Hi Jeremiah:
I use the subscription portion of the data model to handle product
subscriptions for my OFBiz store and delivery website. Currently all my
products are sold as subscriptions - even though it may not be
intuitively obvious. This is how it works at a really hight level: When
I receive payment for a product I write a record for the user (partyId)
in the Subscription entity. This record has a foreign key to a record in
the SubscriptionResource entity that defines the product that is the
basis for the subscription.
When the buyer goes to the delivery web site
(http://www.myofbiz.com/mylibrary) I check to see what Subscriptions are
still current and what SubscriptionResource(s) they have and based on
that information, give them access to the appropriate product.
So, I guess the answer to your question is: It depends on what you want
to do. The data model has everything I need to implement my subscription
service. The user interface to set things up and support user
subscription renewals is lacking in 9.04 and previous releases.
Regards,
Ruth Hoffman
Jeremiah Christensen wrote:
Our company provides a paid subscription service. I've not taken a close look
at the subscription support in OFBiz yet, but was wondering if anyone has
implemented it and if so what your thoughts are about it.
Best Regards,
Jeremiah Christensen
