Kill Bill Blog
Kill Bill Cloud Makes Subscription Billing Testing Easy
Here at Kill Bill, we frequently receive inquiries from both our customers and the broader community about specific Kill Bill behaviors. If the billing day is the 31st, when would the invoice be generated in February? What happens when I change the billing alignment...
Why choose an Open-Source SaaS Billing solution
The Flightpath Team recently published a detailed article on the pros and cons of platforms like Stripe, Chargebee, and Chargify. The author argues that Stripe is best suited if you anticipate having to develop custom logic. If innovating on pricing models and billing...
Deploying KillBill / Kaui on OpenShift
Deploying KillBill / Kaui on OKD (OpenShift) Introduction OKD is the community distribution of Red Hat's OpenShift, which allows for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployments. It is embedded with Kubernetes container cluster management and...
Kill Bill Cloud Billing and Payment Now Available (Release 0.22.x)
We have just released a new version of Kill Bill 0.22.x: Release Notes. Besides introducing our initiatives for cloud billing and payment, we've also been working on improving: Core billing and payment enhancements and bug fixes Ease-of-use for APIs and API...
Announcing Kill Bill release 0.20
We are very pleased to announce the new Kill Bill 0.20.x release train (current version at the time of this blog is 0.20.1). This has been a long cycle and a lot has happened since our 0.18.x release. If anything, comparing the picture we posted when we released...
Kaui updates for 0.20
Over the past year, we continued to invest heavily in Kaui, the Kill Bill Admin UI. While originally it was only used by Customer Support teams, it has now become a swiss army knife for developers, operations, finance teams and product managers. Going through all of...
API, documentation and client libraries
After 7 years of improving our code base and answering diligently questions on our mailing list , we have decided that one of the main focus of our upcoming 0.20 release should be focused around API and documentation. We have worked on a series of initiatives, all...
Kaui 0.16 Release
We are pleased to announce that Kaui 0.16 has shipped! Kaui, the Kill Bill Admin UI, is an invaluable tool complementing any Kill Bill deployment. Customer Service agents use it to see and modify customers accounts and subscriptions while on the phone, Product...
Kill Bill Payment Bridge Plugin
When we first started the work on Kill Bill 6 years ago, our original focus was centered around subscription billing/invoicing and the payment system was mostly a side module used to pay existing invoices. In the last 3 years, we have shared our resources between...
Kill Bill Birthday #6 Celebration
It's hard to believe that Kill Bill is turning 6 already! I still remember that afternoon in Palo Alto when we decided to start the open-source project: Stéphane reluctantly rushed to his ophthalmology appointment while I got started on writing a Jetty skeleton. As...