Dear Sirs, we ... 1) buy minutes from other providers 2) sell minutes to out clients some calls terminate to our equipment, others - to h323 proxies. we want calls to be routed according to costs (a route is chosen from many by lowest cost). at the end of it, we'd like to bill our clients and see how much have we earned (money we receive from client on one side, money we pay to proxies on other side). is there any billing for asterisk which can do that ? Cheers, Kate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070905/aaea9264/attachment.htm
On 9/5/07, Kate Kretz <kate.kretz at gmail.com> wrote:> Dear Sirs, > > we ... > > > 1) buy minutes from other providers > 2) sell minutes to out clients > > some calls terminate to our equipment, others - to h323 proxies. > we want calls to be routed according to costs (a route is chosen from many > by lowest cost). > > at the end of it, we'd like to bill our clients and see how much have we > earned (money we receive from client on one side, money we pay to > proxies on other side). > > > is there any billing for asterisk which can do that ? > >Honestly.... I've looked and I've looked and I've looked. There IS NO out-of-the-box, compatible with Asterisk solution that does any sort of billing & provisioning for a reasonable price. None. However you can find 90% of the functions you need -- call rating & least cost routing as free open source and have your programmer write the glue you need. Take a look at the voip-info.org site and also google.com. You'll probably also get some emails from a few people offering you solutions starting around 20K. The Didx people sell their billing solution for something like USD 50K, if not more.... I dont recall the exact number but it was way overpriced they can barely write a user friendly UI honestly. If you are willing to spend this much, evaluate with great care and make sure you get a written warranty which explicitly spells out the feature set you are expecting! DO NOT purchase anything from "AgileCO" or "AgileBill" they are a scam we paid them almost $10,000 and their product is crap and NOONE will answer your phone calls, much less email messages.
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 22:44 +0600, Kate Kretz wrote:> Dear Sirs, > > we ... > > > 1) buy minutes from other providers > 2) sell minutes to out clients > > some calls terminate to our equipment, others - to h323 proxies. > we want calls to be routed according to costs (a route is chosen from > many by lowest cost). > > at the end of it, we'd like to bill our clients and see how much have > we earned (money we receive from client on one side, money we pay to > proxies on other side). > > > is there any billing for asterisk which can do that ? >Yes, We are using a2billing [1]. You can define serveral trunks and add rates for the destinations, the a2billing can use low cost routing and gives to you a detailed call detail record with the ammount of sell, buy, profit, margin and markup. You can learn to use with this small guide (spanish): http://www.ecualug.org/?q=2006/12/12/comos/configurar_a2billing_en_menos_de_10_minutos [1] www.asterisk2billing.org Regards, -- Guillermo Salas M. Telconet S.A. Calle 15 y Avenida 24 Esq Edificio Barre #2 Primer Piso Telefono : +593 5 262 8071 Celular : +593 9 985 5138 e-mail : gsalas at manta.telconet.net www : http://www.manta.telconet.net http://www.telcocarrier.net SIP : 666 at sip.manta.telconet.net FWD : 558563 Linux User: 255902 Beat me, whip me, make me use Windows! Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Please avoid the Top Posting, see http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
Dear Guillermo; Is there an english link that help me in configuration other than: http://www.ecualug.org/?q=2006/12/12/comos/configurar_a2billing_en_menos_de_10_minutos Also, what about ASTCC? Another issue: a2billing support prepaid billing (so it can be used for calling cards)? Regards, ITS - Telecom Group IP Telephony And Contact Center Engineer Eng. Bilal Ghayad Mobile: 009659849460> Dear Sirs, > > we ... > > > 1) buy minutes from other providers > 2) sell minutes to out clients > > some calls terminate to our equipment, others - toh323 proxies.> we want calls to be routed according to costs (aroute is chosen from> many by lowest cost). > > at the end of it, we'd like to bill our clients andsee how much have> we earned (money we receive from client on one side,money we pay to> proxies on other side). > > > is there any billing for asterisk which can do that?>Yes, We are using a2billing [1]. You can define serveral trunks and add rates for the destinations, the a2billing can use low cost routing and gives to you a detailed call detail record with the ammount of sell, buy, profit, margin and markup. You can learn to use with this small guide (spanish): http://www.ecualug.org/?q=2006/12/12/comos/configurar_a2billing_en_menos_de_10_minutos [1] www.asterisk2billing.org Regards, -- Guillermo Salas M. Telconet S.A. Calle 15 y Avenida 24 Esq Edificio Barre #2 Primer Piso Telefono : +593 5 262 8071 Celular : +593 9 985 5138 e-mail : gsalas at manta.telconet.net www : http://www.manta.telconet.net http://www.telcocarrier.net SIP : 666 at sip.manta.telconet.net FWD : 558563 Linux User: 255902 Beat me, whip me, make me use Windows! Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Please avoid the Top Posting, see http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow
You can try MOR: www.kolmisoft.com/mor It does what you need. It does it even in FREE version. PRO version costs _many_ times less then other not free solutions mentioned in this thread. Regards/Pagarbiai, Mindaugas Kezys http://www.kolmisoft.com From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kate Kretz Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:45 PM To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] special kind of billing Dear Sirs, we ... 1) buy minutes from other providers 2) sell minutes to out clients some calls terminate to our equipment, others - to h323 proxies. we want calls to be routed according to costs (a route is chosen from many by lowest cost). at the end of it, we'd like to bill our clients and see how much have we earned (money we receive from client on one side, money we pay to proxies on other side). is there any billing for asterisk which can do that ? Cheers, Kate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070910/be35268e/attachment.htm