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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 13:18:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Thomas Arnold <tom@inna.net>
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Subject: ISP Billing Software
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ANyone have suggestions for reasonably priced ISP billing software?

I've looked at :
URIBS (User Registration, Information, and Billing System) 
User Tracking & Accounting (RTD Systems) 
BATS ISP Accounting (AstroArch Consulting) 
Internet Billing (CoolWorld.Com) 
Emerald ISP Support Package 
IAF - Internet Administration Framework 
InterBiller 
ISPBill 
AIMS 

Of all these the only one I've seen that has fit the bill at all was URIBS, but
it is self described as "This is not a shrink-wrapped plug-n-play piece of
commercial software."  $750 buys you a web front-end and scripts to handle
alot of things, but it doesn't give me the neat features of packages like
Coolworld's InternetBilling - ISP monitor. ISP Monitor looks exactly like
a beast I've been toying with that I call SSD ( Secure Script Daemon )
that allows you to securely pass information to and run scripts on remote
machines and get back data from them.

Http://n2h2.com/URIBS has the information on the URIBS package as well as
links to all the above mentioned packages.

Is there interest in putting toegether a Freely available ISP Billing
package?  I'm working on SSD as well as a program to compare Radius USERS
file with the passwd file and our QuickBooks database to see who isn't in
what and eventually fix it, although I'm going to be sorely tempted to
replace QuickBooks.  I want a Web front-ended system to add/delete/bill
users so that its no longer client platform dependent.  

Just my ramblings.  Be interested to hear what others are doing.

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