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Posted to users@cloudstack.apache.org by Nathan Bowyer <nb...@seredan.com> on 2017/01/10 16:25:52 UTC
Stratostack Billing Portal
Hello everyone,
I am the primary author of the Stratostack billing portal system (stratostack.org<http://stratostack.org> / github.com/1stel/stratostack-portal<http://github.com/1stel/stratostack-portal>). Recently I've been looking at restarting active development of the project, but I wanted some community feedback on the project. Is this project, or what the project could be, useful to the community? Is it something you want and are interested in?
Stratostack was originally designed to also support a reseller model of IaaS services. That is, a Cloud Provider could turn up the part of Stratostack that generates usable billing records, and then another entity could turn up the portal side and sell those services at some markup. Is that model even viable and worth continuing to support? Several of the design decisions about the project were heavily influenced by this decision.
Last, if you have any questions about the project I'll be happy to answer as best I can.
Nathan
Re: Stratostack Billing Portal
Posted by Nathan Bowyer <nb...@seredan.com>.
It does have a US centric view (TaxCloud). I didn't see too many other decent tax-calculating services though, and its a pretty complex issue to handle internally. Is the problem Taxcloud itself, or that Stratostack doesn't handle taxing cases outside the US?
The first thing I would look at doing is adding Stripe and possibly Paypal. Stripe would also pick up Bitcoin payments.
> On Jan 16, 2017, at 6:16 AM, Outback Dingo <ou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The only issue I have with the model is its forcing TaxCloud and
> Authorize.Net Account requirement. Be nice if it was more felxible
> and accepted like Paypal, bitcoin, and others.
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:31 AM, benoit lair <ku...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Nathan,
>>
>> Your software seems very interesting to my point of view.
>> I'm going to reserve some time to do a POC with your software and my
>> cloudstack :)
>>
>>
>>
>> 2017-01-11 13:19 GMT+01:00 Simon Weller <sw...@ena.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>
>>>
>>> I actually wasn't aware of this project, it looks pretty interesting,
>>> especially on the billing side. I'd suggest you may also want to send an
>>> email to the dev list for feedback.
>>>
>>>
>>> - Si
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Nathan Bowyer <nb...@seredan.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 10:25 AM
>>> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
>>> Subject: Stratostack Billing Portal
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I am the primary author of the Stratostack billing portal system (
>>> stratostack.org<http://stratostack.org> / github.com/1stel/stratostack-
>>> portal<http://github.com/1stel/stratostack-portal>). Recently I've been
>>> looking at restarting active development of the project, but I wanted some
>>> community feedback on the project. Is this project, or what the project
>>> could be, useful to the community? Is it something you want and are
>>> interested in?
>>>
>>> Stratostack was originally designed to also support a reseller model of
>>> IaaS services. That is, a Cloud Provider could turn up the part of
>>> Stratostack that generates usable billing records, and then another entity
>>> could turn up the portal side and sell those services at some markup. Is
>>> that model even viable and worth continuing to support? Several of the
>>> design decisions about the project were heavily influenced by this decision.
>>>
>>> Last, if you have any questions about the project I'll be happy to answer
>>> as best I can.
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>
Re: Stratostack Billing Portal
Posted by Outback Dingo <ou...@gmail.com>.
The only issue I have with the model is its forcing TaxCloud and
Authorize.Net Account requirement. Be nice if it was more felxible
and accepted like Paypal, bitcoin, and others.
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:31 AM, benoit lair <ku...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Nathan,
>
> Your software seems very interesting to my point of view.
> I'm going to reserve some time to do a POC with your software and my
> cloudstack :)
>
>
>
> 2017-01-11 13:19 GMT+01:00 Simon Weller <sw...@ena.com>:
>
>> Hi Nathan,
>>
>>
>> I actually wasn't aware of this project, it looks pretty interesting,
>> especially on the billing side. I'd suggest you may also want to send an
>> email to the dev list for feedback.
>>
>>
>> - Si
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Nathan Bowyer <nb...@seredan.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 10:25 AM
>> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
>> Subject: Stratostack Billing Portal
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am the primary author of the Stratostack billing portal system (
>> stratostack.org<http://stratostack.org> / github.com/1stel/stratostack-
>> portal<http://github.com/1stel/stratostack-portal>). Recently I've been
>> looking at restarting active development of the project, but I wanted some
>> community feedback on the project. Is this project, or what the project
>> could be, useful to the community? Is it something you want and are
>> interested in?
>>
>> Stratostack was originally designed to also support a reseller model of
>> IaaS services. That is, a Cloud Provider could turn up the part of
>> Stratostack that generates usable billing records, and then another entity
>> could turn up the portal side and sell those services at some markup. Is
>> that model even viable and worth continuing to support? Several of the
>> design decisions about the project were heavily influenced by this decision.
>>
>> Last, if you have any questions about the project I'll be happy to answer
>> as best I can.
>>
>> Nathan
>>
Re: Stratostack Billing Portal
Posted by benoit lair <ku...@gmail.com>.
Hello Nathan,
Your software seems very interesting to my point of view.
I'm going to reserve some time to do a POC with your software and my
cloudstack :)
2017-01-11 13:19 GMT+01:00 Simon Weller <sw...@ena.com>:
> Hi Nathan,
>
>
> I actually wasn't aware of this project, it looks pretty interesting,
> especially on the billing side. I'd suggest you may also want to send an
> email to the dev list for feedback.
>
>
> - Si
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Nathan Bowyer <nb...@seredan.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 10:25 AM
> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Stratostack Billing Portal
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am the primary author of the Stratostack billing portal system (
> stratostack.org<http://stratostack.org> / github.com/1stel/stratostack-
> portal<http://github.com/1stel/stratostack-portal>). Recently I've been
> looking at restarting active development of the project, but I wanted some
> community feedback on the project. Is this project, or what the project
> could be, useful to the community? Is it something you want and are
> interested in?
>
> Stratostack was originally designed to also support a reseller model of
> IaaS services. That is, a Cloud Provider could turn up the part of
> Stratostack that generates usable billing records, and then another entity
> could turn up the portal side and sell those services at some markup. Is
> that model even viable and worth continuing to support? Several of the
> design decisions about the project were heavily influenced by this decision.
>
> Last, if you have any questions about the project I'll be happy to answer
> as best I can.
>
> Nathan
>
Re: Stratostack Billing Portal
Posted by Simon Weller <sw...@ena.com>.
Hi Nathan,
I actually wasn't aware of this project, it looks pretty interesting, especially on the billing side. I'd suggest you may also want to send an email to the dev list for feedback.
- Si
________________________________
From: Nathan Bowyer <nb...@seredan.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 10:25 AM
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Stratostack Billing Portal
Hello everyone,
I am the primary author of the Stratostack billing portal system (stratostack.org<http://stratostack.org> / github.com/1stel/stratostack-portal<http://github.com/1stel/stratostack-portal>). Recently I've been looking at restarting active development of the project, but I wanted some community feedback on the project. Is this project, or what the project could be, useful to the community? Is it something you want and are interested in?
Stratostack was originally designed to also support a reseller model of IaaS services. That is, a Cloud Provider could turn up the part of Stratostack that generates usable billing records, and then another entity could turn up the portal side and sell those services at some markup. Is that model even viable and worth continuing to support? Several of the design decisions about the project were heavily influenced by this decision.
Last, if you have any questions about the project I'll be happy to answer as best I can.
Nathan