From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 18 10:28:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from super-g.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1EA37B9D9; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:28:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: by super-g.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 09AB6D230; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:28:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.com (Postfix) with SMTP id E378ED201; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:28:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:28:15 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: wellsian Cc: Danny , Phillip Salzman , Bruce Piper , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Billing software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Platypus is very nice for a dialup base, but be prepared for some work if you do lots of web-hosting, leased-lines, or other non-dialup business. Be ready for learning how gross Crystal Reports and NT SQL server are... Had lots of issues getting them to help get their unix account-creation daemon running on FreeBSD... Support generally assumes you have good NT SQL knowledge. If we had to do it again, we'd look further. If your base is all dial though, and you can use it out of the box, it's wonderful. Charles On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, wellsian wrote: > Some might take offense. :) That would be http://. > > Platypus is very NT and MSSQL specific but can handle many thousands of > customers on a well-built system. And Boardtown will even do your > invoicing for very reasonable fees, something nice for small-medium ISPs > who hate waiting for their printer. And folding. Once you get into this > size of system though it's good to do some serious evaluation. There are > many competing products out now and I can say from experience that > discovering you bought the wrong one is a bummer. No, Platypus was not > "the wrong one", it's fine. But compared with 5 years ago there are now > many choices. Check this site and the list for more information: > > http://isp-lists.com/isp-invoicing/ > > Dave > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Danny wrote: > > > www.broadtown.com > > > > Platyus is a very good ISP billing software. > > Shame is hosted on NT thou > > > > > > At 10:24 15/02/00 +0000, Phillip Salzman wrote: > > >Try freeside. I've never actually used it, but i'm told it > > >isn't bad. > > > > > >-- > > >Phillip Salzman > > > > > >On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Bruce Piper wrote: > > > > > >> Can anyone recommend billing software for a (very small) ISP - about 50 > > >> subscribers? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message