Comments on: A sneak peek at the new OpenSRS Storefront

By: Lord Matt

Lord Matt — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:24:27 +0000

I love you. This is great. I would express just how great but no one wants to hear that much praise.

You rock and roll.

By: Nikolas Dafopoulos

Nikolas Dafopoulos — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:14:13 +0000

When purchasing a domain it doesn’t show the currency of the purcahse price anywhere.

I assume it is in US$, but it should state that somewhere.

We are a Canadian reseller and our clients will assume our prices are in Canadian dollars.

Ther seems to be no option on the store front manager to state that the price is in US$

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:10:44 +0000

@Fred @58. Thanks for the feedback on Storefront.

“migrating existing clients over…”

As mentioned above, we’ll introduce this functionality by the end of January 2009.

“setting us up as some kind of superusers…”

Storefront’s Domain Manager is an easy-to-use end-user tool that you provide to your customers, complete with in line help. This as a *big* improvement over the current manage domain tool we provide. The end goal here is to give non-technical (and tech savvy) users an interface that they can use to manage and renew the domain services you provide them.

“maintaining a balance for reseller-managed purchase…”

You can do this today. Using Storefront does not prohibit you from keeping funds on balance for RWI or API managed domains.

-Liam

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:49:15 +0000

Well, I for one am happy with this move. No, I didn’t ask for it . . . but I like it! You are right, there’s more to domain name registration than price.

I would only add my voice to those calling for a way to migrate existing clients over. In connection, the ability for us resellers to manage these accounts (as currently in the RWI) should be a simple matter of setting us up as some kind of superusers, where we simply have more authoritative access than the domain owner.

One other suggested feature. Let us set an amount to remain in our account as a balance for reseller-managed purchases.

Get these things knocked out (migration, management, and reseller balances) and I think I could ditch the RWI altogether.

Thanks

Fred

By: Liam

Liam — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:15:53 +0000

@Terry @55. Further to James McNally’s response, while in “Preview” mode, OpenSRS Storefront supports new registrations only.

We will allow you to pull in existing domains registered through our API or the RWI before the end of January 2009.

-Liam

By: James McNally

James McNally — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:09:33 +0000

@Terry, your first point is correct in that you will still need to manage your existing customers in the RWI.

Accounts registered through Storefront are basically self-serve accounts and you can’t really “manage” them since they are paying directly for their own services. You can manage accounts in the RWI because you are paying for services on their behalf.

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:02:19 +0000

Ok, so if I’m getting this right my existing customers wont be able to manage their accounts from the storefront, they will have to use the manage dot opensrs site, is that correct?

And a second question, will I be able to manage the accounts registered through the storefront in the existing RWI or will I have to use the storefront or that?

By: James Koole

James Koole — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:15:48 +0000

@Tim and @John – both support and development have been made aware of this issue. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

By: John Roche

John Roche — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:56:24 +0000

I also am getting the ‘Wait 24 hours” message a couple of days after setting this up.

ALSO: please allow access to the CSS file for customizing the site – this would be a quick and dirty way to get better integration with our own sites at little cost.

By: Tim Langen

Tim Langen — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:25:55 +0000

Very nice but the setup is not allowing me to edit the pricing saying i must wait 24 hours and it has now been more than 48.