jBilling is hiring a full time Java Developer / Consultant! Our ideal candidate will implement requirements following the full development cycle: requirements analysis (interacting with customers), design, coding, testing and deployment. As a consultant, the candidate will be working directly with customers. Here are some of the qualities we are looking for:

• Excellent written English communication skills
• Expert level on Java SE and Java EE 5
• Ability to produce clear and concise documentation
• Object-oriented and multi-threaded software design
• SQL optimization
• Basic administration of Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
• Solid experience with Hibernate and JPA
• Good knowledge of the UNIX environment and basic administration of Linux and Solaris

If you think you are well qualified, click here to submit a preliminary application.

Ottawa, Ontario, June 27th, 2012 — jBilling, a leader and pioneer of open source enterprise billing software, is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with Daring Star, an integrator based in Athens, Greece, specializing in services for telecommunication businesses. Daring Star has a solid reputation in developing business and operations support systems—including billing, mediation, middleware, and customer care systems—and has become jBilling’s latest Partner under its Partner Program, which began in 2009.

jBilling's open source enterprise billing software is feature rich, scalable, robust and flexible. Our software offers solutions for clients in many diverse markets, particularly for subscription businesses and large-scale telecommunications and utilities companies. The Partner Program invites firms and individual consultants to partner with jBilling to address the overwhelming demand that jBilling has had for its open source enterprise billing software.

Daring Star has a strong, proven track record of building and managing the development and integration for BSS projects of any size. Daring Star understands the role of a systems integrator and takes full responsibility for the decisions and actions related to work for all their customers. Daring Star has a well-respected client base coupled with solid relationships with major players in the technology market. 

Sebastiano Mion, Co-Founder and Operations Director at Daring Star, commented on the partnership: “Daring Star has created a thriving business through partnerships that deliver real solutions to our growing client base. We recently signed this alliance with JBilling, which gives us a billing system that is optimized for the demands of any player in the telecom market be it a startup operator, an MVNO, or an established telecom carrier. We see real growth in the telecom market, especially for offerings flexible enough to compete successfully. The jBilling partnership gives us access to a solid and cost-effective end-to-end billing solution with a proven track record in telecom.”

Daring Star and jBilling are well-matched business partners from several perspectives. Both companies offer enterprise services, have clients in telecommunications, and have extensive experience in software development and service management. Daring Star is poised to provide jBilling Support Services to its clients.

Emiliano Conde, Founder of jBilling, had this to say about the partnership: “We are thrilled to have a group of experienced telecommunications consultants in Europe who have partnered with jBilling. Through this partnership, our software will reach many more companies that are looking for robust and flexible billing solutions. Equally important is the high level of support services those companies will have access to.”

About jBilling:

jBilling is a global player with consultants on four continents. It’s a mature and rapidly evolving open source system and delivers a comprehensive billing solution that is popular with many industries including telecommunications, ISPs, ASPs, and media.

The jBilling team is proud to announce that our software has now been integrated with SugarCRM, an open source customer relationship management system.

To give you a better understanding of how this new functionality works, we have created a video. This video demonstrates how you can create an account in SugarCRM that will be immediately available as a customer in jBilling. It also shows how purchase orders, invoices, and payments created for that customer in jBilling will also be available to view in SugarCRM.

It is important to note that SugarCRM is not the only CRM system that can be used in this way. Other systems, such as Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics, and others, can also be easily integrated through jBilling's API.

The jBilling team is pleased to announce the release of its Enterprise Edition 3.1.0! We have been looking forward to this moment, as we can now introduce several new, useful enhancements. We are also looking forward to the release of the jBilling Community Edition 3.1.0, which will be available within the next few weeks.

The enhancements for jBilling Enterprise Edition 3.1.0 serve to better accommodate user needs, and brings positive growth to the system as a whole. Please continue reading to learn more about the new functionality you can find in jBilling Enterprise Edition 3.1.0.

We have put together a short video to give you a visual overview of these new, exciting features.

New Features

This release contains the following major enhancements:

Meta Fields and Enumerations:
Create your own custom fields for orders, customers, products, payments, and invoices. You also gain the ability to create drop down lists directly from the GUI, which means there is no need for customization.

Historical Timeline:
You now have the ability to capture fluctuating rates as they change over time. You can capture a historical rate for products, plans, and currencies.

Partners:
Connect a customer to a partner, and let jBilling handle the commission calculation based on a configurable payout period.

Rate Cards:
Upload your rate card as a CSV file and use it to price a product. You can upload and use as many rate cards as you require. When the mediation process runs, the events will automatically use the correct rates in the purchase order.

Here we have another maintenance release of jBilling. This means no new functionality, just bug fixes. But there are a lot of bugs fixes in this release (more than a hundred), so a lot has been done in the previous two months.

For new functionality, you will have to wait for jBilling 3.1.0. That won't be a long wait; we are just a few weeks from releasing it. Then you will have a few new features, including the custom meta fields for not just customer, but invoices, payments, products, etc.

Until then.