ARB and CIM are they interchangeable?

[breweclasp]

Hi all,

I have recently taken over development work for a startup insurance company and we are already using the CIM to process payments and want to start a recurring payments system.  Is ARB an add-on "like" product for the CIM or is it a separate system all together.  Our system was built on Ruby on Rails by another developer and I have been trying to decide whether to write my own automated billing system using our database and RoR or use ARB; but I haven't been able to find any documentation to clarify.

I have skimmed the API documentation for ARB and CIM but found no clear answer.

Any ideas?

[breweclasp]

Hi all,

I have recently taken over development work for a startup insurance company and we are already using the CIM to process payments and want to start a recurring payments system.  Is ARB an add-on "like" product for the CIM or is it a separate system all together.  Our system was built on Ruby on Rails by another developer and I have been trying to decide whether to write my own automated billing system using our database and RoR or use ARB; but I haven't been able to find any documentation to clarify.

I have skimmed the API documentation for ARB and CIM but found no clear answer.

Any ideas?

[TJPride]

ARB is a separate add-on system with separate fees (CIM = $20/mo, ARB = $10/mo). It's also, in my opinion, significantly more difficult to integrate for the first time, especially if you're already using CIM. My advice would be to just set up an automated script to generate charges every morning through CIM. If there are too many charges to comfortably run in sequence, use forks or threading or whatever and run multiples in parallel.