Setup

[Ivan Kohler]

On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 08:27:28PM -0700, Desk of the Technical Director wrote:
> what is the function if the "setup" field in the view package cgi.

The setup date - if it is blank, it is set to the current date when you
bill that customer, and the setup fee is charged.  So for imported data
I'd set it to some reasonable date (if you can't get the actual setup
date).

> I managed to import the next bill date from my legacy billing system, but
> I have not yet dug thru the source to find out if the blank setup will
> cause any problems (like never billing because the account is not
> "setup").

If you leave it blank you'll charge all your imported customers a setup
fee when you bill them.

> Also, I haven't finished my billing modifications yet (to send via
> e-mail), so I haven't run bill, but when I run bill, will it fill the
> setup field.  I am playing with the REAL data and want to make sure I have
> it right before I make the first run of billing and exporting.

Even with real data, I highly recommend you do a test run first.

> One last thing, do I need to write a script to diff the export and the
> actual shadow/passwd files and add directories, or .....

No, see http://www.sisd.com/freeside/docs/export.html

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