by Pierre-Alexandre Meyer | Jul 3, 2016 | System Integration
The open-source Kill Bill platform provides advanced subscription management as well as payment APIs. Businesses of any size, from the 2-person startup to public companies, rely on it for their e-commerce recurring billing and shopping cart payment needs. Lots of SaaS...
by Stéphane Brossier | Jun 16, 2016 | Billing Systems, Kill Bill Internals
Until now, Kill Bill only allowed to configure the Bill Cycle Day (BCD) attached to each subscription through the use of billing alignment catalog rules. As a reminder, the BCD defines the day when a specific subscription gets billed. For instance assuming customers...
by Pierre-Alexandre Meyer | Apr 25, 2016 | Payments
A typical integration with a payment gateway such as Stripe looks like this: In the error handling block, you may decide to email the customer, block his access to your website, etc. Hopefully, you also keep track of these errors and generate a daily report on how...
by Pierre-Alexandre Meyer | Apr 6, 2016 | System Integration
We consider Kill Bill as a platform first, upon which you can build your billing and payment infrastructure. As such, we are working hard to make sure (almost) every aspect of the system is accessible through APIs (subscriptions, invoices and payments management, but...
by Stéphane Brossier | Feb 10, 2016 | Billing Systems
In this blog, we will explore the power behind the BlockingState abstraction inside Kill Bill. Overview: The BlockingState events were introduced in version 0.6.x, so while they are certainly not new, they were mostly used for internal purpose inside Kill Bill. We...
by Stéphane Brossier | Jan 29, 2016 | The Kill Bill Story
We are excited to announce our new release Kill Bill 0.16.x (and we just released 0.16.1 to make it even better)! This is the result of 6 months of hard work and a lot has happened… so let’s review: Performance Improvement This has been a very long effort...
by Pierre-Alexandre Meyer | Dec 9, 2015 | System Integration
Kill Bill’s plugin architecture has grown significantly over the past couple of years. We already have about 50 open-source plugins extending Kill Bill with new features and offering tight integrations with payment gateways, fraud detection solutions, etc. (and...
by Stéphane Brossier | Nov 23, 2015 | Payments
In the past year, we have done a lot of work on performance, and we already had the opportunity to describe some of that work in a previous blog entry. We now feel it is time to provide some numbers, but numbers in themselves are meaningless, unless we provide some...
by Pierre-Alexandre Meyer | Oct 29, 2015 | Payments
We just came back from the Money20/20 hackathon in Vegas. For those who don’t know it, this event brings the entire fintech developer community under one roof for 24 hours, in order to put together new disruptive payment applications. Just as last year, we had...
by Pierre-Alexandre Meyer | Sep 18, 2015 | System Integration
Every so often, the topic of tax comes up on our mailing-list. People wonder why Kill Bill doesn’t have a built-in tax module and how existing users have worked around it. We actually know some companies have implemented their own tax plugin. While this approach may...
