jbilling

Easier to install, easier to use and more powerful... some serious coding took place in the past two or so months for the arrival of jbilling 1.0.4. A feature that was long requested was an improvement on how payments relate to invoices, and to allow ... [More] linking a payment to an invoice (and removing the link) from the web-based interface. Also included was a way to configure the batch process directly in the file jbilling.properties. Before, you had to setup a CRON or AT on your server to daily run the batch process. This process checks if the billing generation has to take place, among many other automatic functions: invoice reminders, payment processing, etc... Last but not least is the inclusion to the web-based interface to configure business rules plug-ins. This allows you to easily configure integration with payment processors to handle credit cards. [Less]

With the release of version 1.0.2, you can run jbilling in the most popular database engines: DB2, hypersonic, MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and Sybase. You do not need to be a database expert; jbilling comes by default with a hypersonic database ... [More] already initialized for you. jbilling already had great scalability by allowing clustering of multiple servers. By running jbilling with a world-class database engine, such as Oracle, you can be sure that your billing system is scalable and robust. [Less]

A new release of jbilling is available for download under the version number 1.0.5. This is mostly a maintenance release that fixes a number of minor bugs. The highlight is the improved support for Oracle. Some database objects have been renamed ... [More] , among other changes, to successfully complete a set of unit testing running jbilling on OracleXE. Last but not least, the 'Getting Started' guide has been expanded with a tutorial called 'My first invoice'. Some say that open source means bad documentation. We say that in billing software, the best is free. [Less]

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!