Integration
We offer three different ways to integrate with OpenSRS to sell and manage OpenSRS products and services:
OpenSRS API
- Conduct transactions manually or automate by writing your own code, or use our PERL-based reference client library
- Our API uses XML Over HTTPS Post for authentication and encryption
- It offers advanced functionality for ordering and managing services including name locking and customer self-management tools
Reseller Web Interface (RWI)
- A browser-based, secure, real-time control panel
- Facilitates customer contact, financial and service information
- Allows you to conduct transactions manually at anytime
- View monthly summaries of Reseller activity and view account balance at anytime
- Use customer messaging subsystems for renewals/transfers and account maintenance
- Receive proactive notifications concerning maintenance windows, new services and changes to supplier requirements
- Access OpenSRS Insight for sales and business management statistics
OpenSRS Storefront
There are a few things that distinguish the OpenSRS Storefront from competing hosted reseller-in-a-box offerings. The Internet has changed dramatically over the past few years with the arrival of what has become known as “Web 2.0.” Our Storefront really reflects those changes.
Back in 1999, people looking to buy domain names were generally fairly tech-savvy individuals who knew how to code HTML or manage their own server. Or they were companies with IT departments that could make sure that the website that new domain name was pointing to worked properly.
Today, anyone and everyone wants to be online. Tools like hosted blogs, photo sharing sites and MySpace deliver on the promise of making it easy to establish and maintain an online identity. Our Storefront further extends this and makes it easy for everyone to find, buy, own and manage their own domain name, regardless of technical experience.
OpenSRS Storefront is easy to deploy, configure and manage. Once you're signed up as an OpenSRS Reseller, it's as simple as clicking a link in the Reseller Web Interface, configuring your store with a logo, choosing a theme and setting pricing for the various products and services you'll sell.
It’s really a domain name sales site for the Web 2.0 age and we think it represents the way domain names will be sold in the coming years.
End-user facing management interfaces
Your customers need a way to stay on top of their services as well. Our white-label management interfaces help you automate many of your support and management processes so you can reduce costs and avoid having to build it yourself. Self-management interfaces assist you in cost-effectively running your business.
The Manage Web Interface (MWI) offers:
- Complete functionality for managing the entire domain name lifecycle
- Fully-redundant, clustered architecture for optimum reliability, stability and security
- A proven system used by more than 9,000 companies worldwide
- Customer self-management of contact information, ordering and service
- The ability to make changes to domain ownership, renew services
- Customize the MWI to integrate specific functionality and brand it for your business
OpenSRS Infrastructure
At OpenSRS, we've designed our domain service architecture in a clustered environment to virtually eliminate downtime - saving you time and money. No machine carries more than 50% of the traffic, so that if one fails, the redundant system can assume the workload. This system design mitigates loss of service so you can deliver maximum performance. We also house the infrastructure at a top-tier data center for additional reliability and security.
This approach provides the following advantages:
- Registry agents that optimize connections to the Registries by separating “batch” processes from revenue generating transactions
- Pending transactions and reinitiating service in the event that a Registry can not accept data
- Increased network security
- Secure account authentication
- Real-time, 24/7 monitoring