This company manages an automated teller machine network — controlling the ATMs and moving money between banks — and is upgrading its billing system, according to a pilot fish who’s working on the project.

And the new features aren’t exactly simple. “The new release would allow a rolled-up integer count of items to be charged, integrated with the various pricing schemes including tiered pricing, parent pricing, and child-pays-full-price-while-parent-gets-discount pricing,” fish says.

Fortunately, the team is well into the testing stage and the worst of the complications are past.

At least that’s what fish thinks, until the lead user in the billing department tells fish his people have come up with a new idea: That item count could also be used as a money field — dollars and cents — to report the total transaction value.

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