — applies their available credit
across those charges oldest-first (`PaymentService::applyCredits`):
- Each payment's `us_payments.credit_applied` is raised by the amount covered,
reducing what the student owes (`Payment::netDue()`).
- A payment **fully** covered by credit is marked **paid-by-credit** (status
`paid`, registration confirmed) so it drops out of the admin confirmation queue.
- A payment **partially** covered stays `pending` at its reduced net due, shown in
the admin Payments queue and on the notice.
- The credit ledger is drawn down by the total applied
(`CreditRepository::consume`, FIFO), marking each spent credit `consumed`.
The consolidated notice email (`Payment\PaymentDueMailer`) lists each charge at
its full amount, then an **"Account credit applied: -X"** line and the reduced
**Total due**. When the balance is zero the notice still goes out (so the student
knows their credit covered it) but carries no e-transfer destination or reference.
## Admin visibility
The studio admin sees a student's credit on their **student detail** page (gated by
`manage_billing`, like the payment history). An **Account credit** section shows the
available balance and a table of every credit — date, reason, original amount,
remaining, and status (`available` / `consumed`). Built by
`Auth\StudentHistory::creditBalance` / `::credits`.
## Data model — `{prefix}us_credits`
| Column | Type | Notes |
|---------------------|-----------------|---------------------------------------------------|
| `id` | BIGINT UNSIGNED | Primary key |
| `student_id` | BIGINT UNSIGNED | WordPress user ID |
| `amount` | DECIMAL(10,2) | Original credit amount |
| `remaining` | DECIMAL(10,2) | Unused balance |
| `currency` | VARCHAR(3) | ISO 4217 |
| `source_payment_id` | BIGINT UNSIGNED | Payment that paid for the cancelled lesson |
| `source_lesson_id` | BIGINT UNSIGNED | The cancelled lesson (dedup key) |
| `reason` | VARCHAR(191) | Human-readable note |
| `status` | VARCHAR(20) | `available` / `consumed` |
| `created_at` | DATETIME | Insertion time |
| `updated_at` | DATETIME | Last draw-down; NULL until first consumed |
A new column on `{prefix}us_payments`:
| Column | Type | Notes |
|------------------|---------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| `credit_applied` | DECIMAL(10,2) | Account credit applied to this payment; `netDue = total credit_applied` |
> **Schema change:** `us_credits` and `us_payments.credit_applied` ship as part of
> the (as-yet-unreleased) **1.2.0** — the same release as scheduled billing — so
> `Installer`/`dbDelta` create them when a pre-1.2.0 site upgrades. If you are on a
> 1.2.0 *dev* build that predates this feature, the stored `us_schedular_version`
> already matches `USC_VERSION`, so `Plugin::boot()` will not re-run the installer;
> reactivate the plugin (or bump the version) to pick the new table/column up.
## Reporting caveat
Credits never touch past revenue and a credit-covered future charge is still
marked `paid`, so `PaymentReport` (which sums `status = paid`) counts the original
paid lesson and the later credit-covered lesson as gross revenue. This mirrors the
design choice to leave the original payment intact rather than represent a partial
refund of a shared payment.
## Implementation
- Model: `Unsupervised\Schedular\Payment\Credit`
- Repository: `Unsupervised\Schedular\Payment\CreditRepository`
- Issue on cancel: `PaymentService::creditForCancelledLesson`
(called from `Booking\BookingEndpoint::cancel` and `::updateStatus`)
- Apply at billing: `PaymentService::applyCredits`, driven by
`Payment\ScheduledBillingRunner::sendNotices`
- Net due: `Payment::netDue()`, `PaymentRepository::addCreditApplied`
- Lesson counts: `Booking\BookingRepository::countByPaymentId` / `countBySeries`
- Admin view: `Auth\StudentHistory::creditBalance` / `::credits`, rendered in
`templates/admin/student-detail.php`
## Tests
- `tests/Unit/Payment/CreditRepositoryTest.php`
- `tests/Unit/Payment/PaymentServiceTest.php` (`creditForCancelledLesson`, `applyCredits`)
- `tests/Unit/Payment/ScheduledBillingRunnerTest.php` (credit applied to a run)
- `tests/Unit/Payment/PaymentDueMailerTest.php` (credit line + reduced total)
- `tests/Unit/Payment/PaymentTest.php` (`netDue`)
- `tests/Unit/Booking/BookingEndpointTest.php` (credit issued on cancel)
- `tests/Unit/Auth/StudentHistoryTest.php` (`creditBalance`, `credits`)
## Family Balances
A credit records the student it was earned for (`student_id`) and the account
that **holds** it (`payer_id`). Balance lookups — `availableBalance()`,
`findAvailableByPayer()`, `consume()` — key on the payer, so a family shares one
balance and a credit from one child's cancelled lesson can settle a sibling's
next charge. A child's admin screen still lists the credits their own
cancellations produced, labelled with whose account holds the balance. See
`parent-guardian-accounts.md`.