Over the last few days, I've been working hard to improve our recurring
billing support in Satchmo.  I've just committed the result of that work to
the trunk.
It is all good news.  No backward-incompatible changes other than the minor
ones I introduced last week.

The best news is that we now have two payment processors which understand
"native" recurring billing.  That means if your customer pays for a
subscription product with Paypal or (new) Authorize.net, they will get
automatically billed on the basis you set up.

This is pretty huge, I think.  I'd love to get feedback from people using
the system, so that I can extend it even more.  For now, the areas which
need improvement are:

- Cancel subscriptions from Satchmo.  Preferably both via Admin and Customer
interfaces.  This is easy to do in Authorize.net, I just haven't done it
yet.
- See status of subscriptions - for the user.
- Update subscription status queries - could be automated for both
processors, I believe.
- Some interface in Admin to show subscriptions in a report.  Of course, we
need more reporting in general.

I'd also like to figure out a way to make split payments easier to do for
product variations.  That way you could charge 50% now, and 50% in thirty
days for entire product/product-variation sets.  You know, the way they do
it on TV ads.  It would be a slick addition to Satchmo.

These changes were sponsored by Juice Analytics (http://juiceanalytics.com).
 Thank you, Juice.

-- 
Bruce Kroeze
http://gosatchmo.com

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