how do billing systems work in webhosting?

Originally posted by Alphavillage
how do billing systems work in webhosting?

What do you mean how do they work in web hosting? How someone orders? How it sets up? Which program?

A little more detail would certainly help...

It's generally just a wrapper around the control panel you are using. They also have different payment gateway options, be it forwarding to 2Checkout, or doing a raw credit card transaction with a merchant gateway like Authorize.Net.

I think he may mean charging customers and collecting payments ?

I have programmed my own system, when the customer pays via PayPal subscription, PayPal will notify me when payments are received, rejected or cancelled, I then update mys system and add cancellations to a list. When customers pay via Cheque or in case i loose an email from PayPal, I will run another admin page (cron job) and it will notify me and the customer of late payments. I can also lookup customers who will pay in the next 7 days.

Generally my problem is concept of those billing system,

i think i should have one merchant eccount and another biling

system according to Webhosting business like client exe ok and

i think i should swithch these two systems , am i right?

Alphavillage,

See my post in your other thread... You want to integrate your merchant account (read: gateway account) with your billing application, or else you are going to be doing a lot of double-booking.

Hope this helps!

They usually work by automating the account creation process after charging the customer, ex. in WHM you have the Remote Key, allowing a script to access WHM.