Hi I am at a point with my webhosting company that I need to decide on which way should I go with billing my customers. Currently I have a merchant account where I can setup monthly billing on a persons credit card. The problem with doing this is that when a person make price changes to their account I have to go thru 3 steps that take about five minutes of my time. The first step is to charge the card the new charges, edit the monthly billing to charge the new charges, and then update the information in an access data I have created. Well to cut and past all this info in each time is time consuming.

I have been thinking about setup up the credit card process where the customer can come to my site once a month and input thier own credit card when I send them an invoice this given them the ability to pay with credit card, paypal, mailing a check, and possible much more.

Can anyone tell me what they are currently doing to get around this dilemma?

billadmin.com ?

Yea, but the problem with them is cpanel is not compatible with cobalt raqs.

Also do you konw if it is a script that you place on your server or is it a program that runs off their site.?

It is a hosted solution, so it stays on our secure servers.

Also, you don't NEED Cpanel to use it... you will just lose the automatic account setup feature. How do you currently setup new accounts? Do you manually run a script on the server or is it all done through a web interface?

I may be able to add in support for RAQ's in the next version... if I can find someone with adequate experience who is willing to help out.

Regards,
Matt
matt@billadmin.com

I use a script solution that I have been working on modifying to my needs.

I'm still a novice with that so I am kinda stumbling thru. Once the users account is setup they have access to change certain things in their control panel.

Also there are a few programs that I think making the script work greate for adding/removing domains and users the only problem is the DNS I am not sure at this time how to extract a users records if they cancel. But I don't think that would be hard to do.

[Edited by tymonhall on 03-03-2001 at 03:23 PM]

Is this a freely available script solution? If so, I would be interested in checking it out to see how it works.

If anyone else with a RAQ is interested in helping with a BillAdmin module for that system, let me know!

Matt

Well count me in on the intress. I cant find the orginal script that the person used but it is a basic php script that writes to a flat file then a perl script come around every 15 minutes from a cron job and process the flat file. The program uses linux cadduser, caddomain, with those programs you can edit create a site. If I find the orginals I will email you a copy of them.