Thursday, January 23 2003 @ 12:29 PM EST Contributed by: MarkAT
The take up of business productivity tools and the use of web-enabled technologies running from Linux platforms is on the increase. Using open source technology to bill customers and collect payments provides a very operationally efficient means of collecting revenue in a timely fashion.
e-Bills, an established web enabled billing system, has just been released in its first commercial version and a new open source (V1.4) is now available. In addition to the array of features already provided this gives users a notes / actions functionality and a payments received capability. Both of these new features make it very interesting for customer contact / billing enquiry centres.
The open source version of e-Bills already contains a dazzling array of features, including:
full customer, contract and product databases;
bills produced as PDF files;
printing, email or fax of bills;
automated bill production;
export of customer and billed data to a spreadsheet.
user login and security
The solution is provided by Asplen Management Ltd who have considerable expertise in the delivery of multi-user highly productive systems.
e-Bills requires PHP and MySQL. A free download (V1.4) is available on www.asplen.co.uk/billing. The commercial version (v2.0) is available upon request.
Asplen Management provides a range of support and customisation packages.
