Subscribers
One record per customer, carrying identity, package, price, billing date and the state the network reads.
Internet billing system for ISPs
One record, four jobs
An internet billing system is not an invoicing tool. It is the one record the network, the money and the customer all agree on — and the loop that turns a confirmed payment into an open port without a person standing in between.
What the system holds
Four records, kept in step with each other, are what separate a billing system from a folder of invoices.
Invoices
Charges raised from the package and the cycle, against a balance the operator and the customer read the same way.
Payments
Mobile money, gateway, bank and manual receipts, each matched to the open invoice it settles.
Access
The current state of that record answers the network when it asks whether to let the subscriber online.
The loop that makes it a system
Billing only counts as automated when a payment changes what the router does without a person standing in between.
- 01
Charge
The package, price and billing date raise the invoice on the cycle you set.
- 02
Collect
The subscriber pays through the gateway or mobile-money provider your network already uses.
- 03
Reconcile
The transaction is matched to the subscriber and to the invoice it settles.
- 04
Authorise
RADIUS answers the next authentication request with the state that payment just produced.
- 05
Apply
PPPoE or Hotspot access and the speed profile follow that decision on the router.
Billing, customers, and network
Operators usually buy these three separately, then spend the week keeping them in agreement with each other.
One record
Support, billing and network state read the same subscriber, so nobody reconciles between tools.
Vouchers
Prepaid stock, agent assignment and redemption sit in the same ledger as recurring subscriptions.
Reporting
Revenue, collections and network activity come off the records that produced them, not off an export.
Where to go next
The pages that carry this further, from the billing model to what it costs.
Common questions
Software that holds every subscriber’s package, invoice and balance, collects payment against it, and uses that state to decide whether the network lets them online.
Accounting records money that has already moved. A billing system also controls access, so a reconciled payment reconnects the subscriber rather than only closing a ledger line.
Yes. Centipid provisions MikroTik routers, authenticates PPPoE and Hotspot subscribers through RADIUS and opens remote Winbox access, with unlimited routers on every plan.
Yes. All three share one customer record on Centipid, so an ISP can run them side by side on the same network.
Centipid is 3% of hotspot revenue or $0.25 per active PPPoE subscriber each month, after fourteen days free with no card required.
One record, from payment to port. Free for fourteen days.
Connect a MikroTik router and a payment gateway, and watch the loop close itself.