We are very eager to announce the new Kill Bill 0.18.x release train (current version at the time of this blog is 0.18.2). Our last announcement for a ‘major’ release (see current Kill Bill versioning scheme) was almost a year ago . Since this release...
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...
Back in the days, when we started the design for Kill Bill, some of the first discussions we had were centered around catalog (definition of products, prices, behavior associated to each product or transition from one product to another, …). We had lots of use...
As a follow-up to our Payments Tech Talk at Groupon, I would like to go in more details over the performance work we have been working on and what you can expect in the next release. Kill Bill is not designed to handle tens of thousands of requests per second. You...
Overview Kill Bill has been designed from the beginning as a multi-tenant system; that is, on one physical Kill Bill deployment, we can have multiple (tenant) instances of Billing/Payment solutions, completely independant with one another. Each of those tenants will...
In a billing system, dates and times are a critical part of the system, and yet dealing with date and time certainly has its challenges. Let’s start by saying that Kill Bill has a granularity of a day– which means it will not invoice for something smaller...
