OptiSkin - Customer and Signup Interface

Customer and Signup Interface

System Requirements

Front End: Windows 2000/2003 with IIS and ASP enabled or Apache 1.3.x or greater (on any supported platform, e.g. Linux, FreeBSD, etc) with PHP 4.2.x or newer installed
Back End: FileMaker Pro Unlimited 5.5 on a Windows 2000/2003/XP or Mac OS X
[asp version only] - Microsoft XML 4.0 DLLs - click here to download
Functional OptiGold installation

Major Features

Utilizes OptiWrap wrapper (ASP or PHP) for increased security
Totally new look and feel over "stock" OptiGold Customer Web Interface and Online Signup pages
Uses modern web technologies such as style sheets and include files for easy customizing
ASP or PHP-based wrapper with Session-based user authentication - no more "View Source" revealing the username and password
No third-party COM/ISAPI/Loadable modules needed
Eliminates the need to install the WSC Connector in order to do SSL - you can now do SSL natively
More secure, totally eliminates direct customer access to FileMaker Web Companion
Allows use of ASP or PHP to pull from or insert into external databases, etc
Ability to add Slave accounts to the Master Account
Ability to "one click" print Invoices
Ability to distinguish between "Master" and "Slave" Accounts at log-in time
Ability to search for an E-mail address
Ability to easily brand/customize interface for resellers based on URL (logo, style sheet, welcome message, etc)
...and much more.. :-)

Version History

Whats New in 1.9:

Re-worked Online Signup Interface to allow for "CD Signup" functionality (pushes .ins file to client once signup is complete). See strings.asp/.inc file in signup/includes folder for details on enabling this
Added the ability to pass an offer code to the Online Signup Interface via the querystring (/signup/index.php?offercode=blah) or http post. If one is passed, the Offer Code box does not appear on the first signup page

Whats New in 1.8:

Fixed a security bug in the session handling portion of the PHP version of the Signup interface
Fixed a few minor cosmetic problems for Mozilla/Netscape users

Whats New in 1.7:

Added the ability to use Prepaid cards in the Online Signup interface
Added the ability to use Prepaid cards in the "Make Payment" area of the Customer interface
Fixed a bug in the PHP version of the Signup interface that was causing PHP errors on some fields when they were passed with no value

Whats New in 1.6:

Added the ability to quickly change the look/feel of OptiSkin via Element Packs
Fully integrated entire skin with style sheets
Created the Mac OS X Element Pack (click here for example look/feel)
Better Netscape, Mozilla, and Safari compatibility
Added a confirmation dialog box to Tech Callback request/cancel
Added the ability to perform a WHOIS query to the Domain Names area
Changed directory name for ASP version of CDML files from "optiskin" to "optiskin-asp" for consistency

Whats New in 1.5:

Reworked Account Info page. It will now will automatically display and select the current Billing Type (Credit Card, Bank Debit, None, etc) based on what is currently in OptiGold. This works around the issue of a customer that has a credit card in the system but whose Billing Type is set to "None" having the value reset to Credit Card when making any edits to the Account Info page
Added error handling to Account Info page that prevents the customer from selecting Bank Draft but not filling in the Bank Account number field or selecting Credit Card but not filling in a credit card number fields (will fall back to Invoice in both cases)
Added Bank Debit/Draft selection to Account Info page and Make Payment page
Added basic reseller/branding support, allowing the customization of the logo, style sheet and title bar text based on URL used to access the system. Useful for companies that want to offer a branded interface to their resellers
Added the ability for customer to add new domain name, including domain login, password, misc and tag fields
Fixed some misc PHP issues related to warnings displayed if a variable was null/empty

Whats New in 1.4:

Added ability to search on an E-mail address or portion of an address [screenshot]
Added ability to "page through" 10 E-mail records at a time [screenshot]
Added Block Usage display to Account Status box [screenshot]
Country field not being passed properly in Online Signup has been fixed
Path problem in PHP version of invoice_detail.cdml has been fixed
Reworked Payment History page to compensate for custom payment types

Whats New in 1.3f:

Domain name chosen during Online Signup is now set up properly in OptiGold
ASP and PHP versions are now included in a single distribution (see updated install instructions if you need help with the new directory structure)

Whats New in 1.2:

Added Tech Support callback function [screenshot]
Added Dial-Up Number Finder [screenshot]
Added Time/Disk/Bandwidth Usage [screenshot]
Directory structure changed to make customization/installation of upgrades easier. See release notes for details
Added the ability to change the path to the CDML files via the strings.asp conf file
Added the ability to change the title of each page via the strings.asp conf file
Added the ability to change welcome text on main menu page via the welcome.inc include file
Added the ability to change ISP snail-mail address on Invoice detail via the ispdetails.inc include file
Added the ability to change the text on the last page of Online Signup via the signupdone.inc include file
Fixed a few misc image path referencing problems
Fixed Termination Date not being passed properly
Fixed a problem where credit card payment was being forced even when bank debit was available on Online Signup
Fixed a calculation problem with the credit card expiration date checking function in Online Signup
Fixed misc Online Signup issues
Removed logo image from login and password recovery pages

Screenshots

Customer Interface:

Online Signup:

Pricing

Many development hours go in to the creation of OptiSkin, so we are asking a small fee for the product. Compared to developing your own solution in house, we think you'll agree it is a bargain :-)

Product Name	Price
Customer and Online Signup Web Skin	$125

For each skin you get the full source code, basic assistance in setting the system up on your box, and free upgrades until the next major revision of OptiGold ISP's Web Interface code (expected with the release of FileMaker 7). We do plan to stay current with any changes made by the OptiGold ISP developers to the Web Interface functionality.

Questions? mike@sparklogic.com

Installation Instructions

SparkLogic also offers consulting services to help you integrate your back-end server systems (Mail, DNS, Radius, etc) with OptiGold. If you're interested in what we can do to help automate your ISP/Hosting company, please drop us a line at sales@sparklogic.com