Shipping a subscription based service

webteks · Post by **webteks** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:55 am

Hi All,

Just started using ablecommerce and all the features are blowing me away, this really is a great package!

I have a question though about how I do the following:

We sell a subscription based service. When someone purchases they get 12 months access. If you post data to our script on a separate server (i.e name, email, username etc..) then our system will automatically create the account.

How can I make it so that when I move an orders status to shipped it creates a post to my script and sends out a confirmation email with their username and password to the customer?

Many thanks in advance for your comments.

AbleMods · Post by **AbleMods** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:05 pm

You could either modify the order shipment part of the order summary screen, or just write your own page to pull up all unshipped orders and execute the appropriate steps.

I'm in the process of modifying the shipment-process myself through my own code. It isn't finished yet but it's not terribly hard to do once you understand how Able stores/processes shipments.

Regardless, you'll need .Net knowledge to program the necessary code.

webteks · Post by **webteks** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:17 am

Thanks for reply joe,

Just trying to get my head round the logic of what I need then will most likely come back for more help :S