What is the recommended way of setting up existing accounts in Emerald?

Neil Johnson ( neilj@cybrtyme.com )
Tue, 8 Apr 1997 10:19:47 -0500

Hello Everyone,
I have a few questions

What is the recommended way of seamlessly converting from our manual =
billing system?
We would like to avoid any major problems with invoicing our users as we =
switch over to Emerald from a completely manual billing system.
We have close to 1000 users (yes, it is a nightmare to manually bill =
them) currently using our ISP. =20

I am in the process of adding all of the users to our Emerald database =
and am wondering what is the recommended way of setting up the dates for =
the users billing. I would like to keep the create and start dates set =
to the day the user actually signed up with us and don't think this will =
be a problem. The gray area to me is what to do with the paid through, =
last rec and expire fields. Should these fields be changed to reflect =
the users current manual paid through, last rec and expire dates?=20

How often are current users of Emerald running the invoices?

I am looking for some advice.

Thanks in advance!

Neil Johnson
Webmaster - CybrTyme, Inc.
neilj@cybrtyme.com
http://www.cybrtyme.com