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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:57:18 -0700

Amazon Web Services

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:47:30 -0700

Wifi Authentication/Accounting With FreeRadius On CentOS 5 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:48:31 -0700

Alepo- Billing, AAA, and Customer Care

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:59:38 -0700

Radius Server software and AAA RADIUS billing systems - Aradial

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:59:38 -0700

Simple Invoices

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:13:51 -0700

Mod radius cdr - FreeSWITCH Wiki

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:12:02 -0700

Can These Startups Beat Paypal?

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:28:36 -0700

Despite the acceptance of credit cards and services like PayPal, the issue of getting money from one person to another online still offers opportunities for innovation. Venture firms are continuing to fund startups that hope to offer better ways to pay online, while the growth of Software as a Service in the enterprise has led to a need for new tools in corporate billing management. Further out, buying items over a mobile phone presents a multibillion-dollar opportunity — if someone can make it easy.

Despite the early-mover advantage PayPal has, and the presence of rival offerings from Internet giant Google, there are plenty of retailers who only accept credit cards for online purchases. That eliminates their ability to sell to those without credit and those concerned with security online. There are a few ways rival online payment services can find success against PayPal, wrote Jim Friedland, an analyst at Cowan & Co. earlier this week, citing a few examples: providing a neutral independent platform (PayPal is owned by web retailer eBay), extending credit to shoppers, and offering lower transaction fees.

And startups are still searching for other opportunities online. Just last week online bill pay startup eBillMe raised $12 million from Canaan Partners and New Celtic Ventures. The company offers vendors an alternative to credit cards by allowing shoppers to receive a bill at their online banking portal. This allows shoppers to avoid putting their personal information on the merchant’s site and allows for a cash, rather than credit, transaction.

But online sales are no longer limited to the PC. U.S. consumers are starting to use their mobile phones to make purchases, and this could be a growing market in the years to come. But there are challenges ahead. Bigger players such as PayPal and credit card companies already offer mobile-payment products, and the current U.S. market for mobile-pay services is still small.

Only 1.5 percent of U.S. consumers have ever used their mobile phones to make a payment, but almost 50 percent are aware that they can do so, according to a survey released this week. The research, commissioned by financial firm Mercatus, predicts that with better services and customer education the percentage of people who will make payments from their mobile phones is likely to grow in five years to 15 percent among those ages 18-30.

The growing use of smartphones and shopping sites optimized for mobiles require payment options that are easier than keying in a 16-digit credit card number. Startups such as angel-backed Billing Revolution and Zong, which launched earlier this month after raising more than $12 million in venture capital, are tackling the problem of buying on your mobile phone. Zong sends purchase information to carriers, who then bill the subscriber for their purchases, and Billing Revolution offers a mobile credit card processing platform. In April, Obopay scored $20 million for its money-transfer-via-mobile efforts.

While the opportunity in mobile is still just cresting the horizon, enterprise customers provide an immediate opportunity for startups seeking to streamline transactions. In March, two startups offering an online billing platform for companies delivering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products raised money. Zuora brought in $6.5 million in first round funding led by Benchmark Capital for its platform. Rival Vindicia announced a $5.6 million round led by DCM and Leader Ventures.

These companies aim to make it easier for SaaS vendors to track and bill all of their customers. They also help customers track and manage multiple software services they might be buying — a task akin to managing household bills from tens or even hundreds of service providers. Tim McAdam, a general partner with Trinity Ventures, says these sorts of billing platforms and ways to track payments still represent a big category and no one has mastered it yet.

With everyone searching for ways to make money online that don’t revolve around advertising, offering seamless but secure online payments will go a long way in enabling alternative business models.

This article also appeared on BusinessWeek.com

Freeside 1.5.8 free download. Freeside is an open-source billing package for ISPs and online businesses. Here are some key features of "Freeside": Billing

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:12:01 -0700

nBill - Home

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:09:50 -0700

nBill is a component which adds further functionality to Mambo or Joomla to enable you to manage financial transactions, orders, and invoicing for your business, and to offer products and services for sale online using order forms that you can build yourself.

www.Solid-State.org | Open Source Billing Solutions | Note to All Solid State Users

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:14:22 -0700

CitrusDB - The Open Source Customer Care and Billing Software

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:14:21 -0700

Freeside billing and trouble ticketing

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:14:21 -0700

Asplen Management Ltd: Business, Open source and e-Bills web-enabled billing solutions

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:14:20 -0700

start [Simple Invoices]

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:59:34 -0700

NEWEDGE - Online Billing and Support Software

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:59:28 -0700

Platypus Billing System

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:01:20 -0700

ISP Billing, customer care and RADIUS/AAA solutions for network providers - IEA Software, Inc.

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:01:29 -0700

Billing Revolution Unveils ‘Single-Click’ Mobile Billing And Payment Service

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:59:38 -0700

Although buying products from your desktop at home has become just as customary as buying products at the store, few have found reason to buy products on their cell phones. In an attempt to buck that trend and make it easier for consumers to buy products from their cell phone, Billing Revolution announced today that it will offer a ’single-click’ billing and payment service that will streamline mobile purchases.

Once consumers are ready to buy something from the Web from a vendor that employs Billing Revolution’s service for payment, they are taken to Billing Revolution’s purchase page where they input credit card information from their phone. Once complete, Billing Revolution automatically sends an SMS receipt to their phone, which contains a link. After clicking that link, authentication is complete and with all future purchases, consumers will need only to click ‘buy’ for a transaction to be completed.

Billing Revolution is taking a risk with this platform that may or may not pay off. Right now, mobile purchases are just a small segment of online commerce and few consumers are willing to buy a product with their cell phones. But if Billing Revolution’s beliefs are right that all it takes is a simple process and the ability to buy products with a single click, it’s in a prime position to capitalize on what it believes is a booming market.

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BambooInvoice: Simple, Beautiful, Open Source, Online Invoicing

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:56:53 -0700

BambooInvoice is free Open Source invoicing software intended for small businesses and independent contractors.

ModernBill Billing Software .:. Client Login

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:04:09 -0700

Joomla! Extensions Directory - ClientExec Bridge

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:46:45 -0700

Billing OpenSER users | ASTPP - Open Source VOIP Billing & Calling Cards for Asterisk

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:47:23 -0700

OpenSer + Asterisk + Astbill - AstBill

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:47:23 -0700

BambooInvoice

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:47:15 -0700

Joomla! Extensions Directory - nBill - A Complete Billing Solution

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:45:03 -0700

phpCOIN.com Main Page

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:48:22 -0700

CDRTool - mediation, accounting and tracing tool for OpenSER - Trac

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:48:05 -0700

[from bushwald] Zuora - Subscription Billing

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:49:59 -0700

"[T]he first on-demand company focused solely on subscription businesses. Our first application, Z-Billing, allows businesses to quickly launch new products and pricing, scale operations, and have all of their transaction data in one [place]."

[from bushwald] Cloud Computing's Identity Crisis: Does a Definition Matter?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:49:34 -0700