Use this list to compare billing systems. Every item below is live in Purple Router today.
- M-Pesa through your bank, with no Paybill needed.
- M-Pesa Express and offline with your own Paybill and Daraja keys.
- Payment page for expired customers that opens by itself.
- SMS payment links that open with no data on your network.
- PPPoE, dynamic and static, with private and public IPs.
- Central RADIUS, with no secrets stored on routers.
- Roaming, or locking a customer to one router or station.
- Device limits and MAC binding to stop shared logins.
- Pause and suspend subscriptions.
- Expiring, dormant and offline customer lists to follow up.
- Debt, overpayments and unallocated payments tracked.
- Invoices with tax.
- SMS in each customer's own language, with or without a sender ID.
- Automatic router backups and secure remote access.
- Audit log of every action.
And one more that is not a feature but matters as much: pricing per router, not per customer.
Want to see a billing system built for Kenyan ISPs? See how Purple Router works.