Quote Originally Posted by VOIPoTim View Post
For the BETA launch, we will be using a commercial billing system which will be seperate from vPanel. We're using a system that while not designed for VoIP specifically has proven to be stable and works well. We actually purchased a network wide license from them so we can give licenses out to our hosting resellers and it seems logically to build a plugin to integrate with this software so that our hosting resellers already using it will be able to easily add VoIPo in with their existing billing software when that time comes.

During this launch, we're going to run the integrated billing system hidden in the background (calculating, but not billing anyone) in order to find problem areas with it. It should work and we don't know of anything major, but I really don't trust it given the numerous issues we've found with work done by the same developer.

We'll see how it goes and modify it as needed and then by the time we're going primetime, we'll be fully migrated to the custom billing system.

It sounds more like you're going into a public beta period than to an actual product launch. I sure wouldn't want to risk the wrath of paying customers without a billing system that has been tested and validated/verified as working correctly. There have been too many horror tales in the VoIP community about companies' billing system errors which have been (mis-)perceived as policy.

Maybe we need to turn down the excitement level and rhetoric about the 'launch' in the public forms; it doesn't sound like you're really ready yet.