[freeside] First Month Charges

[ivan]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:52:04AM -0500, Luke Pfeifer wrote:
> Hi Everyone:
> 
>  Here is what I added to the script to make this option work.  I am not 
> sure on my "wording" of it for the description but it works just as I 
> planned.  The first month is charged the recurring fee and not prorated 
> and then the next bill date will be the 1st of the next month.

Thanks, applied.

I changed the plan name to "subscription" and changed the description for
this and the prorate plan to make it (hopefully) more understandable.

>  I added this code starting at line 200.  Please feel free to add this 
> to an upcoming release and let me know what you think of it..It seemed 
> pretty easy to hack up.

That's the idea.  Hopefully we'll see more contributed price plans in the
future... 

> 
> Hope this helps you all!!
> 
> Luke
> 
> ----CODE STARTS BELOW THIS LINE-----
> 
>   'flat_non_prorate' => {
>     'name' => 'First month full charge, then flat-rate billing from 1st 
> of month',
>     'fields' =>  {
>       'setup_fee' => { 'name' => 'Setup fee for this package',
>                        'default' => 0,
>                      },
>       'recur_fee' => { 'name' => 'Recurring fee for this package',
>                        'default' => 0,
>                       },
>     },
>     'fieldorder' => [ 'setup_fee', 'recur_fee' ],
>     'setup' => 'what.setup_fee.value',
>     'recur' => '\'my $mnow = $sdate; my 
> ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = (localtime($sdate) )[0,1,2,3,4,5]; 
> my $mstart = timelocal(0,0,0,1,$mon,$year); $sdate = $mstart; \' + 
> what.recur_fee.value ',
>  },
> 
> ----CODE ENDS ABOVE THIS LINE ------
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 12:04:04AM -0500, freeside at globalli.com wrote:
> > > I just installed 1.4.0pre11 on my server and I was wondering it was
> > > possible to have it charge full months price for the first month 
> and then
> > > flat rate from the 1st of the month after that.
> > > 
> > > Hopefully that is not confusing, but I will try to work it this 
> way.  We
> > > want a customer to be charged the full amount no matter what time 
> of the
> > > month they sign up and then their next month is due on the 1st of 
> the next
> > > month.  Therefore if we charged $100 a month and they signed up on 
> the
> > > 15th of March they would be billed $100 for March 15 - March 31 and 
> then
> > > their next bill would be for $100 from April 1 - April 30.
> > > 
> > > Let me know if this is possible, or what script I should hack up to 
> make
> > > these changes to allow this to happen.
> > 
> > You'd need to add a new price plan to httemplate/edit/part_pkg.cgi
> > 
> > I sugest starting with the "prorate" plan as a skeleton (it already 
> does
> > the date manipulation you're looking for); it would need to be 
> adjusted to
> > charge full price for the first month.
> > 
> > Good luck!  Please consider contributing your changes back to the
> > project.
> > 
> > -- 
> > _ivan
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Luke Pfeifer

-- 
_ivan