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I worked on a fairly complex invoicing system and couple of things not (directly) mentioned:

  * Forward billing vs billing in arrears. We had to treat different customers differently. 
  * Tiered billing -- e.g., if a customer used > X amount of services, they got a discount.
  * Special rules around when billing starts for new customers (e.g., no bill for the first month). 
There are probably more I've forgotten. We billed by data usage, mostly, and I used to say that their bill was the integral of the customer's usage graph over a month -- which was true -- but that explanation didn't gain much traction with the accounting folks.



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