AgileBill Overview

Containing well over 1,500 files and roughly 200,000 lines of code, AgileBill represents years of planning and development.

The modular structure of AgileBill is intended to make it easy at all steps of implementation – whether it be the actual day to day administration, template customization by web designers, or code level modifications by programmers.

In short, AgileBill has been designed to be the ultimate “Agile” billing software solution, as it can expand to fit the needs of anyone, from the small company all the way to the enterprise level.

AgileBill is used in for a wide number of billing applications, including:

• ASP Billing
• VoIP Billing
• ISP/WISP Billing
• Subscription and Recurring Billing
• Webhosting Billing

For more information on the features the AgileBill billing software can provide, please click here…
AgileBill Support & Documentation

AgileBill Documentation

If you run into trouble, please consult this wiki first. You can use the search function on this site help you look for your topic if you cannot find it quickly.

If you still cannot locate help for the desired topic, please refer to our community forums at http://forum.agileco.com. You will also be able to search feature in our forums to help locate help.

This wiki is a work in progress, I am converting the wiki from the agilebill.com wiki which is no longer maintained. It is archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20060902200851/www.agilebill.com/HomePage

Quickstart Guide

1. Perform the installation 2. Configure the site setup? 3. Configure the e-mail setup? 4. Configure the payment processor(s)?

Product and Categories

1. Managing Categories? 2. Managing Products?

General Administration

1. Backups? 2. Blocking access to specific Domains and Email Addresses? 3. Blocking access to specific IPs and subnets? 4. Currencies? 5. Email Templates? 6. Installing Modules? 7. Upgrading AgileBill? 8. Custom Fields? 9. Tax Zones? 10. Agile Links for Searching Accounts, Invoices, and Services? 11. Email Piping Configuration?

Installing & Upgrading Modules

1. Module Upgrade 2. Module Install

Tasks & Automation

1. How to configure crontab to automate tasks on unix and linux 2. How to configure Windows to automate the tasks

Affiliates

1. Configure the Default Affiliate Settings 2. Modify an Existing Configuration 3. Adding an Affiliate Template 4. Adding a New Affiliate 5. Edit and/or Delete Affiliates 6. Generate Affiliate Commissions 7. Export Affiliate Commissions 8. Delete Affiliate Commissions 9. Using 3rd Party Affiliate & Commerce Tracking

Web Hosting Server & TLDs

1. Configure a hosting server 2. Configure the registrar settings 3. Configure the TLD pricing and availibility pricing options 4. Configure Products as Hosting Plans

Digital Goods & Content Protection

1. Protecting Content with Htaccess 2. Protecting Content with PHP Snippets 3. Protecting Content in AB with Smarty Groups 4. Protecting Content using Apache auth_mod_mysql

Database Mapping

1. Configuring DB Mapping plugins

Customizing the Site Look & Feel

1. Modify the look and feel by editing the default theme 2. Adding and editing template pages 3. Creating new themes 4. Using Smarty tags in AB 5. Customize the PDF invoice

Language Customizations

1. How to add, modify, download, and install languages

Misc. Customizations

1. Changing Required Fields and Min / Max Field Length? 2. Removing the login lock from your account 3. Changing the affiliate Id prefix 4. Creating a Login Landing Page that Redirects outside AB 5. Creating/Managing E-mail Templates

Plugin Development

1. Creating a custom Web Hosting (provisioning) plugin 2. Creating a custom Product Plugin 3. Creating a custom Checkout Plugin 4. Creating a custom DB Mapping Plugin 5. Creating a custom Whois Plugin

Modules Development

1. Developing modules 2. Developing with methods 3. Customizing existing modules