jbilling

jbilling is now the first result when searching for 'billing' in both the 'Enterprise' and 'Financial' project categories in sourceforge.net. Last week's activity was 99,37%, and we keep adding downloads at a good pace. This is great news for a project that went live about two months ago, let's keep up the good work!

A new maintenance release with minor bug fixes is now available for download. The most significant change for users is how the web services API handles orders. It now applies all the business rules plug-ins associated with the caller. Developers will ... [More] see significant improvements in the source package, with a set of JUnit tests based on web services. This will be followed by an update on the on-line documentation related to building and testing from source. A perk for our Australian users (and there are a lot of them), jbilling now includes the Australian dollar as currency bundled with the standard distribution. Enjoy! [Less]

A new version of jbilling is available for download, with plenty of new features. Security is one of the big winners: credit card information and passwords can now be stored encrypted in the database. There are new reports related to transactions and ... [More] the core has been upgraded with an event API that allow us to easily implement new business rules with a 'subscriber-observer' pattern that we like a lot. The web services API got a good deal of more functionality as well, but with more than 20 new features and enhancements, it'd take too long to list them here. Better download jbilling 1.0.7 now and take a look to the release notes. read more [Less]

A new version of jbilling is available for download, with plenty of new features. Security is one of the big winners: credit card information and passwords can now be stored encrypted in the database. There are new reports related to transactions and ... [More] the core has been upgraded with an event API that allow us to easily implement new business rules with a 'subscriber-observer' pattern that we like a lot. The web services API got a good deal of more functionality as well, but with more than 20 new features and enhancements, it'd take too long to list them here. Better download jbilling 1.0.7 now and take a look to the release notes. One last note, jbilling now requires Java 1.6 (due to the new encryption functionality). This is just the first step towards migrating to Java EE 1.4 ... coming soon! It is quite amazing to see how jbilling is growing in popularity. A number of volunteers are now paid consultants and we have to work hard to keep up with demand. I think that a new standard is emerging here for open source enterprise billing, and it is called jbilling. [Less]

A new version of jbilling is available for download, with plenty of new features. Security is one of the big winners: credit card information and passwords can now be stored encrypted in the database. There are new reports related to transactions and ... [More] the core has been upgraded with an event API that allow us to easily implement new business rules with a 'subscriber-observer' pattern that we like a lot. The web services API got a good deal of more functionality as well, but with more than 20 new features and enhancements, it'd take too long to list them here. Better download jbilling 1.0.7 now and take a look to the release notes. [Less]

Optaros, an international consulting company focused in open source, has recently produced a catalogue of open source projects where the leading 260 projects are listed. The objective of Optaros' Open Source Catalogue 2007 is to give IT decision ... [More] makers navigation support by listing the most relevant, useful and enterprise-ready open source platforms, components, frameworks and solutions in an easy-to-read overview. We are glad to see jbilling included in this catalogue, with top marks on functionality and maturity. Indeed, jbilling was the only billing project included in the catalogue and the only project with such high marks in the 'CRM, ERP and E-Commerce' category. On functionality, jbilling rated 'excellent - the functionality requirement of a typical midsize or large enterprise are covered', while on maturity it was 'Very mature - strong, high quality solution, stable and meeting advanced performance expectations'. [Less]

A new maintenance release with minor bug fixes is now available for download. The most significant change for users is how the web services API handles orders. It now applies all the business rules plug-ins associated with the caller. Developers will ... [More] see significant improvements in the source package, with a set of JUnit tests based on web services. This will be followed by an update on the on-line documentation related to building and testing from source. A perk for our Australian users (and there are a lot of them), jbilling now includes the Australian dollar as currency bundled with the standard distribution. Enjoy! [Less]

Software is only as good as its documentation and billing software is not an exception. We are now releasing the official jbilling user guide in PDF format. This is a full revision of the old on-line documentation to bring it up-to-date with the ... [More] latest features, screen-shots and plenty of examples. This document is now for sale at 9.95$, a true bargain that would be unheard of in billing software with commercial licenses. The revenue from the sales will go towards the improvement of jbilling, giving users great value and the chance to help the project. With 12 chapters and well over 100 pages, the user guide goes over the main features of jbilling in detail: how the billing process works, how to deal with invoices and payments, how to configure the system to address common billing scenarios, etc. [Less]