Strange CCBill email???
 

Did any other paysite owner get one of these in the mail tonight?

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING CCBILL ACCOUNT: XXXXXX



Dear CCBill Client:

In an effort to improve the performance and redundancy of our transactional processing systems, we will soon institute a change in the numbering convention of our Subscription Identification (ID) Numbers. This change is important for you to note especially if your website(s) and/or system scripts are written to include our CCBill Subscription ID numbers.


In order to accommodate this update, please plan to make the appropriate changes to your systems by the scheduled implementation date of Thursday, September 7, 2006.

PLEASE NOTE: This change will not influence the historical subscription and reservations ID's prior to the above implementation date.

The following CCBill Client accessed systems will be affected by this change:


1) System5 Web Admin
2) Client Affiliate System
3) DataLink Subscription Management System
4) Subscription Notification Systems (Email, Background & Approval Posts)
5) Subscription Upgrade System


With this change, CCBill Subscription ID's will support the following new format:



0006100101000000001 - First 2 Digits are the Station ID

0006100101000000001 - Digits 3-4 are the last 2 digits of the current year

0006100101000000001 - Digits 5-7 are the Julian Date

0006100101000000001 - Digit 8 is the Day of the Week (1=Monday, 2=Tuesday, 00000oooooo000000oooooo3=Wednesday, 4=Thursday, 5=Friday, 6=Saturday, 7=Sunday)

0006100101000000001 - Digits 9-10 are the Payment Method (1=Credit, 2=Test, 3=User
00000oooooo000000ooooooManagement, 6=ACH,7=Telephone Billing)

0006100101000000001 - Digits 11- 19 are the Subscription ID
oooo0ooo000oooooo000ooounique to current station ID and Julian Date

If you have any questions regarding this change in the CCBill Subscription ID format, or any other CCBill product or service, our Client Support team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to assist you. They can be reached toll free at 800.510.2859 or by email at [email protected].

Thank you,

Client Support

i got one

It must be some kind of joke right? We got two of them but only have one main account...

I got it but I'm too lazy to read it.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I think its just the subscription numbers. Don't think the linking codes etc are changing.

absolutely correct, this is NOT related to linking codes

this is how we assign unique identifiers to transactions

Ah... I'm to jetlagged to read properly ;) Still strange that they send out two mails, one for each paysite, instead of just one to the regular mailadress we use with them.

Ooops, sorry if I set the alarms ringing in some peoples heads with this. Why didn't you send them to the usual email adress?

Here is the part that made me read it 4 or 5 times...

In order to accommodate this update, please plan to make the appropriate changes to your systems by the scheduled implementation date of Thursday, September 7, 2006.

Still trying to figure out what changes we are supposed to make by the implementation date.

For clients that use our postback/datalink features, this is a notice that they may need to alter their database structure to accommodate the extra characters for the subscription id

in other words it's only relevant for paysite owners who use ccbill in their NATS system or any other cascade program .

Yes, its relevant for clients that need to import that data into their own systems/databases for whatever reasons.

Yup, got it now, thanks.

watch how many NATS sponsers fuck up now

at least the smaller ones

yep got my two emails to.........

Will we be able to do test signups that have the new 19 digit subscription number before it goes live?

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When is the announcement about CCBILL reducing its rates to 5% being sent out ?:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

I think its referring to the subscription number assigned when people signup.

so is this something NATS is going to adjust or do we need to do it ourselves?

time to do some digging...

I doubt its a joke...has my account number and notice of upgrade.

I'm sure NATS will be all over it with plenty of time to spare.

i sure hope so... i'll check with them on ICQ tomorrow

Hey everyone,

to those that are concerned about NATS and this change from CCBill:
Our system was designed from the ground up to handle transaction and subscription ids of extremely high length because we knew that we want to support many payment providers and knew some might be using very long ids for those fields.

NATS's transaction and subscription id fields in the database allow up to 128 characters of data, so the change CCBill did will not affect any NATS installs out there.

Even better, thanks for the clarification. :thumbsup

I got 20 of them lol

three in my mail box today...