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 Immediately:

1. Ensure that old clients not already in the current eCommerce module are imported.
2. Current Ecommerce database be imported into the new billing system
3. Proper process flow for manual and credit card transactions.
4. Revamp of the invoicing/payment and associated email notifications.
5. Ability upgrade/downgrade plans and addons
6. Have the option of having billing at a certain day of the month/year. And prorata the first payment if necessary. If the prorata amount is too small add it to the following month.
7. Add extra billable items such as support services and other ad hoc items not associated with hosting or addons.
8. Billing emails containing link to the actual invoice. This will make it easier to navigate and pay the bill.
9. Support monthly and yearly billing cycles.
10. Support PlanetDomains.com.au domain registrar.
11. Support for commissions to sales people. For example, a host company may have a sales force which is paid by commission (either flat rate or %). Each client is associated with a sales person. At the end of every month we can generate a report of all sales and commission to each sales person. It's sort of like an affiliate code.
12. Support for those affiliate systems. Can't think of one at the moment. 

Thats all for now. I did write plenty before. I just need to go through my forum posts again. 

I think there was also talk and requests to allow for the manual billing of customers.  As I understand it, customers who were imported or created manually in DNP aren't able to be invoiced.  This topic was brought up in June of 2007 in the post located here: http://forum.dotnetpanel.com/forums/p/2461/13677.aspx#13677

 This should probably  be addressed.

1. I think the most important thing for non US DNP users are possibility to add new payment providers.
2. Promo codes and trial periods when users can resign
3. http://forum.dotnetpanel.com/forums/t/3813.aspx
4. Option for administrator/reseller to change hosting time period (for example user buyed 12months hosting but he helped to solve some problem and now I want to give him one month for free)

There are alot of good ideas here.

I would like to add that support for MaxMind fraud protection would be great! More info can be found at www.maxmind.com/app/ccv

There was a discussion of it here http://forum.dotnetpanel.com/forums/t/3074.aspx

Thanks

1. posibility to include others payment methods for non-US a set the currency for this method
2. Support multi Credit card payment Method at same time. (i.e.  2co and PaypalPro or Custom Payment Method)
3. Set a Primary currency and suport Multi currency (convert to the currency that suppor the payment method)
4. In multicurrency have the posibility to asociated a specifit payment Method (i.e. US$ use Paypal, BsF use a Custom payment Method)
5. Import manual created DNP user and space to ecommercer module
6. Sell custon product not related to spaces
7. Sell domain only
8. Sell SSL Certificates. Can use Enom API or DirectI API
9. support TLD .VE in search whois
10. Sell add-on post a first sale (I.e. more Webspace or BW or SQLServer DB)
11. Downgrade or upgrade plans
12. Cancel add-on or a plan
13. Branded Logo customizacion by Reseller (set by parameter in reseller profile)
14. Generate invoice the first day of month
15. If customer buy a plan in any day of month then prorate price to last day of month and include the result to the billing cycle
16. Ecommerce localization lenguaje. The default lenguaje can by set in Reseller profile

Number one for me is the ability to add in existing customers to the payment system. This has forced us to go to manual billing. It never occurred to me when I made the choice to move to DNP that this wouldn't be supported.

 Outside of that - the general flow of the customer experience in relation to e-commerce could stand to be more intuitive. It's not instinctive for our new clients.

Despite my critical opening statement - I really do love DNP and see it as a significant improvement over Plesk/Helm for the Windows environment. My clients also love the look and feel of the user interface. The e-commerce portion is the weak spot and I'm very pleased to hear it getting some attention.

Please take a look at this thread: http://forum.dotnetpanel.com/forums/t/3772.aspx 

There some design issues that need to be addressed in the E-Commerce system. I will be more than happy to work with the DNP team and help implement an effective system. Hopefully it is not too late.

Please let me know if clarification is needed on anything mentioned in the thread above.

Thanks. 

If you need beta testers I'd be quite happy to help out. 

I think now the most important question is:

When?

There was promise for releasing tutorial how to add new payment system to DNP but now when You are rewriting ecommerce module this tutorial probably has to wait for final release?

Hi

Most of my customers manage there own account (ftp, sql, ...) but i am always called if there needs to be extra options or a new account.

I want to be able to create it for them without asking there password. 

 If you can't wait for DNP to release the next ecommerce module, you can purchase WHMCS which can do support as well.

I'm interested only in adding new payment provider (WHMCS is not supporting my local providers) to DNP and there was promise for releasing tutorial how to to this:

http://forum.dotnetpanel.com/forums/p/1141/19055.aspx#19055

Probably DNP didnt released this tutorial because more or less things will be changed in new ecommerce module so it would be nice to know some ETA for new ecommerce version.

 Maybe custom registration fields would be nice. For example additional instant messangers or "where do You found us".

 So .. You have our feedback and now I think we must ask question regarding new/updated Ecommerce module. When do You plan to release it?