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A comprehensive update improving email reliability, notification experience, payment recovery workflows, and social engagement across the platform.

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Email Improvements

All notification emails now have proper unsubscribe options:
  • New User Registered emails — Added unsubscribe support so recipients can opt out
  • Backstage Request Handled emails — Added unsubscribe support
  • Weekly/Monthly Performance Reports — Unsubscribe options now fully functional

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More Encouraging Performance Reports

Producers receiving weekly or monthly performance reports will now see friendlier messaging, especially when starting out:
  • Personalized greeting — Reports now address you by name (“Hey [Your Name],”)
  • Encouraging tone for low activity — Instead of showing “0 downloads, $0 earned” with negative growth percentages, reports now display em dashes (—) for zero stats and include encouraging messages like “Your journey is just beginning!”
  • Growth tips section — When engagement is low, reports include actionable tips to help grow your audience
  • Fixed growth calculations — No more confusing negative percentages like “-83.3%” — growth comparisons are now accurate and only shown when meaningful

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Fixed Duplicate Site Names

Resolved an issue where email footers showed duplicate text like “BeatPass™ | The producer hub.™ | The producer hub.” — emails now display the site name cleanly without repetition.

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Promotional Notifications Overhaul

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Seasonal Themes Now Match Emails

Promotional in-app notifications now match the themed colors of promotional emails:
SeasonColor
ValentinePink
HalloweenOrange
ChristmasRed/Green
SummerYellow
WinterBlue
SpringGreen
Black FridayGold
New YearPurple
Cyber MondayCyan
EasterLavender
Plus 10+ additional seasonal themes — all 20+ themes from email templates are now supported in-app.

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Cleaner Notification Design

Promotional notifications have been redesigned with a simpler, cleaner look:
  • Removed — Heavy gradients, pulsing animations, and scale transforms that clashed with the notification panel
  • Added — Subtle background tint with a colored left border matching the seasonal theme
  • Result — Notifications now integrate smoothly with the rest of your notification feed

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Countdown Timers for Coupon Offers

Time-limited coupon offers now display dynamic countdown timers:
  • Automatic countdown — Shows time remaining until coupon expires
  • Smart formatting — Displays “3 days, 4 hours” or “2 hours, 15 minutes” depending on urgency
  • Color-coded urgency — Changes from muted → amber → red → bright red as expiration approaches
  • Expires in 7 days — Countdown appears when coupon is about to expire

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Auto-Destruct for Expired Offers

Promotional notifications now disappear automatically when the associated coupon expires — no manual cleanup needed. The notification system filters out expired offers from:
  • Your notification list
  • Unread notification badge count

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Payment Recovery & Overdue Subscriptions

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New Payment Recovery Flow

If your subscription payment fails, you’ll now see a helpful recovery popup instead of losing access without explanation:
  • Automatic detection — The platform checks your subscription status in real-time
  • Blocking popup — Appears when payment is overdue to prompt immediate action
  • Two clear options:
    1. Retry Payment — Instantly retry the failed charge with your existing card
    2. Switch to Free — Cancel the subscription and downgrade to the free plan

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Payment Retry Features

  • Idempotent retries — Clicking “Retry” multiple times won’t create duplicate charges
  • Clear error messages — If the card is declined, you’ll see exactly why (expired card, insufficient funds, etc.)
  • Success confirmation — See the amount paid and confirmation that your subscription is reactivated
  • Rate limiting protection — Prevents accidental spam-clicking

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Download Blocking for Overdue Accounts

To protect producer revenue, users with overdue subscriptions cannot download tracks until payment is resolved:
  • Download button — Clicking download triggers the payment recovery popup
  • Context menus — Download options in track menus also trigger recovery flow
  • Pre-download check — The modal checks subscription status before starting downloads
  • Graceful handling — Users can browse and stream music; only downloads are blocked

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Invoice Page Fixes

  • Fixed 500 error when viewing invoice details
  • Currency symbols now display correctly on all invoices

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Social Engagement: Auto-Follow on Download

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Automatic Artist Following

When you download a track, you now automatically follow all artists associated with that track:
  • Instant follow — Happens automatically with every download
  • Collaborative tracks — If a track has multiple artists (collaborations), you follow all of them
  • Smart exclusions — You won’t follow artists you already follow, or your own artist profiles
  • Notifications — Artists receive follow notifications when someone downloads their track (except during the backfill process)

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Backfilled Historical Downloads

Existing downloads have been processed to create artist follows:
  • 52 download pairs processed
  • 16 new artist follows created
  • 33 already following (skipped)
  • 7 self-owned artists (skipped)
This helps connect users with artists they’ve already shown interest in by downloading their beats.

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Backfill Command

Admins can run the backfill command to process specific users or all historical downloads: 
# Preview what would happen (no changes)
php artisan follows:backfill-downloads --dry-run

# Process all historical downloads
php artisan follows:backfill-downloads

# Process specific user only
php artisan follows:backfill-downloads --user=123

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Technical Details

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Email Notification Updates

NotificationChange
NewUserRegisteredAdded GetsUserPreferredChannels and HasEmailUnsubscribe traits
BackstageRequestWasHandledAdded unsubscribe support
AnalyticsReportNotificationAdded encouraging messaging logic, fixed growth calculation
Email templatesRemoved hardcoded “The producer hub.” duplications

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Promotional Notification System

  • 20+ seasonal themes added to promotional-notification-item.tsx
  • Countdown component uses coupon_starts_at and coupon_expires_at from notification data
  • Auto-destruct filters expired promotional notifications from API responses and unread counts
  • Color coding: muted → amber-500 → red-500 → red-600 (bold) based on urgency

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Payment Recovery Implementation

  • Real-time Stripe checks via /api/billing/subscription-status endpoint
  • Polling strategy: 60 seconds normal, 10 seconds when overdue
  • Three new API endpoints:
    • GET /api/billing/subscription-status — Real-time Stripe status
    • POST /api/billing/retry-payment — Idempotent payment retry
    • POST /api/billing/switch-to-free — Cancel and downgrade
  • Error handling: Specific handling for 401 (session expired), 402 (payment declined), 429 (rate limited)

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Auto-Follow Service

  • AutoFollowService handles following logic with transactional safety
  • DownloadLocalTrackController calls autoFollowArtistsOnDownload() after successful download
  • BackfillDownloadFollows command processes historical analytics events
  • Non-blocking — Follow failures are logged but don’t prevent downloads

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Admin Impersonation Fix

  • ActiveSession model now has impersonator_id column
  • LogActiveSessionJob tracks impersonator from session data
  • UserSessionsController filters out sessions where impersonator_id IS NOT NULL

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What’s Next

These updates improve the overall user experience across email communications, notifications, billing recovery, and social features. Upcoming improvements include:
  • Enhanced notification preferences
  • More analytics insights for producers
  • Additional mobile UX refinements
Last modified on February 3, 2026