Re: selling tokens for services

2010-09-16 Thread chris snow
Hi Ruth, I'm trying to work out the cleanest way of implementing my requirements with minimal changes to the existing code base. My current thought is that I will create an ECA that will recognize when TOKEN products have been purchased and then update a PARTY_TOKEN table. The PARTY_TOKEN table

Re: selling tokens for services

2010-09-16 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Chris: Your solution sounds very plausible. Are the tokens unique across all products? Like a license key? If so, you might want to think about using serialized inventory to hold them. And then the inventory logic can keep track of when one is sold and which product it is associated with.

selling tokens for services

2010-09-14 Thread chris snow
I would like to be able to sell tokens for services using ofbiz. A customer will buy a token (e.g. for £30). The token will allow unlimited access to a single resource (e.g. downloading a particular document/book) as many times as the customer requires. Therefore, the token is tied to a

Re: selling tokens for services

2010-09-14 Thread David E Jones
Sounds like what the Subscription and related entities are desired for... -David On Sep 14, 2010, at 12:25 AM, chris snow wrote: I would like to be able to sell tokens for services using ofbiz. A customer will buy a token (e.g. for £30). The token will allow unlimited access to a

Re: selling tokens for services

2010-09-14 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Chris: That is what I do on the MyOFBiz.com site. Here is an excerpt from my seed data: DataResource dataResourceId=PUB-RSS0710 dataResourceTypeId=OFBIZ_FILE_BIN dataResourceName=OFBizRSS5StepGuide.pdf mimeTypeId=application/pdf

Re: selling tokens for services

2010-09-14 Thread chris snow
Thanks Ruth and David, I've had some more clarification. The service being sold will be similar to the concept of online Will production. Here are some example scenarios: Customers will enter their personal details to go into the Will. When they want a pdf of the Will they will have to pay

Re: selling tokens for services

2010-09-14 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Chris: That doesn't sound like anything I've seen out of the box. Maybe David has some more insight. I can think of a few ways you might want to implement this, but if something already exists, I'd be interested in hearing about it. Regards, Ruth On 9/14/10 2:51 PM, chris snow wrote: