Interesting problem. After a quick brainstorm, I thought of a couple of ideas. Whenever a customer signs up for the program, have the module create orders for each of the other months and dump them in a special order status. The tricky part is automatically changing the order status when the orders need attention.

Well I have to do coding for this now, and I've looked at the recurring payments module (cool stuff), but I don't think it's the best way to tackle my business need. I'll physically be shipping a different product of different weight each month, so I think I really need to automatically place an order. I'll be using workflow_ng to setup actions to place the users orders for the 5 months of my program. I need a couple of UC pointers. Here is the psudocode for what I want to do, if there a good ubercart way to do these steps, let me know. I'll have workflow_ng setup to call a custom action like order_month2. It will pass the $user object to the code I write below. My questions are in brackets.

1. Load User Object, would like to load prior shipping address and credit card info. [Is there routine to load a uberccart user record that contatins shipping and cc data?]
2. Create order object and place certain SKU in cart [what is best way to initiate order object and prepare for processing?]
3. Get shipping quote based on sku weight and shipping zip.[how?]
4. Process the Order.[I know we have hook_order for checking status of order, etc. What do I need to have prepared to call order function directly from code
]

What I'm really looking for is an example of how to create a order with just code. If you can point me to that, it would be a big help.
thanks
Jim

I can search for their origintal order number, because they have to order the 1 month's kit before I'll auto do the 2nd month, and I can look for an order with a certain sku to get the right order. Once I load an old order, assuming I unload the product lines and load a new producdt line. Will it generate a new order_id or I do need to do a dbnextid and then order_save to move forward. Also, whhat routine is actually called when they hit that final submit button, I didn't see an obvious one when I browsed uc_order.

Jim