---
title: "Periodic resets — Credits for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Set a bucket to an exact balance at most once per day, week, month, year or custom period — and schedule credits:reset without double resets."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/credits-for-laravel/periodic-resets
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---

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# Periodic resets

A periodic reset sets chosen buckets to an exact balance once per period — monthly free credits, a daily allowance. It is idempotent per owner, bucket and period, so a double-scheduled run, two servers or a retried job never reset twice. Resets need the credit\_resets table (see Installation) and no switch:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Credits\Enums\ResetPeriod;
use RoundlyConsulting\Credits\Facades\Credits;

$result = Credits::for($user)->bucket('free')->reset(ResetPeriod::Monthly, to: 100);

$result->reset;    // true — false when this bucket was already reset this period
$result->period;   // '2026-11'
$result->credit;   // the delta row, or null (already reset, or the balance already matched)

Credits::reset($user, 'billing-cycle-7', to: 500, bucket: 'pro');     // an explicit period key
$user->resetCredits(ResetPeriod::Daily, to: 10, bucket: 'daily_allowance');
```

- Idempotent per period: one credit\_resets row per owner, bucket and period key, written in the reset’s transaction under the owner lock. A second reset in the same period writes nothing and returns reset: false.
- Period keys are read from now, in the app timezone: Daily → 2026-11-09, Weekly → 2026-W46 (ISO week-year), Monthly → 2026-11, Yearly → 2026. Or pass your own key (1–64 characters, trimmed) for billing cycles that do not follow the calendar.
- The reset is a setTo($to): one delta row (meta \['reset\_period' => key\] unless you pass meta), CreditsModified, and the same guard — lowering a bucket below its held credits is refused unless an overdraft is allowed. A refused reset leaves no marker, so the next run retries it.
- Also Credits::reset($owner, $period, to:, bucket:, description:, meta:, allowOverdraft:) and $user->resetCredits($period, to:, …, bucket:).

## Scheduling — credits:reset

```
credits:reset {bucket*}
    {--period=monthly : daily, weekly, monthly or yearly}
    {--key= : an explicit period key instead of --period}
    {--to=0 : the balance to reset to}
    {--timezone= : the timezone the period is read in (default app.timezone)}
    {--description= : description for the delta rows}
    {--allow-overdraft : reset even when held credits would breach the minimum}
    {--resolvers : reset the owners the credits.modifiable resolvers yield}
```

| Argument / option | Default | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `bucket*` | — | One or more buckets to reset. |
| `--period` | monthly | daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. |
| `--key` | — | An explicit period key instead of --period (e.g. 2026-11). |
| `--to` | 0 | The balance to reset each bucket to; must be an integer. |
| `--timezone` | app.timezone | The timezone the period is read in. |
| `--description` | null | Description for the delta rows. |
| `--allow-overdraft` | false | Reset even when held credits would take the available balance below the minimum. |
| `--resolvers` | false | Reset the owners the credits.modifiable resolvers yield instead of every owner with rows in the bucket. |

By default it resets every owner that has ledger rows in each bucket — owners are loaded through their morph type, and a row whose owner is gone is reported and skipped. Use --resolvers to reset the owners your credits.modifiable closures yield instead, which you need for owners that have never had credits. The period key is read once per run, so a run that straddles midnight resets everyone into the same period:

```php
// routes/console.php — free credits back to 100 on the 1st, in the business's timezone
Schedule::command('credits:reset free --period=monthly --to=100 --timezone=Europe/Bratislava')
    ->monthlyOn(1, '00:05')
    ->timezone('Europe/Bratislava');

// daily allowance, topping up every user (resolvers in credits.modifiable)
Schedule::command('credits:reset daily_allowance --period=daily --to=10 --resolvers')->dailyAt('00:01');
```

Running the same command twice in one period resets nothing the second time. It prints how many owners it reset and how many were already reset in the period; an owner the guard refuses is reported, the run carries on and the command exits 1. Bad options — --period=hourly, a non-integer --to, an oversized --key, an unknown --timezone — fail before anything is written.

## The credit\_resets table

| Column | Type | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `creditable_type / creditable_id` | morph pair, id per key\_type | |
| `bucket` | string | |
| `period` | string(64) | The period key. |
| `reset_to` | bigInteger | |
| `credit_id` | per primary\_key\_type, nullable | The delta row, when one was written. |
| `created_at` | timestamp | |

Primary key (creditable\_type, creditable\_id, bucket, period) — the idempotency guarantee. It is never read for a balance.

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