{
  "id": "billing_authorization",
  "label": "Billing Authorization Canonical",
  "phase": "phase-11",
  "category": "client_provisioning_server_plans",
  "status": "ACTIVE_DH_MIRROR",
  "purpose": "Billing Authorization Canonical is the Phase 11 financial gate that decides whether Devon may create real provider cost for a client.",
  "function": "Convert a valid client contract into controlled spend permission, with cost boundary, payer authority and release evidence before provider provisioning or server purchase can proceed.",
  "technology_requirements": [
    {
      "technology": "Billing Authorization",
      "required_for": "Billing Authorization Canonical is the Phase 11 financial gate that decides whether Devon may create real provider cost for a client.",
      "required_by_phase": "phase-11",
      "required_by_category": "billing_authorization",
      "required_by_buckets": [
        "Prerequisites",
        "Installation",
        "Configuration",
        "Validation",
        "Observable Evidence",
        "Failure Modes & Recovery",
        "Completion & Promotion"
      ],
      "expected_version": "MISSING until Billing Authorization is implemented and validated in the future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "validation_command": "MISSING until billing_authorization can prove scope, evidence, execution state and promotion decision",
      "evidence_path": "/home/yeff/public_html/devon/canon/execution/state/dh_sources/billing_authorization.json",
      "status_source": "Documentation Hub + future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "blocking_if_missing": true,
      "failure_impact": "If this overview fails, Phase 11 can create operational liability before the system can prove who authorized the spend."
    }
  ],
  "depends_on": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "overview": {
    "summary": "Billing Authorization Canonical is the Phase 11 financial gate that decides whether Devon may create real provider cost for a client.",
    "function": "FUNCTION: Convert a valid client contract into controlled spend permission, with cost boundary, payer authority and release evidence before provider provisioning or server purchase can proceed.",
    "system_position": "This overview governs the financial permission to move from plan intent to paid infrastructure action. It is the point where Devon must prove that provider cost, customer authorization and provisioning timing are aligned. Its authority is payment-backed eligibility, not server configuration. It prevents infrastructure from being created on informal approval, expired billing state or ambiguous customer responsibility.",
    "failure_impact": "If this overview fails, Phase 11 can create operational liability before the system can prove who authorized the spend."
  },
  "failure_impact": "If this overview fails, Phase 11 can create operational liability before the system can prove who authorized the spend."
}