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Product Decisions This Supports

• Build vs. buy for money and currency primitives. The Roundly family (money, crypto, enums, package-toolkit) covers the unglamorous core of any pricing, billing, or wallet feature: precise decimal arithmetic, currency handling, enum-backed domain constants, and shared package conventions. Adopting it is a decision to not hand-roll value objects and rounding rules — usually the right call, since money bugs are expensive and rarely surface in normal QA.
• Roadmap sequencing for multi-currency / crypto surface area. Because the package depends on discrete money, crypto, and enums modules, the dependency graph is a proxy for capability. Product can scope "add EUR pricing" or "support USDC balances" against modules that already exist rather than greenfield work.
• Risk posture on precision-critical features. Release 1.1.2 is maintenance-only: it raises the minimum versions of the sibling packages (crypto ^1.1.2, enums ^1.1.0, money ^1.0.1, package-toolkit ^1.3.0) and dev testing ^1.2.1. No new features, no deprecations, no breaking API changes. That means no user-facing capability changes and no roadmap replanning — the decision it informs is purely "when do we take the dependency bump."
• Upgrade cadence and technical-debt budgeting. The constraint floors signal the maintainer expects the suite to move together. Product should treat Roundly upgrades as a single coordinated unit rather than per-package drift; each bump is a small, scheduled maintenance slot, not a project.

When to Consider This Package

Consider adoption when:

• You handle money, currency, or crypto amounts anywhere in the domain and want correct rounding, decimal precision, and type safety instead of floats and ad-hoc helpers.
• You want enum-backed domain constants shared across the codebase rather than string literals and magic values.
• Your team values a small, composable, single-purpose package suite over a monolithic framework — you can take money without taking crypto.
• You're already inside the Roundly ecosystem (or standardising on its package-toolkit conventions for service providers, config, and testing).
• You can absorb coupled upgrade windows: this release demonstrates the packages are versioned in lockstep, so a bump is a suite-level chore.

Look elsewhere when:

• You need an end-to-end payments/billing solution (gateways, subscriptions, invoicing, reconciliation). This is primitives, not a payment platform.
• You're single-currency with no precision concerns — native integers-in-minor-units plus careful code may be sufficient and cheaper to own.
• Your org cannot take coordinated dependency bumps or requires long-term frozen dependencies; the lockstep version floors will fight your policy.
• You need regulatory/compliance certification (PCI, tax engines, FX rate sourcing). Nothing here implies that coverage.
• The package's documentation and test coverage are unproven for your use case — worth validating before committing; the release notes here give no signal on either.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

To executives: This is foundational plumbing for anything involving prices, balances, or currencies. It replaces custom money-handling code — the kind that produces penny-off discrepancies, refund errors, and audit findings — with a small, maintained library. Release 1.1.2 is a routine maintenance update that keeps it aligned with its companion packages; it carries no new features and no breaking changes, so there's no customer impact and no delivery risk. The strategic value is reduced build cost and reduced financial-correctness risk on billing and wallet roadmap items.

To engineering: Low-risk adoption of small, single-responsibility packages with a shared toolkit for conventions and testing. Note the version floors — crypto ^1.1.2, enums ^1.1.0, money ^1.0.1, package-toolkit ^1.3.0 — which mean upgrades should be done as one coordinated change, not piecemeal. 1.1.2 is dependency-only, so regression scope is limited to install-time resolution and serialization/rounding behaviour at the boundaries; a normal test pass plus a spot-check on money formatting and currency conversion paths is sufficient. No migration guide required.