diff --git a/crates/db/migrations/20260317000005_create_payments_and_pricing.down.sql b/crates/db/migrations/20260317000005_create_payments_and_pricing.down.sql
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+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS payments;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS pricing_packages;
diff --git a/crates/db/migrations/20260317000005_create_payments_and_pricing.up.sql b/crates/db/migrations/20260317000005_create_payments_and_pricing.up.sql
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+-- pricing_packages and payments back the whole Tracecoin/job-slot purchase
+-- flow (apps/payments, apps/users/src/handlers/pricing.rs). Like
+-- verifications, neither was ever created by any active migration — only
+-- documented in scripts/init-db.sql, which is never actually executed (see
+-- 20260718200000_create_verifications_and_approvals for the full
+-- explanation). This is the earliest point in the chain that needed
+-- `payments` to exist: 20260317202300_coupons_discounts.up.sql (already
+-- deployed) references payments(id) via FK a few hours after this file's
+-- timestamp.
+--
+-- Schema matches apps/payments/src/main.rs's actual usage — payu_txnid/
+-- payu_mihpayid directly (the PayU column names), not razorpay_order_id/
+-- razorpay_payment_id like init-db.sql has; those were renamed by
+-- 20260626000000_payu_rename_columns, which only runs correctly against a
+-- table that has the *old* Razorpay names to rename FROM. Since this table
+-- never existed for that migration to act on, starting directly with the
+-- final PayU names is correct and makes that rename migration a no-op here
+-- (guarded by information_schema existence checks, so that's safe).
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS pricing_packages (
+    id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
+    name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
+    role_key VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
+    package_type VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
+    tracecoins_amount INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+    price_inr INTEGER NOT NULL,
+    description TEXT,
+    is_active BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT true,
+    created_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
+);
+
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS payments (
+    id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
+    user_id UUID NOT NULL REFERENCES users(id),
+    package_id UUID REFERENCES pricing_packages(id),
+    payu_txnid VARCHAR(100),
+    payu_mihpayid VARCHAR(100),
+    amount_inr INTEGER NOT NULL,
+    tracecoins_credited INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+    status VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'PENDING',
+    verified_at TIMESTAMPTZ,
+    created_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
+);
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_payments_user_id ON payments(user_id);
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_payments_payu_txnid ON payments(payu_txnid);
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_payments_payu_mihpayid ON payments(payu_mihpayid);