Re: [Serusers] VoIp Billing Solution SIP server compatible!!!

hi, all 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. 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 Regards Manoj Ghag Iqbal <iqbal(a)gigo.co.uk> wrote: Hi The reason why no one is really discussing much about billing here as open source is that most have rolled there own. serweb is a good starting point, but it is not a rating engine, it will just work out how long the call is. 1. Now when you have this length of call you need to work out how much its cost you, and how much it cost the end user... 2. For this you need to create a rates table or database 3. What I have is a prefix table which has 1800+ prefixes each one of these is bound to a gateway, and hence can be routed out differently, when required 4. I then have a cost table, this is what my buying price is 5. I then have a selling price table 6. For resellers we are building a drill down structure where they have there buying price and selling price 7. Now you need a rating structure 8. You may have a different price based on time of day and day of week etc etc 9. So now you have price per prefix, based on time of day and day of week 10. You see when call is made you do the maths and work out the cost to you , and cost to customers, if the former is lesser than the latter ur making money :-), at a gross level, if not, bad business model :-) 12. Different types of cutomers may get charged differently, i.e large corporates should always pay more, hence your price may also vary based on customer_type 13. Now if its postpaid you need to also do a bill run once a month, convert to pdf, and email out, just to make things easy, and then link to your legacy accounting system.. So you see everyone will have something slightly different, but I hope the above steps may help Iqbal On 5/21/2005, "Ollie Gejevski" wrote: _______________________________________________ Serusers mailing list serusers(a)lists.iptel.org http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone.