How can I create subscription in Episerver?

Oleh Ilnitskiy

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Hi, resently I asked about Creating Offerse How can I create offer in details page? But I guess I will have to create something else. Here is description:

I will have products - newspapers. And when user opens details page he will see this newspaper and price 3 $ . But he will have possibility to order (subscribe) this newspaper for other month. For example:

3 month Price 7$ Save 3$

6 month Price 13$ Save 5$

12 month Price 27$ Save 9 $

I understand from answer in my previous question that I can create variation for my product, but is there some other way in Episerver for creating subscribe and handling such orders. (Because if user will subscribe newspaper for 3 month and i will close/resolve this order how I will know that in the next month i will need to open this order one more time? )

Thanks for Your time , guys !!!

#89149

Aug 08, 2014 11:12

Oleh Ilnitskiy

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I found documentation about Subscription Payment Plan in User Guide. But the problem is that Subscription is for authorized users. But I need to create for anonymous users. Any ideas ?

#89160

Aug 08, 2014 14:06

Oleh Ilnitskiy

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I got one idea. For example I have the same one newspaper. Can I create Package or Bundles for this one varian ? And how can I handle this order with package or bundle every month ?

#89165

Aug 08, 2014 15:26

Quan Mai

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Hi,

For this issue, you can try the payment plan in EPiServer Commerce. Go to Commerce Manager/Order Management/Create new payment plan.

For a payment plan you can specify the frequent, the cycle of an order.

More information can be found here:

http://webhelp.episerver.com/Commerce/1.1.2/Content/User%20Guide/OrderManagement/PaymentPlans.htm

Regards.

#89187

Aug 11, 2014 5:35

Oleh Ilnitskiy

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Hi , I saw it. But I am not sure that Payment Plan can helps me. Because Payment Plan is only for Authorized users, but I need for Anonymus users. I mean: Anonymus can order newspaper (subscribe for 3 month) and he will choose one payment method (for example Pay Pal) and thats all.

Admin side: he will see this order 3 times (1 st , 2nd , 3rd month)

#89191

Aug 11, 2014 9:44

Quan Mai

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Please note that payment plan can be created programmatically - just like creating an order. For special product such as magazine, you when creating order, instead of creating purchase order, you create payment plan for that. For example, you can use PurchaseOrderManager.GetNewPaymentPlanFromCart(Cart) to create new payment plan for your cart.

Regards.

#89192

Aug 11, 2014 9:52

Oleh Ilnitskiy

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Aha... So when user will add some items to shoppingCart and then he will open payment page and pay ... then I can create payment plan for this Cart programmatically and admin will see order every month , right ?

#89193

Aug 11, 2014 10:11

Quan Mai

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Yes, that's the idea. You'll need to make sure that if a produce need a subscription or normal order - but there's plenty ways to do that. For example, you can add a new metafield to indicate that a product/variant is using subscription model.

Regards.

#89194

Aug 11, 2014 10:16

Oleh Ilnitskiy

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@Quan Mai Thanks a lot. You really helped me!

#89195

Aug 11, 2014 10:18