As the title states I'm brewing on a site where the costumer can buy X online licenses. The amount of licenses is stored on the purchase order of uCommerce and by logging into his account he will be able to access them. I need to build in a functionality which lets each costumer assign one of their licenses to another account. Put in other words: If you're from the company Y and you buy X licenses you should be able to redistribute these licenses to other accounts on the site probably co-workers.
That is how the functionality is supposed to look like. My question then remains, what would be the best way to store the redistributed license and keep track of it?
I've been thinking about assigning a new dummy purchase order to each account where the license is redistributed to and then update it along with the original one, whenever the costumer from the company Y prolongs his subscription. Then I would make a costum field in the purchase order containing the ID of the original one. Does this seem straight forward and the best way to do it?
Looking forward to having your two cents echoing in the bottom of my chest.
Interesting I was asked almost the exact same question last week :)
You have two options that I can think of right off the top of my head:
1) Dummy orders, which would work exactly like you describe. You'd use solution 1 if your requirement is to have the assignee maintain the subscription after it is assigned to him.
or 2) Separate shipments for each assignment of licenses, e.g. order lines are linked to a shipment with the details of the assignee. If you need subscriptions to be maintained by the assigner you can use shipments for the licenses to keep them assigned to one order and thus enable centralized management of the subscriptions.
The solution resolves around who's doing the maintenance of the subscription and I'm not quite clear on who it is: Assigner (purchaser) or Assignee.
License Give Away Implementation
Hi there!
As the title states I'm brewing on a site where the costumer can buy X online licenses. The amount of licenses is stored on the purchase order of uCommerce and by logging into his account he will be able to access them. I need to build in a functionality which lets each costumer assign one of their licenses to another account. Put in other words: If you're from the company Y and you buy X licenses you should be able to redistribute these licenses to other accounts on the site probably co-workers.
That is how the functionality is supposed to look like. My question then remains, what would be the best way to store the redistributed license and keep track of it?
I've been thinking about assigning a new dummy purchase order to each account where the license is redistributed to and then update it along with the original one, whenever the costumer from the company Y prolongs his subscription. Then I would make a costum field in the purchase order containing the ID of the original one. Does this seem straight forward and the best way to do it?
Looking forward to having your two cents echoing in the bottom of my chest.
Best regards,
Brinck10
Hi Brinck10,
Interesting I was asked almost the exact same question last week :)
You have two options that I can think of right off the top of my head:
1) Dummy orders, which would work exactly like you describe. You'd use solution 1 if your requirement is to have the assignee maintain the subscription after it is assigned to him.
or 2) Separate shipments for each assignment of licenses, e.g. order lines are linked to a shipment with the details of the assignee. If you need subscriptions to be maintained by the assigner you can use shipments for the licenses to keep them assigned to one order and thus enable centralized management of the subscriptions.
The solution resolves around who's doing the maintenance of the subscription and I'm not quite clear on who it is: Assigner (purchaser) or Assignee.
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