billing

SaaS recurring billing to use with my Ruby app?

I'm trying to add a SaaS recurring billing solution to my app, which is written in Ruby, we use the Sinatra framework and things like Riak. The nice to have would be: A RESTful API Ruby API Returns and get JSON data (since with that will be easy to integrate with Riak) Cheap (we are a startup, so no enterprise solutions) So far I wa...

Recurring Billing with hosted pages? Spreedly v Chargify v Cheddargetter v Recurly

Anyone from the UK and used any recurring billing provider? Looking for the easiest way for customers to pay monthly by credit card for our web app. So hosted pages are definitely the easiest to get started - don't want to have to worry about PCI complement. The price doesnt matter too much, they're all pretty similar. Anyone have any ...

Lipipq(iptables) . How do I redirect captured packet to another address with iptables queue?

Hi Developers, I don't know how to solve my problem. Is it possible to redirect captured packet with ipq_set_verdict()? I want to redirect unauthorized users to login page. Please see my code: The packets are accepted and my browser opens requested page(not changed destination address) void main() { struct ipq_handle* h; i...

How can I do monthly subscription credit card billing?

I've written a subscription based web app that I want to charge (by credit card) a monthly fee. There are 3 different plans and once they sign up, they should be billed that amount, automatically, every month until they cancel. Is there an easy way to set this up (some sort of online service maybe?). ...

Secure web module for paid subscribtion

Hello everyone, I'm building a website (a community web site like digg) but we will soon release a new feature that people will need to pay for. Right now, our website is in pure C# in .NET, very simple pages with some AJAX. When the member log in, there is no HTTPS. Everything is check with session and the internal validation that I d...

Facebook APP Monetization

Can anyone tell me what is the best way to monetize a facebook app?I have made a facebook app, it is ready for launch, people will be required to buy points dough, what is the best way to do that?I know there are a few sites that help with this like Super Rewards ,Offerpal,etc. but which is the most reliable and safe? ...

Does somebody work on DOC1 designer tool by Pitney bowes?

Hi, does anyone work on DOC1 designer tool, a Pitney bowes product. We use it at work for bill composition and later used on Mainframes. Please help me in finding out the best career path by means of this. Your help is highly appreciative. ...

Can a django model have two abstract classes?

I have this models: class BillHeader(models.Model): billno = models.IntegerField(primary_key=True, blank=True) class BillData(models.Model): price = models.DecimalField(_('Price'), max_digits=12, decimal_places=2) amount = models.DecimalField(_('Amount'), max_digits=6, decimal_places=2) [... rest of the model ...] ...

what's a good general purpose billing / recurring membership system?

something open source, or inexpensive... preferably in php, other languages will be considered. I'm looking mostly for clean code, a nice place to build out from... I don't need any CMS features. Thanks, -Eric ...

Implementing our billing system in rails: Paypal, pure Merchant Account / Gateway, or something like Chargify ?

I've seen a few questions related to API specifics and paypal. Generally speaking if I'm going to offer my rails app as a subscription based service, what are the pros and cons of the different payment systems available on rails? My main concerns are: Avoiding PCI compliance, and not storing any credit cards on our servers Easy API w...

How can I bill within an application

I've been programming for years, and I've also done a few professional programming projects. I recently had a friend ask about creating an e-commerce site, but I had to turn her down because I had never worked on a web application that can bill. I also might need to write a subscription-based web service in the future. My question is, ho...

Google App Engine - Bulkloading using RemoteApiServlet - Billing

I am using the App Engine RemoteApiServlet and the Bulkloader to load data into the datastore. As the dataset that i was uploading was huge (a million entities) I enabled "Billing" on my application and set the max. daily budget to $5 and later to $10. After i loaded the entities, using the App Engine admin console, i determined that i ...

Metering and billing azure costs to end-users

I'm designing a Web-service in Azure. Is it possible to have the actual Azure platform usage costs metered per end-user? And does Azure provide billing services to end-users? ...

Billing plugins for rails

Hi there, We want to add billing capabilities to our rails-driven web application. I've come across two plugins that do that - Service Merchant (which is free) and SaaS Rails kit (which costs money). Does someone have some experience with these plugins (or others with the same functionality)? which one would you recommend? Thanks! ...

Analyze SVN/GIT repos to determine how much work is actually done?

One of my clients is using an out-of-state programmer for a project. He can't really figure out how much work the programmer is actually doing, so he's afraid that money is potentially going down the drain. What I'm wondering, is it possible to use a SVN or GIT repository to calculate or estimate how much real work is actually being don...

What would you call the time you spend adopting a new piece of software?

I'm working on a project for a university where I take a current piece of open source software and adapt it to their personal needs. This involves some time learning the layout and implementation of the source code I'm going to be modifying. What would you call this? Bonus points for succinct phrases and/or words. Thanks! ...

Flex and Amazon Payments

I am trying to get amazon payments working w/ my flex app, as shown here: http://miti.pricope.com/2009/07/11/using-amazon-flexible-payment-system-with-flex/ I've done exactly as he says, I've downloaded the files & changed the access key & secret key. When I run it on localhost or my production server I get "Signature did not match" Wh...

Google Analytics not working 100% with Magento

Hi, I need to solve a problem that the e-commerce report on analytics page, is showing 30% less sales than the Magento report. I was wondering where I put the analytics code with the sales transactions? In the success page after the payment? On our e-commerce, we use a third party billing app that makes the user navigate to another p...

Billing system best practices

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...

Amount to show on a bill form

My company is currently setting up an online billing portal for our customers. I was curious as this question went back and forth a bit between developers and testers: When showing the input form for the amount a customer wishes to pay, do you set the default to be the max amount owed by the customer? Taking a look around at sites when I...