Dear Gurus,
I'm currently developing a web application for one of my clients. This client requested a small billing module. The client istelf is small SIP provider. There are several pricing items, plans, etc. All they different types of payment like onetime, monthly, annual. Are there any best practices, good books, articles on blling systems architecure?
Btw the web app based on symfony framework.
Any help is appreciated!
There is usually nothing "small" about a billing system.
I just ran across something called citrusdb. You might want to go through it to decide if you want to build something or just integrate theirs.
Barring that, depending on their business they might be better served just using QuickBooks in combination with an online ordering / payment system.
Some Google Books? Some are available with extended previews, that can be helpful.
http://books.google.com/books?id=lOImNtO96L0C
Flow Charts?
www.google.com/images?q=billing+process+flow+chart
You can also get some useful info from audit programs, that describe the kind of things you (or your system, probably) will be asked to produce. Ctrl-F Billing:
www.dcaa.mil/standardguidance.htm
These are very general, and not very specific to any programming language. Hope it helps :)
ed. well I can't post more than one hyperlink, since I'm obviously retarded as a noob, so there, you have to copy paste them :P