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Ghost_Kitchen/docs/adr/0004-single-charge-per-order.md
lukasandClaude Sonnet 5 d291312139 Sharpen ordering domain model and close a cancellation race
CONTEXT.md described Order Item cancellability and Order completion
in ways the code didn't actually implement (cancellability only
covered the first Preparation Step; completion required pickup, not
any terminal state). Corrected the glossary to match intended
behavior, added Guest Access Token and Charge as formal terms, and
recorded the single-Charge-per-Order design as an ADR.

Also closes a real race in cancelOrderItem: a Machine could claim a
queued Step between the cancellability check and the delete, letting
an already-cooking item get cancelled and refunded. The delete now
atomically re-checks status = 'queued'.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-09 19:48:04 +02:00

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Single Charge per Order, refunded incrementally per cancelled Item

An Order is charged once, in full, at placement time — before any Order Item exists — rather than opening a separate charge per Order Item. When an Order Item is later cancelled, its share of the total is refunded against that same Charge, so one Charge can be partially refunded multiple times over an Order's life, once per cancelled Item. We chose one Charge per Order because it means a single payment authorization per customer checkout, keeping the payment-provider integration and the customer-facing checkout flow simple; the alternative — a Charge per Order Item — would let items be refunded fully independently of one another, but would mean authorizing the customer's card multiple times per Order and tracking a payment-provider transaction per Item instead of per Order.