i'm not the right person to respond about accounting for services that each hotspot user consumes, but i do have experience managing the customization of a decent back-end billing system called BillMax, that is most commonly used by small ISPs.
From: "johnson jeff"
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 16:21:01 -0800
Subject: [BAWUG] Hotspot Billing Systems
What are the available billing system options for someone wanting to set up hotspots and charge users? Do "off-the-shelf" options exist?
see:
http://www.billmax.com/
their documentation is *great* and most of the code is available for customization (supports unix/linux o/s only). the license fee is a one-time charge, depending on the number of users (as opposed to recurring annual fees). it's free for the first 100 users, and roughly $1/user at a volume of 10K users. i paid a developer a few thousand dollars to customize it exactly to our needs. we mostly used it as a CRM system, since we could administer everything through the web, provide customers with their own personal web portal of services and support, and include billing when relevant. connecting the accounting of WISP usage to the customer database is surely a solvable problem, given a good developer.
good luck,
kg
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