Search Again: Re: Setting up an "unpaid" account with access From: Shawn Hogan Date: Monday, October 5, 1998 Time: 2:46:42 pm Lance Julander wrote: >I've downloaded and am testing Optigold. It seems to be >unbelievably awesome! Right now we're using a Paradox database >we designed. It works good, but we need something better. > >We hook a lot of people up over the phone. We don't charge them >immediately, but set their account up and give them 2 weeks to >send in their money. If they haven't paid in 2 weeks they can't login. > >If somebody was getting hooked up right now we would set their >account up with an expiration date of today. Our paradox >database already is set to give everybody a 2 week grace period, >after which it won't include them in the radius file that's >generated every day. Even though the new person is expired, the >grace period amounts to the 2 weeks they have to send in the >money. When they finally pay we simply extend their expiration >date by one month from the day they originally signed up). > >I need to be able to do something similar in Optigold. From >reading the docs, it sounds like we shouldn't directly mess >around with the expiration dates. How do we do something similar >to our current setup? > >I thought perhaps we could make them a "pending" account, but I >don't think they would get dumped to the radius file if they are >still "pending". > >Should we create a "temp" type account for $0.0 that expires >immediately and then set up 2 week grace period and then switch >their service type to the standard PPP when they pay? I think you may be making it more difficult than it is... :-) All you really need to do is go to the Accounts Preferences and set the "Place Customers On Hold After xx Days" preference for that account type to 14. Then it will place them on hold if they haven't paid in 14 days. {shrug} I think that may be the easiest way that I can think of... - Shawn ------------------------------- Shawn D. Hogan President, Data Point Solutions http://www.data-point.com (619) 452-3696 ICQ: 8319647

Messages In This Thread: Setting up an "unpaid" account with access by Lance Julander on Oct 5, 1998 at 2:38:02 pm Re: Setting up an "unpaid" account with access by Shawn Hogan on Oct 5, 1998 at 2:46:42 pm Re: Setting up an "unpaid" account with access by Lance Julander on Oct 6, 1998 at 9:40:11 am Re: Setting up an "unpaid" account with access by Shawn Hogan on Oct 6, 1998 at 10:27:09 am Re: Setting up an "unpaid" account with access by Lance Julander on Oct 6, 1998 at 11:58:45 am Re: Setting up an "unpaid" account with access by Shawn Hogan on Oct 6, 1998 at 12:19:37 pm