Budget email notifications shipped opt-in, then #733 turned all three on
by default. The per-transaction notice is the wrong one to force on: it
emails on **every single transaction** assigned to a budget, and a
catch-all budget matches all of them. This puts it back to opt-in and
leaves the limit alerts (close to limit, over limit) on by default.
## Why a second migration instead of editing the first one
`2026_07_24_100000_enable_budget_notifications_by_default` **has already
run in production** (batch 76). Laravel never re-runs an applied
migration, so editing it in place would have been inert: 382 budgets and
174 settings rows would keep the flag on, and the `user_settings` column
default would stay `true`.
That default matters beyond new signups: every settings controller
writes its own column through `setting()->updateOrCreate(...)`, so a
user who merely changed their chart colour scheme would get a settings
row with `budget_notify_on_new_transaction = 1` filled in by MySQL —
silently opted in, with the checkbox rendering as checked.
So the original migration is restored to its merged form and a new one
resets the flag: column default back to `false`, plus a one-off reset of
existing `user_settings` and `budgets` rows. It uses the query builder,
so `updated_at` is untouched — same as the force-enable did. 381 of the
382 affected budgets had not been touched by their owner since the
deploy, so the reset undoes a force-enable rather than a user's choice.
## Changes
- New migration resetting
`user_settings.budget_notify_on_new_transaction` (default + rows) and
`budgets.notify_on_new_transaction`.
- `BudgetController::store` and
`NotificationPreferenceController::index` fall back to `false` for the
per-transaction flag when a user has no settings row.
- `UserSettingFactory` matches the new default.
Users who want the per-transaction notice can still turn it on per
budget, or as their default for new budgets, in Settings →
Notifications.
## QA
Ran the migration against a real database and checked the end state:
`budget_notify_on_new_transaction` default `0` with all 151 settings
rows and 333 budgets reset, both limit flags default `1` and left on.
Then drove real transactions through the listener and queue on a live
budget (limit €300) and read the resulting mail off Mailhog:
| Event | Spent / limit | Email |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New transaction, default settings | €50 / €300 | none |
| Reaches 90% | €270 / €300 | «Presupuesto de Ocio» está cerca de su
límite |
| Exceeds the limit | €320 / €300 | «Presupuesto de Ocio» ha superado su
límite |
| New transaction, after opting in | €10 / €5000 | Nueva transacción en
«Presupuesto de Ocio» |
Assignment still happens in every case — only the email is suppressed.
265 tests green across the Budget/Setting/Notification suites, including
new assertions that the rendered defaults have the per-transaction flag
off and that a settings row created without the budget columns does not
opt the user in.
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