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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 a
by elietoubi 4y 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/ https://killbill.io/
PS: Since I built a billing and invoicing startup .. check it out: zenbill.com
- 0des 4y agoHey thanks for showing me this. What lies beyond the starter plan in concrete terms?