On 27 Jun 2017 at 9:18, Ghislain wrote:
      Good Morning all,
      
     We (i.e. .RW registry – RICTA Ltd.) are not using FRED but I think the prepayment
model is more
      or less the same.
      
     #1. We don’t pre-invoice the registrars based on a “pre-established” list of
domain names.
      This is a lot of work, and it won’t scale if you
have 100 of registrars, unless 
the registry does that
      for them.
     But even if it is possible from the registry, it is a lot of work for “them” (i.e.
manual work).
       
     Therefore, they (registrars) just send money/amount, let say $500 or 30,000 RWF,
and that is
      what we issue the invoice for.
     With a simple description, i.e. “Advance payment”. BTW, the amount can vary
depending on
      what they want to register, renew, etc. 
Thank you for the input, most of this is already the same on .mw registry.
      The law in Rwanda don’t allow to receive money
without an invoice. (it being 
advance or actual
      payment). 
It appears there is no such law in Malawi and this is part of the reason I raised the
question - to learn what is the case with other ccTLD registries.
      #2. Once received, we credit their accounts in the
Registry system. (still a 
manual process).
      Then they can do whatever they want with it (i.e.
do registration, renewal, pay 
for transfer fees,
      etc.). 
Same.
So, does your registry system have facilities for generating invoices such as these for
pre-payments?
Does it produce statements form registrars?
Regards,
Paulos
======================
Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
http://www.registrar.mw
       
     I think this approach (above) is more flexible.
      
     A little additional info:
      
     The money received from registrars, is a liability until it is consumed.
     Until it is consumed, it cannot yet be called revenues from your side (registry).
     From financial “documents” perspective, an un-consumed advance payment is a
liability that
      needs to seat in the balance sheet.
     Once the revenue is realized (end of month), the money can be recognized in you
Income
      statement. (you debit the liability and credit
your income accounts).
      
     Sorry if this is perhaps more than what you asked for.
      
     Thank you,
      
     Ghislain
     .RW registry
      
     From: fred-users <fred-users-bounces(a)lists.nic.cz> on behalf of Jaromir Talir
     <jaromir.talir(a)nic.cz>
     Reply-To: A mailing list for users and developers of FRED registry system
     <fred-users(a)lists.nic.cz>
     Date: Friday, 23 June 2017 at 17:18
     To: <paulos(a)sdnp.org.mw>mw>, <fred-users(a)lists.nic.cz>
     Subject: Re: payments - invoices and statements on FRED registry system
      
     Hi Paulos,
      
     I guess this is more question for some Malawi lawyer. In Czech Republic
     we have a law that we should issue invoice when we receive advanced
     payment. However, this may be something specific for our legislation.
     Also every legislation specifies what should be the content of the
     invoice in that case (issuer, recipient, day of payment, effective day
     of service, etc..). This may differ country to country as well. FRED
     contains PDF templates for invoices according Czech legislation. I
     cannot say if they may be used for you as well.
      
     If you will be in Joburg, we can have a talk about it there.
      
     Regards,
     Jaromir
      
     On Fri, 2017-06-16 at 05:15 +0200, Dr P Nyirenda wrote:
     Hello,
     I would like to find out how your registry responds to a request like
     the one here below
     for invoices and statements on registrar payments to a registry that
     uses the FRED
     registry system.
     On our registry for the Malawi .mw ccTLD, registrar payments are
     credited to the
     registrar zone by zone according to what the registrar has paid for.
     Once the registrar
     has consumed the credit, then they need to make a new payment in
     advance which is then
     credited to the zones that they need.
     We do not need to issue them an invoice in advance, they make the
     payments based on what
     transactions they need to do on each zone.
     When we receive a request for their data payments, we have used
     Invoice on Daphne to
     generate the data and we have sent this to the registrar.
     However, as you can see here below, this registrar seems to be asking
     for more.
     I would therefore like to request information on how your registry
     using FRED handles
     requests for data, invoices and statements like these.
     Regards,
     Paulos
     ======================
     Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
     NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
     
http://www.registrar.mw
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     From:                Jamil Kamaly <Jamil.Kamaly(a)NetNames.com >
     To:     "paulos(a)sdnp.org.mw" <paulos(a)sdnp.org.mw>
     Copies to:        Michal Czyz <Michal.Czyz(a)NetNames.com>om>, domains mw
     <domains(a)registrar.mw>mw>,
                PB Nyirenda <pb.nyirenda(a)gmail.com>
     Subject:            RE: Malawi payments.
     Date sent:       Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:56:39 +0000
     Hi Dr Paulos,
     I think you might have misunderstood, I wasn’t complaining. The
     details you provided me
     in April was excel spreadsheet with payment details and the zones
     that were topped. We
     need proper invoices and statements and therefore I was following  up
     on our last
     conversation where you was saying that you are developing a system to
     make this possible.
     I was just checking if this is now possible and would we be getting
     proper statements
     and invoices.
     Thank you.
     Kind regards,
     Jamil
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