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by elietoubi 1495 days ago
Hi! I co-led the billing stack re-write at Uber circa 2017 and it was an absolute nightmare. Some of the unexpected hard things that are not mentioned in this article: - Manage promotion was very complex - Modeling money (we used to model it as cents ie 1/100 of the common denomination ... turns out it broke a lot of countries like Japan where the Japanese Yen doesn't have cents) - Timezone is a hellhole

One interesting open source project was https://killbill.io/

PS: Since I built a billing and invoicing startup .. check it out: zenbill.com

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Hey thanks for showing me this. What lies beyond the starter plan in concrete terms?