Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Running a Web Hosting Business : Dealing with Pro-rating via Instabill/Revecom

[Skeptical]

I'm just wondering, how do you guys deal with pro-rating a client's bills when using Instabill or Revecom?

For example, user A signs up on the 15th of the month while user B signs up on the 23rd. You charge $20 a month on hosting. How do you handle it? or does Instabill/Revecom have such tools already available?

[alpha]

hmm, last time i checked... neither Instabill nor Revecom has a pro-rated feature...

but why would you need them? as you stated in your example, Revecom/Instabill will just charge user A on the 15th and charge user B on the 23rd. i thought this was how it worked with Revecom/Instabill? if im wrong, please correct me

[Get-Hosted.com]

No real need to pro-rate with a instabill type of service. They bill your customers for you. Pro-rating is more for when you don't want to have to manually bill different customers eahc day of the month. Instead you just set aside 1-2 days of the month to handle billing.

[Skeptical]

How about if a customer cancels his account halfway into a month that he'd already paid for? Do you just go in and manually credit a refund?

[Walter]

If he cancels on June 16th why should he get money back for June 17th to 30th? Just think of a newspaper abo...

[David@Digisurge]

I asked a similar question about a week ago.

I have emailed both Instabill and Revecom and neither offer a "pro-rate" option. You would have to have your own merchant account to do prorating.