<story><title>Pains of building your own billing system</title><url>https://arnon.dk/the-14-pains-of-billing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dns_snek</author><text>Fascinating, is there ever a point where this &amp;quot;magic money&amp;quot; legally becomes your property, after a certain amount of time?</text></item><item><author>chasd00</author><text>I worked on a billing and AR system for a small pharmacy chain years ago. Our company would get pretty large random checks from ins carriers totally out of the blue. As in, we had billed them nothing and they would send us $150k checks in snail mail. They wouldn’t realize their mistake and come asking for it back for months.  We had a special account named “magic money” for it. The billing world is crazy town.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>Check with a lawyer, this varies all over the world and you don&amp;#x27;t want to mess this up.  Not only might the money become theirs again, it might become theirs with interest. Though you might be able to charge them storage fees. don&amp;#x27;t forget that laws change so keep in touch with your lawyers so they notify you when laws changes so you can remain complaint.  Make sure you keep record of what the lawyers say as well - if (when?) you mess something up record of trying to do the right thing can work to your favor in court.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pains of building your own billing system</title><url>https://arnon.dk/the-14-pains-of-billing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dns_snek</author><text>Fascinating, is there ever a point where this &amp;quot;magic money&amp;quot; legally becomes your property, after a certain amount of time?</text></item><item><author>chasd00</author><text>I worked on a billing and AR system for a small pharmacy chain years ago. Our company would get pretty large random checks from ins carriers totally out of the blue. As in, we had billed them nothing and they would send us $150k checks in snail mail. They wouldn’t realize their mistake and come asking for it back for months.  We had a special account named “magic money” for it. The billing world is crazy town.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>indymike</author><text>In the US, you are supposed to turn it over to the state, and the government holds it for an extremely long time until it&amp;#x27;s owner claims it.</text></comment>