Coming with the catchphrase “Download, Invoice and Prosper" is a startup company, jBilling, located at http://www.jbilling.com offers free to download open source billing system. Robust architecture and enterprise features offered by jBilling easily became the choice of businesses of all sizes. Built on Java 2 platform, it ensures security and maximum scalability.
Presently V 1.0.5 is available for download. It supports all the major database systems including DB2, Hypersonic, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Sybase.
The acceptance of jbilling can primarily be attributed to the general trend of moving away from proprietary software solutions to free and easily adaptable open source alternatives.
According to the developers behind the project, this billing software suite is best suited for recurring billing or billing customers on a weekly or monthly basis.
Jbilling software development project has been the most active project at SourceForge.net for quite a while maintaining high levels of interests by both coders and end users.
Coding processes necessary by end users is very minimal and straight forward. The developer team has come up with an easy to read instructions manual.
Automation seems to be the buzzword about Jbilling. Billing generation, invoice reminders, payments processing etc are automated. There was indeed some serious coding going on behind the scenes.
The web based interface gives better control and integration of invoicing and payment processing for ecommerce.
Open source in most cases has been a example of documentation. With jbilling one can expect some changes. Will coders from around the world take up on the project to further enhance the billing software? It is only a matter of time before the answer evolves.
