How to reserve the service?

[Activex]

Hello,

I want to offer a service that will be activated later, but I want customers to be able to reserve now. That is, make a reservation without a purchase.

How do I do this?

Thank you.
 

[steven99]

One method I could think of, but requires client action, is using one product as the reservation and another product as the real product.   Then when the service is ready, they simply do an upgrade from the reserved product to the real product.    Though, might be good idea to have a server module that says "service is coming in xxxxxxx" and have a countdown.   The reservation product would use that server module .  When the upgrade is done though, you may need to run the real server module's createAccount function.  Or build that in to the server module upgrade function to check if the account exists and if not run the _createAccount function. 

EDIT: I suppose a cron hook could be done to do the product upgrade also.  

Edited January 21, 2021 by steven99