[Freeswitch-users] Billing options

[William King]

Some others on the mailing list use Jerasoft billing system and
mod_xml_radius.

William King
Senior Engineer
Quentus Technologies, INC
1037 NE 65th St Suite 273
Seattle, WA 98115
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william.king at quentustech.com

On 01/30/2014 07:29 AM, Callum Guy wrote:
> Thanks Avi, that looks like a neat little solution for billing.
> Unfortunately my requirements are for pre and post-pay billing and
> rating so i'm looking for options for a comprehensive package. 
> 
> I'm having a good look at the products listed on the wiki
> page http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Billing_Solutions of which ASTPP
> looks the best so far but i'm not finding answers in the documentation
> so i'm reaching out to the community for peoples experience.
> 
> Thanks again
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> On 30 January 2014 11:36, Avi Marcus <avi at avimarcus.net
> <mailto:avi at avimarcus.net>> wrote:
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>     I ended up writing my own rating system...
> 
>     It sets the rate before hand, has a channel limit per account, and
>     will schedule a cutoff when the balance reaches 0.
>     It's not perfect for pre-bill (when you allow multiple channels and
>     it's near 0 balance) but it's pretty good and has a full trail in
>     the CDRs (as long as nothing crashes...)
> 
>     <action application="log" data="DEBUG Setting user outbound channel limit to 3."/>
>     <action application="limit" data="hash outbound 1435 3"/>
>     <action application="log" data="DEBUG Remaining for 1 channel: 543 minutes - 32597 seconds."/>
>     <action application="export" data="nolocal:api_on_answer=sched_transfer +32597 ${uuid} cutoff_incall"/>
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>     -Avi
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>     On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Callum Guy <callum.guy at x-on.co.uk
>     <mailto:callum.guy at x-on.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi All,
> 
>         I have been looking at some options for handling pre and post
>         pay billing operations and wanted to ask the community for any
>         feedback they might have.
> 
>         The obvious starting choice would be mod_nibblebill however i am
>         unclear about the maturity of this module and its flexibility
>         with ever changing rates and destinations, although I could
>         probably work around it if stable. Part of me also wonders if
>         inclusion of billing in heartbeat events is going to affect
>         performance at peak times.
> 
>         Another option being considered is the following and i'd be keen
>         to hear from anyone with experience of this software:
> 
>         http://portaone.com/portabilling/
> 
>         It offers complete pre and post pay billing solution via radius,
>         sounds like a clean and simple implementation but i'm struggling
>         to anyone who has used it for a realistic review!
> 
>         Thanks,
> 
>         Callum
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