Freeside 1.5.8 review
DownloadFreeside is an open-source billing package for ISPs and online businesses. Here are some key features of "Freeside": Billing
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Freeside is an open-source billing package for ISPs and online businesses.
Here are some key features of "Freeside":
Billing
Flexibile pricing and rating plans including anniversary, pro-rating/1st of month, free introductory periods, usage based from RADIUS, built-in session monitor or any SQL query. Plugin system to easily add new pricing plans.
Pre-paid cards
Typeset Postscript/PDF invoices and email invoicing.
Flexible tax system supporting region-based taxes, multiple, named taxes, monthly exemptions ("texas tax"), different tax classes for different products, etc.
Real-time credit card processing including AVS and CVV2/CVC2/CID with TrustCommerce, Vital Processing Services, ECHO, Authorize.Net, LinkPoint, Network1 Financial, Merchant Commerce, Cardstream, PaymentsGateway.Net, Bank of America eStores, iAuthorizer, CyberSource, St.George IPG, eSelectPlus, Secure Hosting UPG, Beanstream, 2CheckOut.com, SurePay, Jettis, eSec, Ingenico OCV, PaymentOne PayConnect, Verisign Payflow Pro, or any other processor supported by Business::OnlinePayment
Export batches to any processor.
Customer self-service
Web interface
Online signups with real-time credit card/echeck authorization and instant provisioniing.
IEAK support to autoconfigure customer's dialup networking, browser bookmarks, mail settings, etc.
Self-service server including invoice viewing, one-time and recurring payments, card changes, etc.
Customizable HTML templates.
API available to write your own self-service pages or applications.
Provisioning
Plugin system to easily add new types of provisioning.
Runs configurable shell commands via SSH with defaults to maintain accounts on Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc.
Provision mailboxes and RADIUS accounts to LDAP
Works with FreeRADIUS, ICRADIUS (including RADIUS groups) or Radiator to authenticate directly from SQL databases, or exports standard text files for RADIUS servers such as Livingston or Cistron.
Provision to UNIX passwd/shadow/master.passwd, vpopmail, dovecot or Courier SQL, Cyrus, Communigate Pro, Critical Path, InfoStreet, Top Email, or Everyone.net.
Virtual mailbox support. Exports Sendmail virtusertable and sendmail.cw files, Qmail virtualdomains, rcpthosts and recipientmap files, or Postfix aliases and virtual files.
Domain and virtual host support. Exports BIND and Apache configuration files..
Provision outsourced accelerator services such as Artera Turbo and others.
Reports
Aging (overdue invoice) reports, A/R Aging summary
Payment and credit reports
Sales, Credits and Receipts summary and graph
Prepaid Income (Unearned revenue)
Sales tax liability
Package and service definition reports including active/suspended/cancelled counts
Agent reports including active/suspended/cancelled customer counts
Resellers and referrals
Track customers by reseller/agent. Limit the packages a particular agent or class of agents may sell.
Reseller self-service interface to add and modify customers, view total active/suspended/cancelled, etc.
Customer-to-customer referrals and commissions
Tech
Written in Perl and easily customizable.
Uses Perl's DBI allowing use of almost any database backend to store data. We currently recommend PostgreSQL.
Full source code is available under the GNU GPL.
Web-based interface (including most of the configuration).
Real-time session monitor for RADIUS or hotel/cafe-style time limits
What's New in This Release:
This release has updated prepaid support in conjunction with RADIUS.
The integrated RT trouble-ticketing module has been updated.
Several pages in the backoffice interface have been rewritten, including editing of customer billing info and batch payment entry.
Resellers can now be configured with a per-reseller payment gateway, and Maestro/Switch/Solo credit cards are supported.
Exports were added to integrate with CPanel, Radiator RADIUS (native schema), and the everyone.net outsourced mail service.
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