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

[Jeff Foster]

From: ivan [mailto:ivan at 420.am]
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:19 PM

> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:00:23AM -0500, Jeff Foster wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Yes I do mean prepaid cards and thanks.


> > 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"). 

How would you recommend doing this? Crons & perl or something more elegant?

> > 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'm looking for some guidance here, what encryption scheme would be best?
Please limit your answers to a scheme that is available in perl, because
I don't want to impliment the encryption system, just use it. A search 
of cpan.org yields a pretty good list.

> > 
> > I would like to see the system support an automatic check draft system
> > using the same idea for data encryption. 

I have done some work on check draft writing. What is the prefered
output, PCL or postscript?  


> Interesting ideas.  Got patch?

Still looking for clues!

Jeff Foster
jfoste at woodward.com

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