Billing Open Source (BIOS)

Kamis, 25 November 2010

Billing Open Source (BIOS) Baliwae, is a privileged to cafe billing based on Linux. However, this application also can run on different operating systems. Web-based application is created using PHP and MySQL, and operate over the web application server such as Apache or Lighttpd. This application consists of two main parts. Display to the operator (the server), and display for cafe users (clients). Client can monitor the duration of usage and cost incurred from his computer, the Administrator can set connection fee rule, to monitor the amount to pay the client, start, stop and reset the client billing including printing bills / notes to customers and present the report revenue in the form of 3D graphics, etc..

As an application made in the country, there are features in the BIOS is not inferior to other commercial billing applications. Some of the features of, among others, has an interface that is easy to use, requires no compilation at the client, are lightweight, supports a variety of variants of cafe fare, minimal use of bandwidth, and can be accessed from a variety of desktop manager (not dependent on one particular kind of linux distro) .

BIOS Features and advantages compared to other billing:

* Comes with Open Source License, the GNU / GPL version 3
* It's never been tested in Warnet Linux for 2 years
* BIOS can run on almost all operating systems - cross-platform, both client and server (linux, windows, freebsd, etc)
* Has simple interface, easy to use for client and operator.
* No need to install (compilasi) at the client. Very easy to install. because enough is installed on your computer or on a proxy server that has been equipped with a webserver (ex: apache server, lightttpd, etc.), php and mysql database. almost all current Linux distributions provide this built-in applications.
* The application is very light, responsive, requiring only a space <550Kb and uses minimal bandwidth local network.
* Can be accessed from GUI mode (xwin: kde, gnome, fluxbox, icewm, JVM, etc.)
* There is a tiered access to the client, operator and administrator
* Unlimited client
* AJAX
* If a billing computer connected to the internet, the owner can monitor and access the cpanel billing from anywhere. That way he can still monitor the condition of warnetnya, etc..

The latest version when this article is made is the version 1.4B

Download the latest here:

http://bios.googlecode.com

Screenshot here:
http://code.google.com/p/bios/wiki/ScreenShot_1_4_B

Documentation here:
http://code.google.com/p/bios/w/list

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