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Subject: Re: Stratostack Billing Portal
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archived-at: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:29:16 -0000

It does have a US centric view (TaxCloud).  I didn't see too many other dec=
ent tax-calculating services though, and its a pretty complex issue to hand=
le internally.  Is the problem Taxcloud itself, or that Stratostack doesn't=
 handle taxing cases outside the US?

The first thing I would look at doing is adding Stripe and possibly Paypal.=
  Stripe would also pick up Bitcoin payments.

> On Jan 16, 2017, at 6:16 AM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>=20
> The only issue I have with the model is its forcing TaxCloud and
> Authorize.Net Account requirement. Be nice if it was more felxible
> and accepted like Paypal, bitcoin, and others.
>=20
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:31 AM, benoit lair <kurushi4000@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>> Hello Nathan,
>>=20
>> Your software seems very interesting to my point of view.
>> I'm going to reserve some time to do a POC with your software and my
>> cloudstack :)
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> 2017-01-11 13:19 GMT+01:00 Simon Weller <sweller@ena.com>:
>>=20
>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> I actually wasn't aware of this project, it looks pretty interesting,
>>> especially on the billing side. I'd suggest you may also want to send a=
n
>>> email to the dev list for feedback.
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> - Si
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Nathan Bowyer <nbowyer@seredan.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 10:25 AM
>>> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
>>> Subject: Stratostack Billing Portal
>>>=20
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>=20
>>> I am the primary author of the Stratostack billing portal system (
>>> stratostack.org<http://stratostack.org> / github.com/1stel/stratostack-
>>> portal<http://github.com/1stel/stratostack-portal>).  Recently I've bee=
n
>>> looking at restarting active development of the project, but I wanted s=
ome
>>> community feedback on the project.  Is this project, or what the projec=
t
>>> could be, useful to the community?  Is it something you want and are
>>> interested in?
>>>=20
>>> Stratostack was originally designed to also support a reseller model of
>>> IaaS services.  That is, a Cloud Provider could turn up the part of
>>> Stratostack that generates usable billing records, and then another ent=
ity
>>> could turn up the portal side and sell those services at some markup.  =
Is
>>> that model even viable and worth continuing to support?  Several of the
>>> design decisions about the project were heavily influenced by this deci=
sion.
>>>=20
>>> Last, if you have any questions about the project I'll be happy to answ=
er
>>> as best I can.
>>>=20
>>> Nathan
>>>=20