“Let's build a homemade billing system”, now you have four problems

Re:“Let's build a homemade billing system”, now you have fou... by yugarinn on Monday September 18, 2023 @09:20AM (#37555720)

My experience is that the scope is never kept narrow, which is exactly the same that the author is describing.

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Re:“Let's build a homemade billing system”, now you have fou... by acutesoftware on Monday September 18, 2023 @09:26AM (#37555773)

Well, you can - you can have a policy that forces payments from a select group. Some users will complain when "No, you cant pay with 2 chickens every 3rd full moon", but that is too bad.

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Re:“Let's build a homemade billing system”, now you have fou... by dagw on Monday September 18, 2023 @09:32AM (#37555859)

Of course you then have to be willing to turn down money/customers. As someone who has worked for quite large companies, we've ended up not buying from certain companies because they couldn't invoice us like we wanted to be invoiced.

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Re:“Let's build a homemade billing system”, now you have fou... by 6510 on Monday September 18, 2023 @09:42AM (#37555996)

And miss out on all the fun with buyer-created invoices?

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