Hi Paul, Thanks for replying to this thread.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Paul Brislen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, thought I'd chuck in my two cents' worth here. > > This isn't about making money No, I would say it's about saving money. I have no problem with that however and think that as a business it's a good thing. > by forcing every customer to buy a paper > bill - it's about removing the paper bill altogether. I have no problem with that at all. I'm curious about the validity of not actually sending any kind of invoice at all. I see you address this further below. > Customers can see their bill for free on the website. Every customer > will receive either an email alert or a TXT that includes how much the Can the system be set up to include the invoice (either PDF, PDF, txt, or in the e-mail body) with the e-mail alert? This would solve every issue I have with the new system. > bill is for and when it's due (the most a lot of our customers want) > and the website will store your bills for 13 months so you can go back > and check and print out just the one you need should the need arise. > > As someone's noted, we were printing thousands of bills a month (we > have more than 2 million customers these days in both fixed and > mobile) and that's a lot of printing and a lot of cost. We moved to > online billing some time ago but there's a hard core of customers who > haven't stopped their paper bills: this will force the issue for them. > > Legally speaking, yes it's fine. We checked. Our fixed line business Can you hunt out a link on an authoritative site (IRD?) that backs this up and post it here? -- Regards Gold Evolved Development +64 21 248-4653 http://evolved.net.nz/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
