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Alexi Touloumis wrote:
Re: Questions...
From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998
Time: 1:23:35 pm
>Not possible or not probable or just stop asking now?
A little of each... :-) It's POSSIBLE, but it would be very difficult
because you are throwing in a 4th table that it has to compile data from,
and that 4th table would have to correspond to the 2nd table, but not the
1st or 3rd. So it COULD be done, but it would make the statement
generation painfully slow (it's already slow enough since it has to
compile data from 3 tables).
>But we're not utility companies...we sell many different products. For
>example, besides the annual InterNIC registration, there are annual
>maintenance packages, quarterly updates, annual license fees (verisign,
>etc.), weekly/monthly/quarterly fax services, etc. etc. Tomorrow's ISP is
>going to be providing all of these and then some if they expect to stay in
>the game...but we have to be able to bill these effectively. ;)
Some would consider internet service a utility. :-) My ISP at home is a
cable modem, which is part of my cable service, which is a utility. :-)
Anyway... that's not the point. {grin}
I'll tell you WHY it doesn't work that way... One of the big reasons is
that you would then be forced to generate a seperate invoice for each and
every line item on a billing cycle (even if it DID fall in the same time
frame), so a customer that had 10 domains or something on their line
items would get 10 different invoices, even if they were on the same
cycle... Because you would force the invoice generation to happen on a
per line item basis instead of a per customer. Less importantly, it
would require you to track expiration date on a per billing cycle item...
which in itself is fine... but I sure don't want to be the one to tell
every ISP using Optigold ISP that they are now going to have to go
through each and every existing customers billing cycle so they can set
the expiration date for it. But that's minor compared to the first issue.
>Okay, so it hasn't changed and I'm assuming won't in the future.
Correct... trust me, if something like that changes, I'll let you know.
hehe
>You would think, wouldn't you? You oughta know me better by now though! ;)
>(j/k)
I'll just make you have read-only access to the list one of these days.
hehe
- Shawn
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