Another reason to hate sales people!

Re: Another reason to hate sales people!

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Don't think that would work...It would give the three months credit
sequentially, and we need it once a year...

Mike

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> From: isp-list@optigold.com [mailto:isp-list@optigold.com]On Behalf Of
> Tony Morella
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 2:10 PM
> To: Optigold ISP List
> Subject: RE: [Optigold ISP] Another reason to hate sales people!
>
>
> I don't know the software well enough yet, but can't you
> create the customer
> and then just credit the account for the value of three
> months. So when the
> invoice is created it will be paid by the credit? Also can you put a
> negative amount in the setup field so this creates a credit?
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: isp-list@optigold.com [mailto:isp-list@optigold.com]On Behalf Of
> Shawn Hogan
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 9:02 PM
> To: Optigold ISP List
> Subject: Re: [Optigold ISP] Another reason to hate sales people!
>
>
> Michael J. Colvin wrote:
>
> > Ok...Here's another reason I generally hate sales people...
> >
> > Our sales/marketing guy put out an ad pushing for a 3 year
> commitment
> > (Contract) on monthly accounts. With the 3 year agreement, the user
> > gets three months free. The kicker is, the three months
> are the first
> > month of each year...
> >
> > Any ideas how the hell I'm supposed to set up a product for
> something
> > like this?
> >
> > Why can't they (Sales people) just keep it simple? Every
> time I think
> > I've figured out a way to do any billing cycle item they
> want, they come
> > up with a new one...
> >
> > This is why I have a picture on the wall behind my desk.
> It's an old
> > picture of a kid standing in front of an old style ranch
> house with a
> > shotgun. The caption says: "Pop told me to shoot every
> third salesman.
> > The second one just left."
> >
> > Anyway, anyone got any suggestions on setting up a product
> like this?
>
> Hmmmm... not that I can think of (automatically at least).
> You run into all
> sort of nastiness... A few things I can think of off the top
> of my head:
>
> Maybe an existing customer that had a different service for a
> year, so you
> don't want to base it on their establish date, because they
> might have had
> other services prior to their contract.
>
> You could (in theory) base it on the paid invoices, but then
> you get into a
> painfully slow and complex query. Not only would you have to
> query items
> that are related (and therefore not indexable), but you would
> be querying a
> few relationships deep, querying line items, which are
> related to invoices,
> and then the invoices are in turn related to the customers.
>
> Also, how do you factor in if the customer was paying for
> that same service
> before the contract, then decided to enter into the contract?
> Basing it
> strictly on the invoices that they have paid for would not
> work either.
>
> - Shawn
>
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