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How do I offer quantity items?


wifiguys

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We're looking at integrating WHMCS into our system to handle billing, but I'm not sure how to handle the billable items.

 

Example:

 

Customer 1 would have the following services:

- Service A: Qty 50 @ $10 /mo each

- Service B: Qty 10 @ $50 /mo each

 

 

Customer 2 would have these services:

- Service B: Qty 50 @ $50 /mo each

 

 

Customer 3 would have:

- Service C: Qty 500 @ $2.50 /mo each

 

Services A, B & C are all very similar, and would use the same custom module to call back into our system for account suspension/etc, and the services are tied directly to different qty of services within our application.

 

 

IE A customer is monitoring 100 access points with our network monitoring software, and we are charging them $1/mo per access point monitored.

 

As the customer adds additional services to their account in our system, we call through the API to create a billing line-item.

 

 

How would we go about setting this up so we don't have 600 services billing individually each month, or 1 service with 600 addons, or 600 individual invoices?

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

[edit] I'd like to be able to have their recurring product/service set up so the monthly statements look like:

 

January 2010

Qty 50 - Service A @ $10 - $500

 

February 2010

Qty 55 - Service A @ $10 - $550

 

March 2010

Qty 55 - Service A @ $10 - $550

Qty 2 - Service B @ $50 - $100

Total $650

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John,

 

Can you give some more detail on *how* the configurable options would be used to set a quantity.

 

We sell services which are bought in quantity. I expected to be able to define the service and then add a configurable option for quantity so that it would be used to multiply the main product price i.e.

  • Product 1 - Monthly recurring of £20

  • with quantity option of 15 created with no pricing values in the option table

  • should produce an order with a value of £300

 

This just produces an order with a value of £20.

 

Maybe that's exactly what you expected, and you intend that we set the value of the quantity option in the pricing table attached to it? I can do that and it seems to add up.

 

However the shopping cart then shows the items as costing nothing? That can't be what you intended and creates a misleading impression for the shopper.

 

How would you do this?

 

Thanks

Matthew

 

(sorry for butting in wifiguys)

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Matthew, I was just about to ask the same thing. I created a QTY configurable option for a service, created an order for 37 x $10/mo, and it billed the client just 10.

 

I didn't know I had to create a sub option. So I created a sub-option, gave it a monthly price of $10.

 

Now, for an order with a Quantity of 37, with a per-service price of $10, the total SHOULD be $370, but the total recurring is $380. $10 for the service, and then 37x$10 ADDITIONAL.

 

This isn't how a Qty multiplier should work.

 

 

 

 

I like the api integration, and the ability for us to make our own modules for provisioning within our own software... but if I can't even manually create products/services and invoices the way they need to be created, then we're going to have to find a different recurring billing solution. :(

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John,

 

If I set the product price to $0.00 then it appears in the shopping cart as $0.00. If I set it to -1 and just have the pricing on the quantity option, it appears as free and doesn't charge for anything no matter what price there may be on the option.

 

Is there a way to use quantities that doesn't leave the shopping cart showing $0.00 pricing?

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks

Matthew

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If I set the product price to $0.00 then it appears in the shopping cart as $0.00. If I set it to -1 and just have the pricing on the quantity option, it appears as free and doesn't charge for anything no matter what price there may be on the option.

 

Is there a way to use quantities that doesn't leave the shopping cart showing $0.00 pricing?

 

Same problem with multi year domain registrations. The recommended way to sell 3 - 10 year registrations is to set the product price to 0 and set options for the years, but that leaves $0 in the shopping cart, which isn't right.

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