Using osCommerce to sell a service...

[MonkeyJack]

Has anyone used osCommerce to sell a service instead of a product?

 

We would like to be able to sell monthly and quarterly subscriptions to a service that we offer. When customers purchase the service, we need to have osCommerce flag the account as a valid / paid user with an expiration date.

 

We could validate users entering the service using the returning-customer information from osCommerce (email address and password that they provided when they paid) and then check to make sure the customer account is flagged as valid / paid. Essentially, our service application would be using the osCommerce database to validate users.

 

Thoughts?

[ocularmagic]

I think it could be done. You could add a field to the customers table called valid and sub_date and when they paid, have it mark the date and set the field to valid. Then set a check somewhere that would check the date and as soon as they're subscription expire, uncheck the valid field. Something along those lines I would imagine. Sounds doable to me anyway.