Re: Prepaid monthly subscription order fulfillment question
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = It seems to me that you would have two field values to use.the Date that the subscription was made: "SUB_DATE"andthe Subscription term: "SUB_TERM"Maybe one more field to show the last date sent: "LAST_SENT" From those two values I think a fulfillment sendmail tpl couldcalculate the dates that the email gets sent out.. maybe hitby a trigger every so often.something like (abridged):[text]sub_date=[lookup returnfield=SUB_DATE][/text][text]sub_months=[lookup returnfield=SUB_TERM][/text][text]last_sent=[lookup returnfield=LAST_SENT][/text][text]dates=[!] [/!][loop start=1&end=[sub_months]][!] [/!][math date]{[sub_date]}+{0[index]/00/0000}[/math],[!] [/!][/loop][!][/!][/text][showif ,[listwords words=[dates]&delimiters=,][url][word][/url][delimiter][/listwords]^[url][date][/url]] [hideif [url][last_sent][/url]=[url][date][/url]][sendmail ...][/sendmail] [replace db=blay&eqIDdatarq=ID]last_sent=[date][/replace] [committdatabase db=] [/hideif][/showif]....would be one way to do it ;-)DonovanSal D'Anna wrote:> Hello,> > I have a client that sells three, six, and 1 year subscriptions. Their> customers receive a monthly package until their subscription expires.> > For example, the customer buys a 6 month subscription which gets paid in> full, including shipping. The new order gets sent to the fulfillment> company to ship the first month. The question is, how should I set up the> system to send the fulfillment email the other 5 months? Should I add an> expiration date field, or a number_left field that reduces the subscription> by one whenever a new shipment is sent?> > > Any ideas?> > > Sal D’Anna-- =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o DONOVAN D. BROOKE Eucalyptus Design <-Web Development (specializing in eCommerce), -> <- Graphic Design, Custom Tags and Labels -> ADDRESS:> Donovan Brooke DBA Eucalyptus Design N2862 Summerville Park Rd. Lodi, WI 53555 PH:> 1.608.592.3567 Web:> http://www.euca.us =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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It seems to me that you would have two field values to use.the Date that the subscription was made: "SUB_DATE"andthe Subscription term: "SUB_TERM"Maybe one more field to show the last date sent: "LAST_SENT" From those two values I think a fulfillment sendmail tpl couldcalculate the dates that the email gets sent out.. maybe hitby a trigger every so often.something like (abridged):[text]sub_date=[lookup returnfield=SUB_DATE][/text][text]sub_months=[lookup returnfield=SUB_TERM][/text][text]last_sent=[lookup returnfield=LAST_SENT][/text][text]dates=[!] [/!][loop start=1&end=[sub_months]][!] [/!][math date]{[sub_date]}+{0[index]/00/0000}[/math],[!] [/!][/loop][!][/!][/text][showif ,[listwords words=[dates]&delimiters=,][url][word][/url][delimiter][/listwords]^[url][date][/url]] [hideif [url][last_sent][/url]=[url][date][/url]][sendmail ...][/sendmail] [replace db=blay&eqIDdatarq=ID]last_sent=[date][/replace] [committdatabase db=] [/hideif][/showif]....would be one way to do it ;-)DonovanSal D'Anna wrote:> Hello,> > I have a client that sells three, six, and 1 year subscriptions. Their> customers receive a monthly package until their subscription expires.> > For example, the customer buys a 6 month subscription which gets paid in> full, including shipping. The new order gets sent to the fulfillment> company to ship the first month. The question is, how should I set up the> system to send the fulfillment email the other 5 months? Should I add an> expiration date field, or a number_left field that reduces the subscription> by one whenever a new shipment is sent?> > > Any ideas?> > > Sal D’Anna-- =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o DONOVAN D. BROOKE Eucalyptus Design <-Web Development (specializing in eCommerce), -> <- Graphic Design, Custom Tags and Labels -> ADDRESS:> Donovan Brooke DBA Eucalyptus Design N2862 Summerville Park Rd. Lodi, WI 53555 PH:> 1.608.592.3567 Web:> http://www.euca.us =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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