Difference between revisions of "Freeside:3:Documentation:Administration:VoIP"

Revision as of 10:34, 5 December 2013

• Rate plans - You can edit regions/prefixes, rates and rate plans under Configuration | Billing | View/Edit call rates and regions
  • Sample scripts for importing initial rate information are available in bin/rate.import and bin/rate-us.import
  • Region groups can be configured to group similar regions together for included minute billing

• Service definitions (Configuration | Provisioning, services and packages | View/edit service definitions) - Service definitions for VoIP are setup as svc_phone services. Set countrycode to "fixed (unchangeable)" and to your country code ("1" for US, Canada, NANP countries). You can optionally use the inventory stuff to assign DID#s from a pool for svc_phone services. You can optionally use an internal_did export to assign DID#s from the internal phone number inventory.

• Package definitions (Configuraiton | Provisioning, services and packages | View/edit package definitions) - Package definitions for VoIP are setup using the "VoIP/telco CDR rating (standard)" price plan.
  • Pick a "Rate plan" from above.
  • Make sure to set a "Recurring fee frequency"
  • Don't change the "Region rating method"
  • Minutes included when using the "single price per minute" or "prefix" rating method: Can be used to offer free minutes in packages.

• Pre-rating CDRs - The daemon freeside-cdrrated runs continuously, searches for CDRs which can be pre-rated, and rates them.
  • Configuration options
    • cdr-prerate: Enables pre-rating of CDR's (Freeside restart required)
    • cdr-prerate-typenums: Determines which CDR's will be pre-rated
  • Current configuration incompatibilities
    • Included minutes: Not considered when pre-rating CDR's.
    • bill_inactive_svcs: CDR's can only be pre-rated when the charged party or source matches an existing,non-canceled svc_phone service.

• You can import CDRs directly into the Freeside database using cdr_pgsql or cdr_mysql, or you can import CDRs from CSV files under Tools | Import | Import Call Detail Records (CDRs) from CSV file. Both methods have been used with success.

• cdr.charged_party from imported CDRs is matched to svc_phone.phonenum in a provisioned phone service

• You can view simple reports of CDRs (unprocessed vs. processed) under Reports | Rating data | Call Detail Records (CDRs)

• 800/877/etc. calls should be correctly handled by rating based on the originating region rather than the destination region. If you want toll-free usage to be billed at different rates than outgoing calls, you can use a different package definition and rate plan.

• To attach a CSV file of CDRs to customer invoices:
  • Enable the voip-cust_email_csv_cdr config option
  • Enable the "Attach CDRs as CSV to emailed invoices" checkbox on one or more customers

See Also

• 3rd_party_software/Asterisk Discusses how cdr_pgsql is setup to record CDR entries into Freeside.
• Timed Rates - a new feature in 2.1.