Re: [Emerald] Billing

PowerNet ( (no email) )
Fri, 14 May 1999 15:20:18 -0400

We started with the exact attitude that you have of not wanting to go=
through all the records manually, but we found that it was going to be a=
great way of making sure our records were accurate. Needless to say it=
took us 2 months to get all of our records into Emerald. We have been=
doing the billing through Emerald for 2 months and are about ready to go=
live and start authenticating with it also. We then plan to add the dll's=
for mailsite and Serv-U.
We also had many annuals and partial year payments. You will need to enter=
them manually.
Good Luck!

If you have seen this list, you know there are a lot of bugs in Emerald and=
the incremental releases.

Hope it helps

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On 5/14/99, at 12:14 PM, David V. Brenner wrote:

>I know there is probably no easy answer for this, but I am curious as to=
how
>you folks have moved from your other systems into Emerald where billing is
>concerned. At this juncture, we have some customers who are paid up for a
>year, while others are paid up for various numbers of months and some
>accounts are in arrears. I don't know how this information could be
>imported into Emerald in a way that would allow Emerald to begin=
generating
>accurate invoices. So, when we decide to start relying on Emerald for
>billing as well as authentication and informational purposes, what would=
be
>the best way to approach it? Are there fields whose content I should=
change
>globally? I Want to minimize the number of invoices that go out to those
>who shouldn't be invoiced, but I don't know that we want to sort through
>1500+ records in our old system to do this.
>
>Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
>
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>David V. Brenner - dvb@cport.com
>International Services Network Corporation
>http://www.cport.com