[asterisk-biz] Billing solutions?

[Nitzan Kon]

Since I've spent most of my career doing unix application support, I
don't believe I'll really need support regardless of the product (or
rather, if it's bad enough that I do need support.. I'll toss it and
move on to a better product, heh!)

The funny thing is, I've been supporting billing and CRM systems for a
major ILEC for 6 years now, yet I wouldn't even consider any of the
applications I've encountered.. too expensive, too inflexible, and
requires WAY too many customizations...

I did like some open source solutions I've seen, but there's so many
out there it's hard to choose.. guess I'll just have to take some time
to try a few out and decide which one works best. Thanks everyone for
your suggestions! Very helpful. :)

  -- Nitzan

--- Mike Hammett <asterisk-biz at ics-il.net> wrote:

> Freeside does a lot and is quite flexible.  However, support in
> getting it 
> installed is less than optimal...  unless you want to pay for it.
> 
> 
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jared Smith" <jsmith at digium.com>
> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" 
> <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Billing solutions?
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 13:10 -0800, Nitzan Kon wrote:
> >> I've seen a lot of open source billing systems out there, some of
> them
> >> look really nice, but they're mostly geared towards calling card
> usage
> >> and it would probably take a lot of effort to convert them to my
> needs.
> >
> > If I were you, I'd check out the open-source Freeside project. 
> They
> > seem to be able to handle just about anything related to billing,
> and I
> > know that the authors have been putting a lot of time into VoIP
> billing
> > features.
> >
> > -- 
> > Jared Smith
> > Community Relations Manager
> > Digium, Inc.
> >
> >
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