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In the previous post I detailed the roller coaster ride of implementing e commerce enablement to the consumer site that I'll be launching in a few weeks. The service plan options that I provide allow users to manage their own private conference room in the basic "free" configuration, additional plans that require payments allow a user to manage or create multiple rooms. The problem I ran into revolved around how to provide the users the ability to create new rooms in a limited fashion. Originally I thought that the uniqueness of the problem constrained the generality of the solution so that all I needed to do was upgrade the User class to add a new "create room token" which was simply an integer indicating the number of available requests to create a room that the associated user could invoke. This solution however broke the symmetry of the permissions system in that it granted a right that the permissions granted outside of the ken of the permissions system st...