In polite words? Dishonest users. a month or two later we would have charge backs. Time/Money spent dealing with them got to the point where it cost more to deal with that kind of user then it did to just stuff the CC's in the trashcan and give free service. Now we do cash/check and those are done daily/weekly in person, not night deposited. We now know instantly if there is a bounce and it does not cost us a bounce fee and a unknown balance.
Now that we have recovered and have expanded I am not even looking for the classic fixed user. I will cover every inch of my service area with a hotspot and let it run like that. I still have many people who want the classic fixed service but more then half of them come from hotspot users. What I want is a service that handles the back end billing and cuts me a check each week. This does not seam to very hard, or worth 50% of said billing. Wireless Orbit, and all the others I have looked at, have a crazy low session limit for the entry level accounts. Id like to try them out, but 1000 sessions would be less then 2 or 3 days. One user can generate 50+ sessions a day. I could always increase the session timeouts but then risk people landing on a existing session. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Sam Tetherow <[email protected]> wrote: > How so? Been thinking about this for a couple of locations and am > curious what issues you ran into. > > Sam Tetherow > Sandhills Wireless > > On 12/9/10 10:18 AM, Jeromie Reeves wrote: >> I do not take CC's directly anymore. They about put us out of >> business. I might have to start again but would rather not. >> >> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:02 AM, rwf<[email protected]> wrote: >>> MT Hotspot >>> Wireless Orbit (AAA and Billing) >>> Authorize.net (Credit card stuff) >>> >>> We keep 100% (except for the credit card charge) >>> We are 1000% satisfied >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >>> Behalf Of Jeromie Reeves >>> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 5:42 PM >>> To: WISPA General List >>> Subject: [WISPA] Automated Hotspot >>> >>> What are you using for automated hotspot user generation and billing? >>> I have had my own scripts for user generation but still needed to do >>> billing. I am looking at various 'cafe' and hotspot setups but some want >>> $50/mo, others want up to 30%, etc, which seams high to handle a login page >>> and billing. >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
