Pierre Smits wrote: > Hi Ted, > > First of all, in general companies have a document called Terms of Sale and > Delivery and in most cases these documents contain a paragraph stating > which law and court is deemed to be applicable when conflicts regarding the > terms of sale and delivery arise. The companies better make sure that they > don't have terms that are in violation of that law. > > Now,regarding cross-border selling, it all has to do with the revenue > gained from cross-border sales and the risk it involves. If the revenue is > marginal the company might decide that it is cheaper not to create to much > fuss when a customer says that some parts aren't applicable according to > domestic or even regional law, and just terminate the contract. > > But, when the revenue gained is significant, the company better make sure > to what extend he runs risks. > > Af for how Mastercard and VISA are doing this, these companies have such a > customer base in each country to enable them to have a presence in those > countries. Just to ease these risks. In the countries they don't have a > presence the customer base is so small compared to the total that they can > accept those risks. > > As for the solution regarding the component, I would envision that a > subscription either has > - the 'automatically terminate' option, or > - the 'automatically extend' option.
This is what Subscription.automaticExtend is all about. It's clearly explained at http://www.amicontech.com/blog/subscriptions-in-ofbiz-and-opentaps/ The data model is good and extendable, you only have to think how to use it in peculiar cases The subscription services are also a good basis for that. Jacques > You could even think of a configuration per country/region of the > underlying product to determine which option is mandatory. > > Regards, > > > Pierre Smits > > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > Services & Solutions for Cloud- > Based Manufacturing, Professional > Services and Retail & Trade > http://www.orrtiz.com > > > What should that solution look like? >> >> More importantly, which rule applies when the vendor is in one country >> and the client is in another and the two countries in question have >> such different rules? > > > >> A vendor can reasonably be expected to be aware >> of extant law in his own country, but it is hardly reasonable to >> expect him to be aware of extant laws in any or all of the other 195 >> countries on the planet. > > > >> And it gets worse, as in Canada, consumer >> protection rules are generally defined at the provincial level (I have >> no idea if there are such rules defined at the federal level in Canada >> also - the feds and provinces occasionally, albeit rarely, work >> together), and if other countries, such as the US, assign such >> responsibility to member states, the number of relevant jurisdictions >> grows considerably. >> >> Do you know if the credit card networks (such as VISA and Mastercard) >> have rules governing this, and, if so, what they are? >> >> Cheers >> >> Ted
