Primary keys for bussines objects

Powie

I have learned that we have a great chance to feetch data from enhance via the API.
We have soemtheng similar for plesk, but this was never completed because its unusable over the number of servers, ther was no single endpoint....

To have the ability to clearly identify each customer and contract, it's very important to have a "primary key" for, let me talk in enhances language:

organizations - customer_id
web packages - contract_Id
domains - domain_id
.....

this can be done via a extra field OR a tagging system .
Identifiing customers by a "name" or email adress doesn't work on a number of xxxx customers... domains are the primary key, but remember, they will also be booked in different contracts, at different dates. They maybe have a logical link to the webspace in Enhance, but not always to the same webspace contract.......

Any ideas to this from other users weill be realy great and usefull

Adam

Whenever you create something via the API, a website, customer, subscription, etc you will be returned the key for that object. In most cases it's a uuid but in some cases it's an integer.

The various billing platforms (Upmind, WHMCS, etc) store this against the relevant object in their database so that they can perform subsequent operations on that object for example suspending a non-paying customer.

The general hierarchy is:

Organisation -> Subscription -> Website -> Everything else

If an Organisation has a Subscription to a Plan which has the Customers resource (and therefore is a reseller) then other Organisations can belong to them.

Powie

Cool, then simple show us the IDs in Enhance (not UUID) ....

We have also deep dived into upmind. Cool, but at this stage fare away from the ability to manage "hosting" invoicing, what is more complex than a annual invoice.

Adam

The ID is the UUID except for a few items which have an integer key such as Plans and Subscriptions.

Is it the UI where you want to see these IDs? If so, in some places we have a copy icon. We are adding more. You can also take it from your browser's address bar, for example when viewing a website.

Powie

Adam If it is the UUID, then it isn't usefull. We like an ID more in the style of a customer number, more simple, like 10342. This is how the invoicing software is working , mostly the use defined number ranges

example customers: 10000 - 99999

this ist the key for using the api later on to identify bussiness objects