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It is super easy to switch them from a non-billing account to a billed
account. I have resellers that get xxx amount of time, and then if they
don't perform we switch them to a regular paying account.

Super Easy!!

At 01:58 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Shawn Hogan wrote:
>Alexi wrote:
>
>>I just thought of this after seeing your answer to my last question. Is it
>>possible for us to create an account type that does not have an expiration
>>date? I know under the current situation it is not possible, but is
>>possible for you to make it so? I know you can change the account type to
>>not receive invoices, be billed, get past due notices sent (all in the
>>account preferences). I'm figuring that once you created an account of
>>this type, it may be difficult or impossible to change it over to one that
>>has a billing cycle item, but it is still better than us having to manually
>>change expiration dates to 2050 on accounts that do one-time or irregular
>>purchases (such as for hardware or consulting services). If one of those
>>customers decides they want to switch or add billing cycle service (say
>>such as access), someone may forget to change their expiration date and
>>they get free service till 2050! C'mon Shawn, I know you can do it...:)
>
>Nope... if there was a simple flag that could be toggled on/off, it would
>not only require a complete redesign of the software core, but it would
>also be prone to people accidentally clicking it on and then wonder why
>some of their customers get free service.
>
>So, it's not going to happen.
>
>If you want to give poeple free service, you are going to have to set
>their expiration date way in the future to something like the year 3000
>or something.
>
> - Shawn
>
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