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Registrar use case: a better way?
- Subject: Registrar use case: a better way?
- From: Luke <..hidden..>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:49:00 -0400 (EDT)
Hello
One of my use cases for ledgersmb, is as the backend for a domain name
registrar component of a larger business.
So, customers buy one or more domains, for one or more years each.
The company then pays registration fees to an up-stream registrar, and the
customer gets his domain(s).
I am trying to figure out the best way to implement this.
The way I am reasonably sure of, which seems rather overly complex, and at
least highly un-automated, is to:
1. Generate an order for a domain product, the unit of which is years.
2. From that order, generate a sales invoice to the customer.
3. Open the same order, and generate a
vendor invoice for all of the domains that are part of a given
transaction. I think I can avoid a purchase order for this, but haven't
done it in a while.
Anyway, is there a more straight forward way to pull this off? I could
probably write a script to black box it using the API in 1.2.18, but
thought I would see if there was an accounting method which made more
sense first, since these would all be contemporaneous transactions--I.E.,
rarely would one of them happen without all of the others happening,
including the payments.
Luke