<DIV><BR>hi, all<BR> Can't we go for development of Basic Billing solution in OPEN Source with SER only .. I mean we can make Billing Model ready and can go ahead with the same.<BR>Does anyone find any issue in same ... ? I think if we can do this .. it will be very helpful for many people .... Please let me know</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><B><I>Iqbal <iqbal@gigo.co.uk></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>Hi<BR><BR>The reason why no one is really discussing much about billing here as<BR>open source is that most have rolled there own.<BR><BR>serweb is a good starting point, but it is not a rating engine, it will<BR>just work out how long the call is.<BR><BR>1. Now when you have this length of call you need to work out how much<BR>its cost you, and how much it cost the end user...<BR><BR>2. For this you need to create a rates table or database<BR><BR>3. What I have is a prefix table which has 1800+ prefixes each one of<BR>these is bound to a gateway, and hence can be routed out differently,<BR>when required<BR><BR>4. I then have a cost table, this is what my buying price is<BR><BR>5. I then have a selling price table<BR><BR>6. For resellers we are building a drill down structure where they have<BR>there buying price and selling price<BR><BR>7. Now you need a rating
structure<BR><BR>8. You may have a different price based on time of day and day of week<BR>etc etc<BR><BR>9. So now you have price per prefix, based on time of day and day of week<BR><BR>10. You see when call is made you do the maths and work out the cost to<BR>you , and cost to customers, if the former is lesser than the latter ur<BR>making money :-), at a gross level, if not, bad business model :-)<BR><BR>12. Different types of cutomers may get charged differently, i.e large<BR>corporates should always pay more, hence your price may also vary based<BR>on customer_type<BR><BR>13. Now if its postpaid you need to also do a bill run once a month,<BR>convert to pdf, and email out, just to make things easy, and then link<BR>to your legacy accounting system..<BR><BR>So you see everyone will have something slightly different, but I hope<BR>the above steps may help<BR><BR>Iqbal<BR><BR>On 5/21/2005, "Ollie Gejevski" <OLLIE.G@CYNERIC.COM>wrote:<BR><BR>>Hey guys,<BR>>I notice quite a
few people are looking for a Billing solution. Please<BR>>contact me as I can help. We already have few companies from this board use<BR>>our solution with great success. We are Cisco as well as SIP server (<BR>>SER, SNOM ) compatible. Check out our website HYPERLINK<BR>>"http://www.cyneric.com"www.cyneric.com Please contact me HYPERLINK<BR>>"mailto:ollie.g@cyneric.com"ollie.g@cyneric.com for more information. All<BR>>the best<BR>> <BR>>Ollie<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>>--<BR>>No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR>>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.<BR>>Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.13 - Release Date: 5/19/2005<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Serusers mailing list<BR>serusers@lists.iptel.org<BR>http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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