Category Archives: Tutorials

Billing System, Payment Gateways, Tutorials, Uncategorized

Enabling your South African PayPal account in SnapBill

First National Bank (FNB) recently released PayPal for South Africa after closing an exclusive deal with the international payment gateway. Consequently you may have heard the buzz emanating from SnapBill’s seamless integration of PayPal and be wondering how you, as a South African PayPal account holder, can enable and use this payment method. Read on to find out what the PayPal payment option in SnapBill entails, what you need to use the service and how to go about enabling it.

What the PayPal integration means for the South African user

If you are a FNB account holder you can now get a PayPal account which will not only allow you to send money, but also receive funds from millions of potential international customers.

SnapBill has recognised the potential this holds for it’s users and integrated PayPal to offer all SnapBill users and their clients another safe and easy way to get their SnapBill invoices paid.

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Development, SaaS, Tutorials

Templating language overview

The entire SnapBill system is designed under the realization that one-size-fits-all simply does not apply to billing.

For that reason, we bring you the SnapBill Template System.

The rest of this post is a rather technical summary of the syntax behind it.

The syntax draws inspiration from Markdown, a little from the PHP programming language as well as a few ideas from the template system in my pre-Ubuntu favourite music player foobar2000.

I’ve tried to keep it as easy to read as possible, but in quite a few places I have chosen to put power and flexibility first.

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