[freeside] Billing + Freeside Bill Script

[Colin]

ivan wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 03:13:36PM +1200, Colin wrote:
> > Hello, sorry for being a nusiance.
> >
> > I have a question regarding the billing of customers. Currently we bill
> > all customers at the beginning of each month, so this means that the
> > customer should receive an invoice several days before the beginning of
> > the next month. It seems as though freeside does not allow customers to
> > be bill before the date of the next bill.
> > Eg, Clicking on 'Bill Now' does not create an invoice as the date for
> > next bill is 01 July 2000.
> > We also liked to bill every single customer at the same time, it seems
> > as though this can be acheived by using the freeside-bill script in
> > /bin. Again, does not seem to bill customers until the next bill date is
> > matched, even if i specify the date in the command line.
>
> You can use the -d option of freeside-bill to run billing as if it's a
> different date.  As per my previous message, Freeside does not currently
> support pro-rating or 1st-of-the-month billing, only anniversery billing.

I think you may have misinterpreted my question, we do not wish to implement
pro-rating billing.
We would like 1st of the month but we can simply changed all packages to the
1st of the month manually to do this so that anniversary billing is used.

My question is whether we can bill/print the invoice before the actual billing
date.
Eg: If the next billing date is 07/01/2000, can we print the invoice prior to
this date, say 06/26/2000, so that the customers can receive the invoice
before the billing date.
At the moment it seems as though no customers get billed even if i specify the
date prior to the billing date when running the billing script. It runs the
script as though it is billing the customers but nothing is entered in mysql,
i've checked all the tables.
It'll only add the data if the date i specify is after the billing date, as in
the above example 07/02/2000 works fine.