Selling maintenance contracts - recurring billing

[bbcompent1]

Hello all, I'm trying to figure out how to get OSCommerce to do monthly recurring billing for memberships. Can this be done? What do I need to do? My idea is to have three levels being bronze, gold and platinum support, each has a different pricing structure.

 

Bronze - N/C

Gold - 24.95/month per unit

Platinum - 39.95/month per unit

[Guest]

Dan,

 

I recently used this contribution to create a subscription site. It uses paypal as the payment type and you create a 'subscribe' button on your paypal account with each membership level you want. It may be what you need:

 

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/1658

 

 

 

Chris

[bbcompent1]

Dan,

 

I recently used this contribution to create a subscription site. It uses paypal as the payment type and you create a 'subscribe' button on your paypal account with each membership level you want. It may be what you need:

 

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/1658

 

 

 

Chris

I don't think that will work for this because we want to use one of the ones where the customer doesn't leave our site, they would have the transaction handled behind the scenes.

[Guest]

Dan,

 

I am sorry to say, I don't think there is a contribution like the one you are looking for.

 

 

 

Chris

[bbcompent1]

Hmm, anyone else have any thoughts on this? If it can't support this then I'll have to get another solution.

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

Dan, you could use osCommerce for the initial purchase of the contract, but the monthly billing needs to be done either with an application on your local machine, or if a customer chooses to allow recurring charges to his card most payment processors now provide a function for that, but it is not a part of osC. You could have osC display a recurring charge terms and acknowledgment (see the Terms & Conditions contrib for that), but again the actual billing happens at the cc processors control panel.

[bbcompent1]

Dan, you could use osCommerce for the initial purchase of the contract, but the monthly billing needs to be done either with an application on your local machine, or if a customer chooses to allow recurring charges to his card most payment processors now provide a function for that, but it is not a part of osC. You could have osC display a recurring charge terms and acknowledgment (see the Terms & Conditions contrib for that), but again the actual billing happens at the cc processors control panel.

 

Ok, so I can put some legal mumbo jumbo in stating that the customer must contact us to terminate the contract or the card will be billed again. I think that will work, at least for now. Thank you. Now, exactly where would I put this blurb of text? In the item description or somewhere else?

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

Ok, so I can put some legal mumbo jumbo in stating that the customer must contact us to terminate the contract or the card will be billed again. I think that will work, at least for now. Thank you. Now, exactly where would I put this blurb of text? In the item description or somewhere else?

There is a contribution for Accepting Terms and Conditions. Find that and alter the language to reflect recurring charges, etc. That's probably you're best bet.

 

Then, your credit card processor normally provides some sort of control panel for setting up recurring charges.

 

I've neveer don this but that is the avenue i would follow at first.

[bbcompent1]

There is a contribution for Accepting Terms and Conditions. Find that and alter the language to reflect recurring charges, etc. That's probably you're best bet.

 

Then, your credit card processor normally provides some sort of control panel for setting up recurring charges.

 

I've neveer don this but that is the avenue i would follow at first.

Ok, that is pretty cool. Is there a specific contribute module that you can specify whether a product has the T&C or not?

 

Now, is there a way to have OSCommerce use session variables from an ASP.NET application? I would actually like to make my one cart (member secured area) not require people to create accounts.

 

I was thinking let the web application I have handle security and then when they decide to purchase something from the member area, I'd like it to populate their name, address, etc since I already have that information stored in my DB in an address book. Then when they go to do their CC info for say air filters, their stuff would already be there and then they just run their credit card...

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

Ok, that is pretty cool. Is there a specific contribute module that you can specify whether a product has the T&C or not?

 

Now, is there a way to have OSCommerce use session variables from an ASP.NET application? I would actually like to make my one cart (member secured area) not require people to create accounts.

 

I was thinking let the web application I have handle security and then when they decide to purchase something from the member area, I'd like it to populate their name, address, etc since I already have that information stored in my DB in an address book. Then when they go to do their CC info for say air filters, their stuff would already be there and then they just run their credit card...

As far as I know the T&C add-on is for the store, not per product.

 

There is also a contribution to purchase without an account. It wouldn't be too difficult to pass the session vars to osC, but not having done any recent coding in asp I couldn't begin to point you in any direction. But getting your osC to read your web applications db is going to be a job. If I were doing this from the start I would use the osC log in and db as your web applications address book.

 

Doing it now....I would write your web application to also write to the osC db customers table simultaneous with your web application registration process, but that is duplicating data and presents even other problems with deletions, changes, etc.