Billing systems

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I am looking for information regarding ISP billing systems and feel this
list is a great place to start my research. I want to evaluate next
generation billing systems that have the following capabilities at a minimum

IP support
Usage based billing
Robust Security Architecture
Real time reporting
Creation and management of user accounts
Rapid provisioning of service offerings
Activity tracking
Rating
Advanced billing capabilities
International capabilities (Spanish a must)

I would like to know what vendors play in this space and pro's and con's of
any vendors you out there in the industry may have evaluated. Sample RFP's
would be extremely helpful but I know that is a stretch. At a minimum,
vendor names would be great. Thanks in advance!!!

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I am looking for information regarding ISP billing systems and feel this
list is a great place to start my research. I want to evaluate next

isp-ceo@isp-ceo.com is a great list for this kind of stuff,
other lists are also relevant at www.isp-lists.com

BTW: We rolled our own, using PERL and Sybase (11.0.3 for Linux),
It doesn't do bandwidth accounting (yet) or Spanish (probably never).
It's not hard, and I really think that the capabilities of such systems
are crucial to what an internet provider does and how they do it. Hence
our approach. My apologies for being a little off-topic for Nanog.
--Mike--

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On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:00:18AM -0500, Robbie Harrell scribbled:

I am looking for information regarding ISP billing systems and feel this
list is a great place to start my research. I want to evaluate next
generation billing systems that have the following capabilities at a minimum

www.iplanet.com ? It's a Sun company..

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ISP invoicing issues are discussed on the mailing list:
isp-invoicing@isp-invoicing.com

mike harrison wrote:

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You'll find a lot of this in Freeside, which may well still
  be the world's only open source ISP billing software.

  http://www.sisd.com/freeside/ has info.

  But yeah, like others said, there are better lists for this.

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  You'll find a lot of this in Freeside, which may well still
  be the world's only open source ISP billing software.

  http://www.sisd.com/freeside/ has info.

  But yeah, like others said, there are better lists for this.

#vYeah, Ivan rocks! He should check out http://www.ruby-lang.org/
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Oooops... :wink:
-joe

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See:
http://www.billingworld.com/
Specifically:
http://www.billingworld.com/Showguide/2000/ISPBilling.htm

-Hank

I am looking for information regarding ISP billing systems and feel this
list is a great place to start my research.I want to evaluate next
generation billing systems that have the following capabilities at a minimum

IP support
Usage based billing
Robust Security Architecture
Real time reporting
Creation and management of user accounts
Rapid provisioning of service offerings
Activity tracking
Rating
Advanced billing capabilities
International capabilities (Spanish a must)

I would like to know what vendors play in this space and pro's and con's of
any vendors you out there in the industry may have evaluated.Sample RFP's
would be extremely helpful but I know that is a stretch.At a minimum,
vendor names would be great.Thanks in advance!!!

Hank Nussbacher