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I just updated the site with more details about the implementation. If you are using restful_authentication, it may be as easy as just making 3 one-line changes to your current user code (lib/authenticated_system.rb and app/models/user.rb), depending on how my notion of an Account lines up with how you're managing your customers.

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Sounds promising. Would this be able to support a scheme like this:

Rent n units at price y for x hours, where dollars per y-hour is dependent on the number of units n(volume discounts)? Show the user an interface with their current unit-hours and let them draw down against it?

Uh, I guess so... if you implement it. :)

Kidding aside, you can do whatever you want on top of the base application -- it's a standard Rails app, after all. But what you get "out of the archive" is a bog-standard customer pays $x/mo for access to the app which has some limits based on the value of x, and the limits are up to you to implement (aside from the included one, which limits the number of users that can be associated with a customer's account).

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