Re: ISP Billing Software / RODOPI
Hello Kirk
On 25 Feb 2003 at 14:08, Kirk Ismay wrote:
> Finally, one thing I've been considering is to use SQL-Ledger
> (http://www.sql-ledger.org/) as a core accounting system and re-write my
> recurring billing and provisioning programms as add on modules. I can't
> promise that I'd be able to do this, but if there are interested
> co-developers / potential users email me off list. I'll use those as an
> argument to not abandon our in house code and open-source the project.
> Thank you all for your time and input.
We are also looking at this route. Currently we run a Windows based
system for generating recuring invoices and tracking customer
payments. We use SQL-Leger to keep the "books". Monthly totals from
the Windows system are carried across into SQL-Ledger manually.
The SQL-Ledger replaced a commercial Windows accounting package.
Since we changed, we have never looked back. In terms of usability
and flexibility, SQL-Ledger is tops!
Now we are rewriting the Windows stuff with a postgres back end and
python cgi interface. This will make calls to the SQL-Ledger API to
generate the recurring invoices. The invoices, statements and
payments will be handled by SQL-Ledger. (Currently our Windows app
does that).
My guess is that everybody has their own specific requirements. Our
focus is on the business market. We do not have a direct interface
between our accounting system and our radius servers. We don't use
traffic statistics to generate invoices and we do not have an "on-
line" interface for customers. We also do not take credit card
payments. So we wont be looking at any of these "features" soon.
I suspect that we will be stretching SQL-Ledger's abilities, but I
have every confidence that we can deal with any shortcommings that
bother us. Development on SQL-Ledger is very active and most of the
limitations are already being addressed.
If there are others working on similar projects, I would be happy to
co-operate.
Regards
Ian
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