In modern web applications knowing immediately when something is going wrong is vital in order to apologize to clients where necessary as well as fixing any problems.
Personally I find notifications via email the easiest (with backup via error log files), however many people choose to use exception tracking services such as Airbrake (previously Hoptoad), or Lighthouse.
I find Gmail combined with carefully written subjects is very handy as each exception is grouped along with similar ones.
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.
