Fix booking defaults, dashboard alerts, admin edit flow, and ended-event payments.

Require an explicit payment method on booking, hide stale release banners for past or inactive events, open event editing in place on the detail page, and auto-reject unconfirmed payments after events end without sending email.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

frontend/src/app/(public)/dashboard/components/OverviewTab.tsx

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import {
   isUnpaid,
   isAwaitingApproval,
   isOnHold,
+  isActionableAttention,
   ticketAmount,
   shareTicket,
   isToday,
@@ -58,7 +59,9 @@ export default function OverviewTab({
   // awaiting approval), ordered by soonest event.
   const attentionTicket = useMemo(() => {
     const candidates = activeTickets.filter(
-      (t) => isUnpaid(t) || isOnHold(t) || isAwaitingApproval(t)
+      (t) =>
+        isActionableAttention(t) &&
+        (isUnpaid(t) || isOnHold(t) || isAwaitingApproval(t))
     );
     const priority = (t: UserTicket) => (isUnpaid(t) ? 0 : isOnHold(t) ? 1 : 2);
     candidates.sort((a, b) => {

frontend/src/app/(public)/dashboard/components/_shared/helpers.ts

@@ -35,6 +35,22 @@ export function isAwaitingApproval(ticket: { payment?: { status?: string } | nul
   return ticket.payment?.status === 'pending_approval';
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether an attention banner (e.g. "your spot was released", "payment pending")
+ * is still worth showing to the user. It only makes sense to nudge the user when
+ * the event still exists, is still bookable (published/unlisted), and has not
+ * already ended. This suppresses stale banners for deleted, unpublished,
+ * cancelled/completed/archived, or past events.
+ */
+export function isActionableAttention(ticket: UserTicket): boolean {
+  const event = ticket.event;
+  if (!event) return false;
+  if (event.status !== 'published' && event.status !== 'unlisted') return false;
+  const refDate = event.endDatetime || event.startDatetime;
+  if (!refDate) return false;
+  return parseDate(refDate).getTime() > Date.now();
+}
+
 /**
  * The moment the seat hold expires. null when paid/awaiting/cancelled or when
  * the data needed to compute it is missing.