From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Aug 8 22:54: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from host07.rwsystems.net (kasie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E81D14E29 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 22:54:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwyatt@RWSystems.net) Received: from kasie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.3]) (2034 bytes) by host07.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 00:38:41 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-24) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 00:38:41 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt To: Mark Linvill Cc: Chris Cook , Martin , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 queries 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 Sage advice. Access can be a nifty front-end for hacking data into MySQL, though. 8{) If you are looking for an industrial-grade run-your-business billing package, IMHO you can't do better than BillMax. You can see for yourself at http://www.billmax.com and form your own opinions. Developed on Apache, MySQL, and FreeBSD, it is available for other environments like Sun and Linux. Your users like the email invoicing and your techs will like the speed and ease-of-use. Not as cheap as Access, but that's a feature in my book. It replaced a hell of a quickbooks scripting every month! The customer updates (including tunable automatic shutoffs for unpaid accounts) are pushed to the Radius server and web/mail servers. It can be organizational superglue for an ISP. - Jy@ On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Mark Linvill wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Chris Cook wrote: [several things snipped] > >> 3) (but you only said there was two ; ) Best/cheapest billing software ? > > > >We rigged something up in access... easy to do and very customizable. > > No way in hell I would trust my mission critical billing to a toy like > MS Access. IMHO Access is a prototyping tool if anything. > > Spend a little money up front for a turn-key billing package. In a > year or two if you have any growth, you'll really appreciate it. [ more snipped ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message