[freeside] 1.4.0pre3 doc error, signup coupons, & credit card ideas

[ivan]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:00:23AM -0500, Jeff Foster wrote:
> 
> 1.4.0pre3 doc error - 
> 
> In the upgrade8.html doc there are 2 errors in the PostgreSQL
> section for database changes after doing the migrate -

Thanks for catching this!  I've fixed it.

> Signup coupons -
> 
> When I run the signup screen using the coupon payment method and
> I don't have any coupons created; I get the 'Thanks for signing up'
> message even though the backend has finished with an error. I think
> this should display a message telling the user that the coupon is
> invalid. 
> I haven't tested this with an invalid coupon number to see what happens.

By "coupons" I assume you mean prepaid cards.  Hmm.  I'll take a look;
haven't used the prepaid card functionality in a while.

> Credit card ideas -
> 
> I would like to see the system support automatically charging users
> credit cards when the user's time runs out.

Currently the software runs on monthly billing cycles; you can bill a
customer every month or every N months, and you can caclulate the amount
to bill them at that time to implement metered billing.

There aren't currently hooks to trigger billing when an event occurs
("time runs out"). 

> I understand that storing
> customer credit card information is a BAD thing. To get around this
> problem I am suggesting that this data should be store using encrypted 
> values. Then the admin could run a script that would prompt for the
> encryption passkey and then process the credit card transactions.
> 
> I would like to see the system support an automatic check draft system
> using the same idea for data encryption. 

Interesting ideas.  Got patch?

-- 
_ivan