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Recurring charges for billing system

Posted by Josh on August 31st, 2009

For the next iteration of our billing system that is integrated with our automated hosting systems (more details at ahs.lusion.co.za), we are currently working on an improved “recurrence” system that will allow any recurring items to have much more specific settings rather than just monthly.

Some examples of useful recurrence settings that the new system can handle are “the 15th of every second monday”,  “every Tuesday”, “the third last day of every month” or even “the first monday of January”. This system will initially only be available for charges, although there are plans to extend it to hosting account billing too.

Expect the new system to be available in your AHS website hosting control panels in the next few weeks.

New recurring charge screen for billing system

For any coders reading this, the new recurrence engine uses a simple code snippet for the days in a month based on a childhood trick I was taught (based on the knuckles on your hand). Thought it was a neat approach compared to the normal solution of having a constant array with the days in each month (and shorter).


function is_leapyear($y) {
return (($y % 4 == 0) and ($y % 100 != 0)) or ($y % 400 == 0);
}
function days_in_month($m,$is_leapyear=0) {
return ($m==2?28+$is_leapyear:($m<8?30+($m&1):31-($m&1)));
}


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Ultimate reseller hosting software – Lusion AHS

Posted by Jaco on August 22nd, 2009

Case Study – 4Design Creative Media

At 4Design we have searched for what seems forever for a complete reseller hosting platform for our design/development clients. We needed a platform that would provide us with a hosting department straight out of the box. Every aspect of our hosting service needed to be tailored to our unique needs and be fully branded to our business. Most importantly we required an automated hosting system that would double as billing management platform, accepting both local (South African Rand) payments via EFT and credit card as well as international US Dollar payments. We also needed a hosting provider who would be willing to support our large hosting client base transparently as 4Design Creative Media support services. Lusion Technologies have provided us with all this and much much more.

Why we chose Lusion AHS?

This was a no-brainer. In all honesty we have never seen a system this complete in both functionality and originality. Lusion AHS is a complete billing management, client management as well as hosting management platform. Some incredible advantages to Lusion AHS include: (more…)

Tags: billing, Branding, cpanel, lusion AHS, reseller hosting, web hosting
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