Service providers know the importance of being able to easily create trial accounts. Free trials are a crucial part of the sales cycle that gives customers the confidence to purchase services. Equally important is the ability to quickly convert prospects with trial accounts into paying customers.

The Ensim Order Kit offers service providers a fast and efficient way to create trial accounts for prospective users, hosted enterprises, and potential resellers using a branded website and database within their existing Unify hosted solution.

The Order Kit solution works with Unify asynchronously to process requests received from websites tailored with services designed to appeal to specific prospects. With a few clicks from a branded web page, prospects can choose from a variety of services including a hosted exchange 2007 email account with Blackberry support. Once the services have been selected and the account information entered, the trial account owner will receive a confirmation email. As the trial proceeds, updates can be sent at pre-defined intervals.

As requests for trials are recorded from the customer web interface, a backend engine provisions the accounts into designated portions of Unify via web services. The Order Kit uses templates that can be configured for specific service offerings.

Key Deployment Advantages
The Order Kit offers the following features and benefits:

• Provides reporting and email alerts for internal marketing and sales staff
• Simple installation on existing IIS Server and compatible with ASP.net using SQL Server 5.0.
• Easy to setup and modify resource files, style sheets (CSS), and simple image structures.
• Allows for customer tailoring of requested information through resource files, including the end user’s role in the evaluation.
• Fields can be made mandatory or optional
• End user email notifications leverage the required terms of service and can be customized based on frequency and time remaining including notification when the account has been terminated.
• Order Kit offers complete logging of all transactions.

All the features and benefits mentioned above work similarly for end users, organizations, and resellers following the same basic process of account set up within an existing organizational unit.