This gates API-token access and outgoing account webhooks behind the
`api_and_webhooks` account feature introduced in #14972. On Chatwoot
Cloud, Hacker accounts lose token-authenticated account API access and
account webhook delivery, while paid accounts retain them through the
billing-plan feature reconcile. Community and self-hosted installations
continue to work without any upgrade-time interruption.
## What changed
- Added `Account#api_and_webhooks_enabled?` as the single backend kill
switch. Core returns enabled; the Enterprise override consults the
account flag on Chatwoot Cloud and remains enabled off-Cloud.
- Account-scoped v1 and v2 requests authenticated with a user or
agent-bot API token now return `403 Forbidden` when the feature is
disabled. Invalid tokens still return 401, and dashboard session
requests are unaffected.
- Profile responses return an empty access token when none of the user's
accounts has access. The stored token is preserved, and the profile UI
disables its token controls with paid-plan copy on Cloud.
- Account webhook delivery stops when the feature is disabled. Webhook
CRUD remains available to session-authenticated dashboard requests,
API-inbox webhooks continue to be delivered, and the Cloud dashboard
shows a webhook paywall instead of the webhook list.
- Removed the database backfill migration. Existing paid Cloud accounts
should be enabled with the one-off script below before enforcement is
deployed.
## Existing paid-account rollout
Run this as an ad-hoc Rails runner script on Chatwoot Cloud. It
intentionally targets only the Startups, Business, and Enterprise plans
and does not add `api_and_webhooks` to `manually_managed_features`, so
future billing reconciles remain authoritative.
```rb
paid_plan_names = %w[Startups Business Enterprise]
accounts = Account.where("custom_attributes ->> 'plan_name' IN (?)", paid_plan_names)
total = accounts.count
enabled = 0
skipped = 0
puts "Enabling api_and_webhooks for #{total} paid account(s)..."
accounts.find_each(batch_size: 500).with_index(1) do |account, processed|
if account.feature_enabled?('api_and_webhooks')
skipped += 1
else
account.enable_features!('api_and_webhooks')
enabled += 1
end
puts "Processed #{processed}/#{total}..." if (processed % 1000).zero?
end
puts "Done! Enabled: #{enabled}, Skipped: #{skipped}, Total: #{total}"
```
For example, save the snippet outside the repository as
`enable_api_and_webhooks.rb`, then run:
```sh
bundle exec rails runner /path/to/enable_api_and_webhooks.rb
```
## How to test
- On Cloud, use a Hacker account and confirm token-authenticated
requests to account-scoped v1 and v2 endpoints return 403, while the
same dashboard actions continue to work through session authentication.
- Confirm profile access-token controls are disabled with paid-plan copy
when all accounts are ineligible, and remain available when at least one
account has the feature.
- Confirm the Webhooks settings page shows the billing paywall for a
Cloud account without the feature; admins get the billing action and
agents get the existing ask-an-admin message.
- Confirm outgoing account webhooks stop for an ineligible Cloud account
while API-inbox webhooks still deliver.
- Confirm community and self-hosted installations retain API and webhook
behavior after upgrading, even when an existing account does not have
the stored feature bit.
### Screenshots
## Cloud
<img width="2590" height="642" alt="CleanShot 2026-07-15 at 15 13 14@2x"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/431a7bd8-1742-4e7a-b312-d3ad92015f9b"
/>
<img width="2152" height="994" alt="CleanShot 2026-07-15 at 15 14 37@2x"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/475dda48-d1c5-4be5-a3c3-7a96b9713724"
/>
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Co-authored-by: Muhsin Keloth <muhsinkeramam@gmail.com>
