PHP Authentication with monthly billing
A startup client of mine is looking to launch a SaaS with multiple features/options that would increase/decrease monthly billing. The simplest solution would be best. ...
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Help understanding Amazon Web Services pricing
Hi I am trying to understand Amazon's pricing for regional data transfer... I have an EC2 instance in a us-east region and an S3 bucket in the EU. I am also using a 3rd party service that uses an EC2 instance that is only available in the US. Can someone help to clarify what I am charged and where. Data can take one of 2 routes: 1GB...
Getting Your Customer's Bills in to Bill Pay Sites
We are looking at ways to cut costs, and one idea I had was to push our customer's bills into the Bill Pay systems that banks (and other sites) use. Only thing is, I don't know how to do that? My searches in the past didn't turn up any information for the company side. Can anyone point me in a productive direction? Is there a single cle...
Experience with billing systems
It would be very useful to have feedback on the various API and services that let you bill the customers, so it's possible to compare : Security; Quality of API; Commercial reliability; Number of languages that can use it; General usage of them; Ease of set up; Economic price; Technical price. I thinking here of course of Paypal, Goo...
Magento, add VAT nr to billing address
It is possible in magento to add a VAT nr to your account but in belgium it's more common to add a VAT nr to your billing address.. is this possible in some kind of way ? ...
Billing Client for very small change
Searching on Stackoverflow and writing this question has taken more time than the change I just made for my client just now, but I'll ask anyway. I got an email from a client asking me to remove 2 trade association images from their index page. From the time I received the email, downloaded the page, deleted the lines, and uploaded the...
Login via cURL to Javascript Page?
Hey guys, I'm having some trouble devise a script which attempts a login to a billing portal (Freshbooks) using cURL. I've seen various examples of this online (http://www.trap17.com/index.php/automatic-login-curl%5Ft38162.html) however, none of these examples would with JavaScript. The login page seems to be based on JavaScript and jq...
Wanted: suggestions on how to implement subscription / recurring billing
I would like to set up a premium subscription service for a PHP/MySQL based site. The site is Wordpress based, but highly customized and I'm not looking for a plugin solution necessarily. To oversimplify, I need to query the signed in user's subscription level (paid or free) and tailor the content that gets presented accordingly. I'm lo...
Getting status on canceled/expired credit cards for recurring billing with authorize.net
We're setting up a system that will use the XML API for Automated Recurring Billing with Authorize.net. It looks simple enough to set up a recurring billing. But we have two features that do not seem obvious * providing customers with details on individual payments * providing notification to customers of expired/canceled cards Anyone...
Rails: How to handle data when there's an error on create
So I have a subscription form where a user is simultaneously creating a new account plus subscribing to a monthly plan. So they're entering username, email, password, and all the usual credit card/billing info. But the problem I'm having is say they accidentally enter an incorrect credit card number...what's the best way to handle that...
Will Apple approve an App that asks the user to enter his credit card number?
Hi. From reading discussions I understood that Apple will not approve an App that asks the user to enter his credit card number. Is that correct? Is there any way around it? Thanks- Nir. ...
On Android/Java, how many bytes has a connection downloaded?
An Android app I'm writing involves quite a lot of downloading of content (think podcatcher/RSS). I would like to be able to give the user an indication of how many bytes they've downloaded, so they can make the decision whether they want to use Wifi or not. To this end, I have found a way of counting the number of bytes read by the a...
Help writing a mysql query - this mustve been done 1000 times before but I am struggling..please help?
Update: I am editing my question in the hope of getting a better answer. I see this is not so simple but I cant believe there is not a simpler solution than what has been mentioned so far. I am now looking to see if there is some kind of php, mysql solution to deal with this in the most efficent way. I have modified my question below to ...
How do you bill your web services?
In developing a new web service I haven't been able to find very much information on how companies bill for their web services. Do you bill by request or only certain requests ie) GET or POST? -would these be tracked at the application or server level? Do you bill by bandwidth? -again how would this be tracked on a per user basis Do...
Does anyone have any recommendations for billing systems used with Asterisk?
There are a fair number of open source billing solutions to use with Asterisk, just wondered if anyone has had any good or bad experiences with any of them. ...
Maximum Year in Expry Date of Credit Card
Various online services have different values for maximum year of expiry, when it comes to Credit Cards. For instance: Basecamp: +15 years (2025) Amazon: +20 years (2030) Paypal: +19 years (2029) What is the reasonable maximum here? Are there any official guidelines? ...
Subscription Based Billing
Hello All, I'm putting together a small start up company which will be set up with a subscription based billing model. The bill will go to customers on either a monthly or quarterly basis depending on the end user's preference. My question is two parted: I'm new to online billing and I'm only really aware of Pay Pal when it comes to...
Update payment details using Authorize.net
Hello everybody, When i update the existing subscription info using update_recurring method of autorize.net gateway then payment details(means 'credit card number', 'CVV number' and 'expiry date' ) are not being updated. My code snippet is as follows:- def create_card_subscription credit_card = ActiveMerchant::Billing::CreditCar...
How to copy the shipping address to billing address
Hi all I like to know if I can copy the shipping address to billing address. When a user clicks same as shipping address checkbox. The shipping address value will be copied to billing input field. I got most of the parts done but I am not sure how to copy select menu (states) value to billing address. I really appreciate any helps. M...
What do I do about recurring billing?
This might be a subjective question, but I'll give it a go. There are already a number of questions on SO that revolves around subscription billing management. I am currently working on a SaaS solution that will require a fully automated billing system. What I am not looking for when asking this question is not advice on implementing t...