Re: Billing System

From: Scott Lambert (lambert_at_lambertfam.org)
Date: 12/09/03

  • Next message: Customer Service: "RE: Billing System"
    Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:25:34 -0500
    To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
    
    

    On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:04:56PM -1000, George Fontaine wrote:
    > I highly recommend you stay away from Billmax. They ripped me off for
    > $10,000 and never delivered a working accounting system. They made also
    > sorts of promises that they would convert our existing system (quickbooks)
    > and never delivered. That was over 3 years ago.
     
    And I had nothing but good experiences.
     
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
    > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Scott Lambert
    > Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:06 AM
    > To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
    > Subject: Re: Billing System
    >
    >
    > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 10:52:18PM +0200, Dave Johnson wrote:
    > > Can anyone recommend an Accounting / Billing System for ISPs
    >
    > My favorite so far is BillMax. Runs on FreeBSD, uses lots of standard
    > *nix stuff that you are used to supporting. Completely web interfaced,
    > ie. use it from anywhere and get your work done. Getting custom reports
    > is easy enough if you have an SQL capable programmer on staff.
    >
    > My current system is Platypus. I pretty much hate it from the sysadmin
    > perspective after having gotten accustomed to how nicely BillMax
    > worked. I do realize that many of my issues with Platypus are related
    > to the less than complete way in which the former technical staff here
    > implemented it. I still have a lack of confidence in any product which
    > sits on top of Windows. But that's a personal predudice.
    >
    > If you just want opensource, freside might be an option. I have no
    > experience with it, but at least it has my two favorite features of
    > BillMax, web interface and runs on *nix.

    -- 
    Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
    lambert@lambertfam.org      
    _______________________________________________
    freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list
    http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp
    To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
    

  • Next message: Customer Service: "RE: Billing System"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: Billing System
      ... it's slow and for some reason stopped supporting mysql ... Subject: Billing System ... > perspective after having gotten accustomed to how nicely BillMax ... I do realize that many of my issues with Platypus are related ...
      (freebsd-isp)
    • Re: Billing System
      ... > Can anyone recommend an Accounting / Billing System for ISPs ... My favorite so far is BillMax. ... My current system is Platypus. ... web interface and runs on *nix. ...
      (freebsd-isp)