Re: [AFMUG] Intuit & Billing

[Jesse DuPont]

We are current Plat customer (in one WISP, using Emerald in another - they're both quite capable). In the Plat WISP, we're billing 6400 subs using the free MSSQL license. No issues.



Jesse DuPont

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On 5/6/21 10:50 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:

Our Plat install uses the Free MS SQL license.  It has some kind of limit on processor power or some such, but if Plat ever hit the limit I couldn't tell.

.....I don't know if MS still has a free version though.  Our Plat install is OLD.

On 5/6/2021 11:54 AM, Sterling Jacobson wrote:

I’m pretty sure even a few years ago when I migrated from Plat to Sonar, that Plat had fixed that internally with an update.

But Chuck could verify that with them.

 

And yes, you will need to host it yourself, unless there is a third party, or they have a recommended hosting third party.

I forget if they had that service or not, but you could ask them about that too.

 

Otherwise I think it does need at least a VM with windows and some form of MS SQL license…

 

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Cameron Crum
Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2021 9:50 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Intuit & Billing

 

I'd be careful of Plat if you want PCI compliance. In the systems I've seen even within the last few months, they are still storing credit cards in plain text in the DB. 

 

On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 10:40 AM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote:

Do I have to host Plat?

 

From: Sterling Jacobson

Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2021 9:05 AM

To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Intuit & Billing

 

I think Platypus is still free up to a certain number of active customers.

 

 

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF
Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2021 8:56 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Cc: Chuck McCown <ch...@go-mtc.com>
Subject: [AFMUG] Intuit & Billing

 

We have exhausted all of our appeals, the only thing they will tell us is that they don’t approve of our “products”.  AKA internet service and that they are happy for us to be a QB customer...

 

So, gonna get a stand alone billing system and just do a monthly journal entry to move over the revenue.

 

Something cheap with the ability for the customer to pay with cards.  Anything free out there that makes their money from the merchant percentage?  I guess I don’t care if it is free, just the lowest overall cost to the company.

 

Was platypus free?  Used it for years at another company.  I don’t need any management of my network just simple recurring billing. 

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