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Scenario: You have a customer with a 500mb email account, and they would like to upgrade to the 1000mb email account
 
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Freeside does not yet support add-on packages that launch external commands, so the best solution presently is to upgrade a user from a 500mb service to a 1000mb service by calling an appropriate "modify" command for the export associated with the package.
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== Resellers ==
 
== Resellers ==

Revision as of 13:38, 13 September 2006

Provisioning

Services

Packages

Upselling

Scenario: You have a customer with a 500mb email account, and they would like to upgrade to the 1000mb email account

Solution:

(authoring in progress) Freeside does not yet support add-on packages that launch external commands, so the best solution presently is to upgrade a user from a 500mb service to a 1000mb service by calling an appropriate "modify" command for the export associated with the package. (/authoring in progress)

Resellers

Employees

Billing

Real-time Processing

Configuration

  1. Install a real-time processing module, such as Business::OnlinePayment::TCLink, or Business::OnlinePayment::Exact
root# cpan Business::OnlinePayment::TCLink
  1. Remove the Batch Card processing event, and add a Real-Time Card processing event
    • Configuration -> Billing -> View/Edit Invoice Events
    • Click on "Batch card"
      • Check off "Disabled"
      • Click "Apply changes"
    • Click on "Add a new invoice event"
      • Name it something like "Realtime card"
      • Choose the radio button "Run card with a Business::OnlinePayment realtime gateway"
      • Click on "Add invoice event"
  2. Enable your payment gateway
    • Configuration -> Settings
    • Click "Edit Configuration"
    • Click the "Billing" tab
      • For the 'business-onlinepayment' field, enter the Business::OnlinePayment module you are using, followed by your account ID, password, and (optionally), type of action
TCLink
someuser
password
Normal Authorization
        • Some payment gateways such as LinkPoint don't use a username/password, and require additional parameters. These can be passed in as key<newline>value pairs
LinkPoint
              <-- intentionally left blank 
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Normal Authorization
storename     <-- key
123456        <-- value
keyfile       <-- key
123456.pem    <-- value
lbin          <-- key
/usr/bin.lbin <-- value
tmp
/tmp/secure
      • Click "Apply Changes"

References

  1. http://search.cpan.org/src/WITTEN/Business-OnlinePayment-TCLink-1.03/README.freeside
  2. http://www.sisd.com/freeside/list-archive/msg03193.html
  3. http://wavetail.420.am:81/freeside/docs/billing.html

Testing Real-Time Processing

One Time Transactions

  • Choose a customer account
  • Click on 'Process credit card payment'
  • Enter a payment ammount, and credit card details
  • Click 'Process payment'
  • The transaction should happen immediately
  • Click on 'View this customer'
  • At the bottom of the screen, "Payment History" should include this transaction

Recurring Transactions

  • Choose a customer account
  • Click on 'Bill now', or run the freeside-daily cronjob from the command line as the freeside user
  • At the bottom of the screen, "Payment History" should include this transaction

Misc