I'm also a bit leary of them now, considering they are owned by internap after the voxel acquisition. I like their software and used it for years. It just seems like they're trying to compete in the market of zuora and others when they are something completely different. I'm also surprised there have been no competitors to ubersmith in the data center space. Matt On Jan 9, 2014 9:08 PM, "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Aaron <aaron@wholesaleinternet.net>wrote: > We rolled our own. A friend is migrating to WHMCS from Ubersmith.
Aaron
I would be standoffish, due to Ubersmith alleged recent history of price increases. Admittedly... I am very skeptical about the concept of datacenter management or billing software providers charging a big monthly fee, plus extra per-client and extra per managed-device.
That doesn't mean it's always a bad idea; it's just really annoying.
If smart phones were sold like Enterprise software....
"Customer: How much for this smart phone?"
"Sales clerk: How many people do you plan to call with it?"
"Customer: Uh, 5 or 6 friends and family members."
"Sales clerk: I see... well that will be $300 plus $25 per contact, so the total comes to $450. In 5 years the newer model will be $499 for you."
"Customer: Wait... I also need to receive calls from 3 important business clients"
"Sales clerk: In that case, the same smart phone costs $2500, plus an extra $100/month license fee for each business contact, and a 30% annual maintenance -- if you fail to renew before the end of the 12 months, it will deactivate and it will be full price to turn it back on."
-- -JH