Packs and billing

The packs

Prices are in euro and net — whatever tax applies is added on top at checkout, so reverse charge subtracts nothing from what was quoted.

Pack	Price	Per year	Who
Starter — 1,000 years	€5	€0.005	a listing's first purchase, once, never while fallen
1,000 years	€10	€0.010	anyone
Rise Again — 3,000 years	€15	€0.005	fallen listings only
5,000 years	€40	€0.008	anyone
25,000 years	€150	€0.006	anyone

Within the always-offered ladder, bigger packs cost less per year — the only discount in the product, and a posted price. The Starter and Rise Again sit outside the ladder: their prices belong to a state (a first purchase; having fallen), and the state is enforced at checkout, not just on the page.

Business customers only

Checkout is Stripe Checkout in single-payment mode, by card. It requires a billing address and collects a business tax ID wherever Stripe can validate one. Highlander is not sold to consumers.

• German businesses are charged 19% VAT on top of the net price.
• EU businesses with a validated VAT ID are reverse-charged.
• Outside the EU, no VAT is added.

Stripe issues an invoice for the payment. The Terms version on screen at the time travels with the session, so the record of the sale says which terms it was made under.

What a completed payment does

One event does all of it — checkout.session.completed, idempotent on the Checkout Session id, so a webhook redelivery credits once:

1. Credits the years to the listing named in the session, in whichever Gathering is open when the money arrives.
2. Proves the domain, if the listing was still in The Mists and the payment can say whose it is — the listing has no owner yet, or the account paying is the one that owns it. This is the second door out of the Mists, and the free grant of 250 years is minted on it too. A payment from anybody else credits the years and proves nothing: identity is what this door reads, and a stranger's card is not identity. Checkout refuses that sale up front rather than taking the money for a door it will not open.
3. Revives the listing, if it had been beheaded. It goes back on the board with the years just bought. The years it held before the strike are spent, and the record of the fall stays in The Fallen.

A revival can be refused, and correctly so: if somebody else claimed the domain while you were down, one live entry per registrable domain still holds. The years stay credited.

It also puts the listing back on the board only if nothing else was keeping it off. A listing that was reported off the board before it fell comes back beheaded-no-longer and still held — a pack buys years, and a moderation decision is not for sale. Your dashboard says which it is.

Anyone may pay for anyone

The buy panel is on every listing's public page, not only your own. Paying for somebody else's survival is a gift: the years are minted to them, never to the payer, and nothing in the product turns a gift into an advantage — not rank, not ownership, and not a domain proof. The one listing the panel is not offered on is somebody else's unproven one, because that is the single case where a payment would buy something rather than give it.

Chargebacks

A charge.dispute.created on a pack takes that pack's years back off the same listing, once. A dispute that cannot be traced to a specific purchase writes nothing at all — guessing would take years from somebody who paid for them.

Refunds and expiry

• There is nothing recurring and nothing to cancel. A pack is a single purchase.
• Years are spent only on delivery — visits and upkeep — and never move between listings.
• Unspent years carry from one Gathering to the next automatically while the listing is standing.
• Unspent years expire 12 months after purchase. See the Terms, which is where the refund position and the shutdown position live.