Revision as of 02:45, 11 July 2007

Add support for custom CDR format

• As discussed during on-site visit.
• 12 hours of work already purchased, should be sufficient

Prepaid usage limits

• Enable the existing usage-limiting counters for the prepaid price plan.
• Small amount of work

Package-specific prepaid cards

• Prepaid card autogeneration should lock prepaid cards into a specific set of packages.
• Medium amount of work.

More flexible frequency (prepaid duration) specification

• Add # options to part_pkg.freq (3 hours, 3 days, etc.)
• Small amount of work.

Inventory

• Add the ability to blank out inventory for a specific inventory class completely.
• Add the ability to remove a single item from inventory, without provisioning to a customer.
• Small amount of work.

Prepaid printer integration

Process flow

• TAG unit requests a prepaid card (or username) from freeside, passes along TAG unit identifier, which led# and a shared secret:

https://example.com//keygen.cgi?nsid=NNN;secret=XXXXX;led=X

(Freeside stores/verifies shared secret for each nsid)

• Prepaid card is generated on-the-fly by Freeside and sent back to TAG unit.

• Freeside sends back a formatted receipt ready for printing, from one of the three following templates:
  • Error template
  • PIN (prepaid card) template for one-time users
  • Username/password template for recurring users

• Tag unit prints the receipt/ticket received from Freeside

• Freeside stores the NSID along with the generated prepaid card.

• User uses the prepaid card to signup normally (or the existing username/password to sign on)

• NSID from prepaid card is stored on the customer record on signup.

Additional flow option

• Freeside auto-creates account and sends back ticket with user/pass

• user uses user/pass directly

Implementation

Schema changes

• Add nsid table
  • nsid int primary_key
  • shared_secret
  • essid
  • wep_key
  • template_custnum

• Add nsid2pkgpart table:
  • nsid int foreign_key on (nsid)
  • led char(1) 0-9,a,c,e,f
  • pkgpart foreign_key on (part_pkg)

Configuration changes

• Add three templates to Conf.pm for printing on the receipt printer:
  • Error template
  • PIN (prepaid card) template for one-time users
  • Username/password template for recurring users

• w/substitution variables:
  • username
  • password
  • (instead of username/password) prepaid card #
  • part_pkg
  • part_pkg.recur (well, part_pkg->option('recur_fee') )
  • usage time (part_pkg option?)
  • essid
  • wep_key
  • date
  • serial #

Backend changes

• View/Edit for NSID table
  • browse/nsid.cgi
  • edit/nsid.cgi
  • edit/process/nsid.cgi

Self-service changes

• Write keygen.cgi implementing behaviour above
• Backend implementation in FS/FS/ClientAPI/Teletronics.pm

Scope

• Medium/large amount of work.