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+ <h6>WISPAPalooza 2016 Billing Software Comparison</h6>
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+<p align="left">There will be an unprecedented ten billing vendors at WISPAPalooza this year. Wow! That's a lot of choices for a WISP to sort through.
+
+<p align="left">I put together a concise comparison highlighting the differences between different billing systems. Looking for something hosted in the cloud or on-premise? Looking for an established company, or a new entriant? Prefer dealing with small vendors, or large ones? This should help you narrow things down. I tried hard not to make a useless advertisement with a long list of features, but rather a digestable, fair comparison of relevant information about the competition.
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+<p align="left">Of course I hope you'll consider <a href="http://freeside.biz/">Freeside</a>, but I know we're not the right fit for everyone. Please support vendors who support our industry through WIPSA membership. I hope this helps you find the right billing vendor for you!
+
+<p align="left">P.S. Friends don't let friends use Quickbooks for subscriber billing. :)
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+<p align="left">
+-- <br>
+Ivan Kohler<br>
+President and Head Geek<br>
+Freeside Internet Services, Inc.<br>
+
+<br><br>
+
+<table width="98%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tblprod">
+ <tr><td align="center" valign="top">
+
+<table width="100%" class="comparison" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+
+ <tr>
+ <td></td>
+ <td><a href="http://freeside.biz/"><img src="imgs/big-logo.png" alt="Freeside" width=170></a></td>
+ <td><img src="http://www.wispsolutions.com/images/stories/AzotelSIMPLer/azotel-logo.gif" width=130 alt="Azotel"></a></td>
+ <td><img src="https://www.billmax.com/images/BillMax-shadow.jpg" width=130 alt="Billmax"></a></td>
+ <td width="130px"><img src="cdg.png" height=64 alt="CDG"></a></td>
+ <td><img src="http://www.directlinkadmin.com/img/logo.png" width=130 alt="DirectLink Admin"></a></td>
+ <td><img src="http://site2.ispbilling.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/platypus_logo_250x77.jpg" width=130 alt="Platypus"></a></td>
+ <td><img src="http://www.wispa.org/Portals/37/ContactImages/8978.png" width=130 alt="Powercode"></a></td>
+ <td><img src="http://www.wispa.org/Portals/37/ContactImages/8952.png" width=130 alt="Sonar"></a></td>
+ <td><img src="https://d1a309rwthnrm3.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/04183021/visp.png" width=130 alt="VISP"></a></td>
+ <td><img src="http://www.wispmon.com/img/wispmonsm.png" width=130 alt="WISPMon"></a></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>WISPA member</th>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>WISP features</th>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>CDR billing / Telco features</th>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="maybe">new/preliminary</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="maybe">new/preliminary</span></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Fiber ISP features</th>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="yes">✔</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="no">✖</span></td>
+ <td><span class="maybe">new/preliminary</span></td>
+ </tr>
+
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Deployment</th>
+ <td>Mostly Premise (New: Hosted)</td>
+ <td>Hosted</td>
+ <td>Premise</td>
+ <td>Hosted or Premise</td>
+ <td>Hosted</td>
+ <td>Premise</td>
+ <td>Premise</td>
+ <td>Hosted</td>
+ <td>Hosted</td>
+ <td>Mostly Hosted (also Premise)</td>
+ </tr>
+
+<!-- <tr>
+ <th>Client</th>
+ <td>Web</td>
+ <td>Web</td>
+ <td>Web</td>
+ <td>Web</td>
+ <td>Web</td>
+ <td>Windows</td>
+ <td>Web</td>
+ <td>Web</td>
+ <td>Web</td>
+ <td>Web</td>
+ <td>Web</td>
+ </tr>
+-->
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>License</th>
+ <td>Open-source</td>
+ <td>Proprietary</td>
+ <td>Proprietary</td>
+ <td>Proprietary</td>
+ <td>Proprietary</td>
+ <td>Proprietary</td>
+ <td>Proprietary</td>
+ <td>Proprietary</td>
+ <td>Proprietary</td>
+ <td>Proprietary</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Price</th>
+ <td>No per-customer or license charges. Can purchase implementation, support, and customization services.</td>
+ <td>?/customer/month</td>
+ <td>?/customer/month</td>
+ <td>"If you have to ask, you can't afford it"</td>
+ <td>$0.50/customer/month</td>
+ <td>100 customers free, then $0.05-$0.70/customer/month</td>
+ <td>$0.63-$1.40/customer/month</td>
+ <td>$0.50-$1.25/customer/month</td>
+ <td>$0.90-$1.30/customer/month</td>
+ <td>$0.95-$1.35/customer/month</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Monthly price, 1000 customers</th>
+ <td><span class="smyes">$195</span></td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>$500</td>
+ <td>$170 <!-- ($167 Platypus + $3 Windows 10 license amortized over 36 months) --></td>
+ <td>$1330</td>
+ <td>$1250</td>
+ <td>$1300</td>
+ <td>$1200</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Monthly price, 3500 customers</th>
+ <td><span class="smyes">$395</span></td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>$1750</td>
+ <td>$368 <!-- ($314 Platypus + $54 Windows 2012 server & SQL server 2014 Standard w/10 CALs, amortized over 36 months) --></td>
+ <td>$3920</td>
+ <td>$4375</td>
+ <td>$3150</td>
+ <td>$3325</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Monthly price, 10,000 customers</th>
+ <td><span class="smyes">$800</span></td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>$5000</td>
+ <td>$641 <!--($472 Platypus + $169 Windows 2012 server & SQL server 2014 Standard w/25 CALS, amortized over 36 months) --></td>
+ <td>$11,250</td>
+ <td>$9,100</td>
+ <td>$9,000</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ </tr>
+
+<!--
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Monthly price, 100,000 customers</th>
+ <td><span class="smyes">$1600</span></td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>$50,000</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ <td>$66.250</td>
+ <td>$90,000</td>
+ <td>?</td>
+ </tr>
+
+-->
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Ongoing development</th>
+ <td>Active (new major version this year)</td>
+ <td>Active</td>
+ <td>Active</td>
+ <td>Telco consulting-ware</td>
+ <td>Active (new product)</td>
+ <td>Minimal</td>
+ <td>Active</td>
+ <td>Active (new product)</td>
+ <td>Active</td>
+ <td>Active (new major version last year)</td>
+ </tr>
+
+<!-- XXXXX .... survey says
+ <tr>
+ <th>Share of WISP market</th>
+ <td>Small</td>
+ <td>Large</td>
+ <td>Small</td>
+ <td>None</td>
+ <td>New product</td>
+ <td>Large</td>
+ <td>Large</td>
+ <td>New product</td>
+ <td>Medium?</td>
+ <td>Small</td>
+ </tr>
+-->
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Vendor country</th>
+ <td>US</td>
+ <td>Ireland (sold through US distributors)</td>
+ <td>US</td>
+ <td>US</td>
+ <td>US</td>
+ <td>Canada (Platypus in US)</td>
+ <td>US</td>
+ <td>US</td>
+ <td>Philippines</td>
+ <td>US</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Vendor business/ownership</th>
+ <td>Billing software</td>
+ <td>Billing software</td>
+ <td>Billing and geologic software</td>
+ <td>Billing software</td>
+ <td>MDU ISP (VideoDirect)</td>
+ <td>Domain names, mobile phone service (OpenSRS, Ting, Tucows)</td>
+ <td>WISP (Bertram wireless)</td>
+ <td>Billing software</td>
+ <td>Billing software, managed ISP services (call center, email/web hosting)</td>
+ <td>Billing software</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Vendor size</th>
+ <td>Small</td>
+ <td>Small</td>
+ <td>Tiny</td>
+ <td>Huge</td>
+ <td>Tiny</td>
+ <td>Medium</td>
+ <td>Large</td>
+ <td>Small</td>
+ <td>Medium</td>
+ <td>Tiny</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Since</th>
+ <td>1998</td>
+ <td>2005 (2010 USA)</td>
+ <td>1997</td>
+ <td>1970</td>
+ <td>2015</td>
+ <td>1996</td>
+ <td>2003</td>
+ <td>2015</td>
+ <td>1996</td>
+ <td>2007 (2010 billing features)</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Notable fact(s)</th>
+ <td>Mature and full-featured ISP and CDR billing. New UI, WISP mapping features and hosted option.</td>
+ <td>Simple hosted system for small WISPs, almost like a franchise</td>
+ <td>Old ISP system, dormant for years, revived in 2012</td>
+ <td>Large telco/cableco system</td>
+ <td>New system with MDU features</td>
+ <td>Windows client (and server). Can print and mail your invoices.</td>
+ <td>Humongous trade show booths. Glassdoor horror stories.</td>
+ <td>Ex-Powercode team, early access discount, rapid development</td>
+ <td>Can also host your email and answer your support calls</td>
+ <td>No longer requires Adobe Flash</td>
+ </tr>
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