OFBiz does have some support for subscriptions, but I am not the one to tell you how much of what is required is supported out of the box.
What I am curious about, though, is the problem of ensuring PCI compliance with a recurrent billing, or rebilling, business model. Ensuring the safety of customer payment information is not a trivial task (basically, if you do it yourself, you have to establish a vault that can not be accessed by any machine other than the machine that runs the program that determines what accounts need to be rebilled and when - that means that I would see a segmented LAN, with three sets of non-routable IP address: 1 for the machines running OFBiz and it's database, a second for the vault, and which ignores all traffic coming from the first, or from the internet, and a third which includes the machine running the rebill engine that reads the relevant rebill data from OFBiz's database, and payment information from the vault, and then submits the payment to the payment processor). I would ask you to what extent are you, or have you, deployed anything like a vault for customer payment information, or are you going to go that route? You could seek out payment gateway's that will tokenize your customer's payment information, so you can use their gateway to support rebilling, but that comes with a non-trivial cost. But for many, that is a viable option. And, there are third party vault service providers. And I would ask the OFBiz gurus to what extent is commercial subscription supported out of the box, or would I be correct that all of this pretty much must be developed de novo? Cheers Ted On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:03 PM, anon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I have a small application in grails that I would like to port to ofbiz to > take advantages of things like billing, payment and other things. But before > I set out to do it, I was wondering if there was an example in ofbiz of an > application where users can subscribe to different plans like "basic", > "professional", "enterprise" with recurring billing, so I can see whether > the switch is worth it. > Thanks for your help. -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. [email protected]
