₹399 Became Three Different Prices, and I Don't Know Why: A Pricing Bug in Razorpay Subscription Tiers
From the very first working version of MockEvalio, there was one paid plan: Free, or Pro at ₹399 a month. That number sat in the product for a month without anyone being able to actually pay it — the Razorpay keys were wired into the config from the second commit of the whole project, but nothing behind them worked yet. Then, within nine hours of that finally changing, ₹399 stopped being the…
When the MockEvalio project first launched, there was a single paid plan: Pro for ₹399 per month. This price remained unchanged for a month until Razorpay's payment integration was finally implemented. On April 3, the first commit was pushed that enabled actual payments through Razorpay's orders API, verification, webhooks, and a checkout flow.
However, just nine hours later, the price of the Pro tier had changed to three different values: Free at ₹0, Starter at ₹99, Pro at ₹299, and Premium at ₹499. The new pricing structure consisted of four tiers, with the Pro tier priced at ₹299, which was now lower than the previous ₹399. No reason was provided in the commit messages for why the new tiers were introduced or the specific price points chosen.
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