Upgrade Modal
Sell the upgrade at the exact moment someone wants it.
What it adds
A focused upsell that appears when a free user reaches for a paid capability.
What your agent is told to do
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What your agent is told to do
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Trigger it at the point of intent — when they click the locked thing — not on a timer or on page load.
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Name the specific feature they just tried to use. A generic pricing modal converts far worse.
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State the price plainly and give one button to upgrade.
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Make it easy to dismiss, and don't show it again immediately.
Edge cases it handles
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Edge cases it handles
4- Never show it to a user who already has the plan.
- Do not show it repeatedly in one session — that's harassment, not marketing.
- The modal must not be the only path to pricing.
- Dismissing must return them exactly where they were.
Definition of done
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Definition of done
7- It triggers on intent, not on a timer.
- It names the specific feature that was blocked.
- It never shows to users who already have the plan.
- Frequency is capped per session.
- Focus is trapped and restored on dismiss.
- The feature matches the existing design system.
- No existing functionality is broken.
Related features
Usage Limits
Usage Limits
Cap what free accounts can do — visibly and fairly.
What it does
Per-plan usage limits, enforced server-side, with the user always able to see where they stand.
How it works
- 1 Define limits per plan in one place. Do not scatter magic numbers through the codebase.
- 2 Enforce on the server at the point of creation. A client-side check is decoration.
- 3 Show current usage BEFORE the user hits the wall — surprise limits feel like a bug.
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Billing Portal
Billing Portal
Let people manage their own subscription.
What it does
A billing area where users can see their plan, change payment method, get invoices, and cancel.
How it works
- 1 Use the payment provider's hosted billing portal if it has one. Do not rebuild card management — it's a PCI liability you don't need.
- 2 Show the current plan, renewal date, and payment method on your own account page.
- 3 Make cancelling possible without emailing support. Dark patterns here generate chargebacks.
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Feature Gating
Feature Gating
Lock premium features behind a plan — without wrecking the free experience.
What it does
A consistent way to gate features by plan, and to sell the upgrade at the moment of intent.
How it works
- 1 Find where plan/subscription state already lives on the user. Do not invent a second source of truth.
- 2 Enforce every gate SERVER-SIDE. Hiding a button is not a gate, it is a hint — assume the user will call the endpoint directly.
- 3 Add one reusable client-side gate component for the UI affordance.
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How it works
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Copy the link
Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.
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Give it to your AI
Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.
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It inspects, then implements
Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.
Works with your stack
These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.
Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.