Subscriptions

[jerpace]

Our company provides a paid subscription service. I've not taken a close look at the subscription support in OFBiz yet, but was wondering if anyone has implemented it and if so what your thoughts are about it.


Best Regards,

Jeremiah Christensen

[BJ Freeman]

if you mean a product subscription look at shopping list re-order
http://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org:8080/ecommerce/control/editShoppingList
if your taking about news letters a little work has to be done on 9.04
I believe they have added the rest since then on 10.4 or trunk.

Jeremiah Christensen sent the following on 8/3/2010 3:52 PM:
> Our company provides a paid subscription service. I've not taken a close look at the subscription support in OFBiz yet, but was wondering if anyone has implemented it and if so what your thoughts are about it.
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> Best Regards,
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> Jeremiah Christensen
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[Ruth Hoffman-2]

Hi Jeremiah:
I use the subscription portion of the data model to handle product
subscriptions for my OFBiz store and delivery website. Currently all my
products are sold as subscriptions - even though it may not be
intuitively obvious. This is how it works at a really hight level: When
I receive payment for a product I write a record for the user (partyId)
in the Subscription entity. This record has a foreign key to a record in
the SubscriptionResource entity that defines the product that is the
basis for the subscription.

When the buyer goes to the delivery web site
(http://www.myofbiz.com/mylibrary) I check to see what Subscriptions are
still current and what SubscriptionResource(s) they have and based on
that information, give them access to the appropriate product.

So, I guess the answer to your question is: It depends on what you want
to do. The data model has everything I need to implement my subscription
service. The user interface to set things up and support user
subscription renewals is lacking in 9.04 and previous releases.

Regards,
Ruth Hoffman

Jeremiah Christensen wrote:

> Our company provides a paid subscription service. I've not taken a close look at the subscription support in OFBiz yet, but was wondering if anyone has implemented it and if so what your thoughts are about it.
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>
> Best Regards,
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> Jeremiah Christensen
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[Ruth Hoffman-2]

FYI
The out-of-the-box mailing lists ("Contact Lists") as implemented in
9.04  don't use the subscription data model entities. The "subscribe" to
the NEWSLETTER that you see on the eCommerce landing page is and HTML
Form that calls an OFBiz  Service (or Event I can't remember) to add a
user to a Contact List.

Regards,
Ruth Hoffman

BJ Freeman wrote:

> if you mean a product subscription look at shopping list re-order
> http://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org:8080/ecommerce/control/editShoppingList 
>
> if your taking about news letters a little work has to be done on 9.04
> I believe they have added the rest since then on 10.4 or trunk.
>
> Jeremiah Christensen sent the following on 8/3/2010 3:52 PM:
>> Our company provides a paid subscription service. I've not taken a
>> close look at the subscription support in OFBiz yet, but was
>> wondering if anyone has implemented it and if so what your thoughts
>> are about it.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Jeremiah Christensen
>>
>>
>>
>