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Re:The 14 pains of building your own billing system by hansvm on Monday February 26, 2024 @09:16AM (#39511429)
There was a fairly recent case [0] exploring a situation in which the amount of time is 0. In that jurisdiction, if somebody owes you money and pays you money, they aren't entitled for that particular payment to be returned just because it was an "accident".

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/16/busi...

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Re:The 14 pains of building your own billing system by rmasters on Monday February 26, 2024 @10:45AM (#39512586)
That ruling was overturned on appeal.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/citigroup-wins-appeal-ove...

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Re:The 14 pains of building your own billing system by hansvm on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @09:55AM (#39524817)
Interesting!
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Re:The 14 pains of building your own billing system by cschneid on Monday February 26, 2024 @10:38AM (#39512487)
that is a different case. That was a payment on a real debt, just earlier than intended (and due to a mistake).

The top comment was talking about money that wasn't even billed. They don't have any actual service or product it was tied back to. Also if they do have agreements with that insurer (just no payments pending), there is going to be a contract overriding default law which probably covers how to handle mistakes.

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Re:The 14 pains of building your own billing system by pjc50 on Monday February 26, 2024 @09:56AM (#39511931)
The "if they owe you money" is very important here.
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Re:The 14 pains of building your own billing system by PKop on Monday February 26, 2024 @02:39PM (#39515914)
The question was obviously referring to money not owed.
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Re:The 14 pains of building your own billing system by hansvm on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @09:57AM (#39524845)
Absolutely (hence the low word count, many of which were dedicated to highlighting that distinction). When learning about a topic though, it's helpful to explore surrounding ideas.
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