I have some thoughts on this, but a question first. What does your schema look like? Clearly, you need to handle alot of this stuff a DB and using a database driven solution, I would think, would be required here.

I realize that is not a Perl answer but I am not sure your post is a Perl questions as much as it is an algorithm question. That is is fine, but I wanted to be clear on that.

My only other thought on it is to use Class::Date for handling the date calculation, storage, and calculation. I like the OO interface that it uses.

I did something like this recently, and would be happy to rehash that with you directly. Feel free to email me outside PM is you want to bounce some ideas around.

In reply to Re: Credit Card Billing by jonjacobmoon
in thread Credit Card Billing by Anonymous Monk

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