Notes of concern with Google Checkout: you cannot get a Google Checkout Merchant/Seller account unless you have a registered business in USA and/or an American SSN number (CDN equivalent to SIN). If anyone with a CDN address and a CDN SIN has been able to acquire one, please let us know how (if you have done this 100% legally!).
Beginning January 1, 2008, you will be charged 2% + $0.20 per transaction -- which beats any "checkout" merchant services out there. If you purchase certain services from Google such as their adwords, you **may** be entitled to free transactions. Though Google Checkout is amazing and their API is amazing -- its not for us Canadians yet, who has only single citizenship. So sad to say any CDN resident who does not have a business in the US or a SSN from the mighty US of A, will have to wait till GoogleCheckout is available for CDN residents. Cheers! Reza. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aloysius Thevarajah Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Duane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Bruce Nik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Asterisk Mailing" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] A2Billing install script Duane, I would recommend Google Checkout for the payment option. There is no transaction fee. Paypal charge 3% of the payment fees. Google Checkout API - http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/ Thanks Lloyd On 10/30/07, Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bruce Nik wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I have been working on my own A2Billing script in the past couple of > days. I couldn't find a working one on the net. So, I thought I should > share > this with everyone else since it's such a pain to go through all the > documentation for A2Billing installation. > > > > I have tested it with Trixbox 2.3.0.4 and it installs without any > problems. Theoretically, it should work fine with a vanilla install of > Asterisk too but I didn't test that yet. I would like to hear feedback > about > that as I mostly work with Trixbox. > > > > http://a2billing2asterisk.googlepages.com > > I was kind of in the same boat, I just wanted a really simply > billing/account setup for a shared house, I ended up coding something > myself and you are pretty much welcome to any of the code you like, it's > just a couple of PHP AGI scripts that hook into MySQL, it would be > trivial to modify these scripts to be FastAGI, but in this case there > isn't much in the way of high volumes of calls :) > > It just has an account userid, balance and PIN in one table, an imported > rate sheet in another table and CDR table. > > The CDR table is also used to do a little LCR. > > The phones are either shared and calls via these phones are prompted for > the PIN or phones are setup in their own rooms/areas and only used by > that person, in which case the PIN is hard coded in the sip.conf. > > I don't even have a web interface for it, any top-ups (infrequent) I > just go into MySQL and add to the balance manually, but each user can > dial an extension and a 2nd PHP AGI script via festival reads out the > balance. > > I just wish there was a phone payment option for paypal, then I wouldn't > need to futz about with topping up balances ;) > > -- > > Best regards, > Duane > > http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication > http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally > http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom > http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP > > "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, > but the optimist has a better time on the trip." > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Lloyd Tel:416-500-8014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
