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+-- Auto-charge tuition when a student is marked present or late.
+--
+-- Idempotency is the whole problem here. The attendance UI upserts on
+-- (student_id, date) and teachers freely toggle a status — present, then absent,
+-- then present again. A naive "insert a charge on attendance" trigger bills the
+-- family once per click. So each auto-charge is bound to the attendance row that
+-- caused it via ledger_entries.attendance_id (UNIQUE), which makes the write an
+-- upsert and lets a status change back to absent *remove* the charge.
+--
+-- Manual ledger entries keep attendance_id NULL. Postgres allows unlimited NULLs
+-- in a unique index, so hand-entered charges are unaffected, and the UI can tell
+-- auto from manual by whether attendance_id is set.
+
+-- Per-student daily rate. NULL (the default) means "never auto-charge", so
+-- nothing starts billing until a rate is deliberately set on a student.
+ALTER TABLE public.students
+  ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS daily_tuition_cents INTEGER;
+
+ALTER TABLE public.ledger_entries
+  ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS attendance_id UUID REFERENCES public.attendance(id) ON DELETE CASCADE;
+
+-- One auto-charge per attendance record, and deleting the attendance record
+-- takes its charge with it (ON DELETE CASCADE above).
+DO $$ BEGIN
+  ALTER TABLE public.ledger_entries ADD CONSTRAINT ledger_entries_attendance_id_key UNIQUE (attendance_id);
+EXCEPTION WHEN duplicate_table OR duplicate_object THEN NULL; END $$;
+
+-- SECURITY DEFINER because the writer is a *teacher* marking attendance, and
+-- ledger_entries is admin-write under RLS. The teacher never gains general
+-- ledger access — only this function's fixed, attendance-derived write.
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.sync_attendance_tuition()
+RETURNS TRIGGER LANGUAGE plpgsql SECURITY DEFINER SET search_path = public AS $$
+DECLARE
+  rate INTEGER;
+BEGIN
+  SELECT daily_tuition_cents INTO rate FROM public.students WHERE id = NEW.student_id;
+
+  -- 'present' and 'late' are billable: the student attended either way.
+  -- 'absent' and 'excused' are not.
+  IF NEW.status IN ('present', 'late') AND rate IS NOT NULL AND rate > 0 THEN
+    INSERT INTO public.ledger_entries
+      (student_id, date, kind, category, amount_cents, note, created_by, attendance_id)
+    VALUES
+      (NEW.student_id, NEW.date, 'charge', 'tuition', rate,
+       'Auto-charged from attendance (' || NEW.status || ')', NEW.recorded_by, NEW.id)
+    ON CONFLICT (attendance_id) DO UPDATE
+      SET amount_cents = EXCLUDED.amount_cents,
+          date         = EXCLUDED.date,
+          note         = EXCLUDED.note;
+  ELSE
+    -- Status moved to absent/excused, or the rate was cleared: undo the charge.
+    DELETE FROM public.ledger_entries WHERE attendance_id = NEW.id;
+  END IF;
+
+  RETURN NEW;
+END $$;
+
+DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trg_attendance_tuition ON public.attendance;
+CREATE TRIGGER trg_attendance_tuition
+AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON public.attendance
+FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION public.sync_attendance_tuition();
+
+-- Deliberately NOT backfilled. Existing attendance records stay unbilled —
+-- retroactively generating charges against families' balances should be an
+-- explicit decision, not a side effect of deploying this migration. Re-saving an
+-- attendance record re-fires the trigger and bills that day at the current rate.