June 2025 summary for DEFRA/epr-payment-service focused on delivering core payment data model enhancement and maintainability improvements. Implemented OnlinePayment: Add RequestorType field with associated database migrations, enabling more granular requester handling, improved reporting, and future expansion of payment scenarios. The effort included targeted refactoring and cleanup to reduce duplication and consolidate settings, improving maintainability and reducing technical debt. The change was delivered with clear traceability and aligns with project goals to enhance scalability and analytics.

May 2025 summary focused on delivering automated billing and improved offline payment capabilities, with a decisive refactor to data access and seed data to support reprocessor fees. This period emphasizes concrete, business-value outcomes through API delivery, architectural improvements, and clear cross-repo progress.

Deliveries in 2025-04 focused on improving data access architecture and billing workflow visibility in DEFRA/epr-calculator-api. Key outcomes: centralized EF Core entity type configurations in ApplicationDBContext, and introduction of a billing file generation tracking flag. These changes reduce maintenance cost, improve adherence to EF Core best practices, and enable reliable monitoring of billing file generation.