Open Source Billing Systems

A2Billing, combined with Asterisk is a physical Telecom Platform and Soft-Switch providing a wide range of telecoms services using both traditional telephone technology or VoIP. It contains a real-time billing engine which rates and bills and invoices calls, and supports payment gateways.

This now gives any Telecom company a very good reason to consider the A2Billing Platform over the traditional offerings for TDM and VoIP Soft-Switches as well as wholesale billing.

Solutions

A2Billing can be used in a number of different roles, and our consultancy services can advise on the appropriate hardware and configuration of your Switch.

• Calling Card service with either PIN or Caller ID recognition
• Call-back service
• VoIP Billing
• VoIP termination for IP PBX systems
• Wholesale VoIP Termination and Origination
• Residential VoIP Termination and Origination.
• Special Applications Platforms
• Predictive Dialer and Sales Campaign Tool
• Hosted PBX, IP Centrex and Multi-tenant systems.
• VoIP reseller white label solutions.
• and much more 🙂

There is online demo available at http://demo.asterisk2billing.org/a2b/. For more information about any of the features and benefits of any of our products, please contact us at [email protected]. For A2Billing installation services, see http://www.star2billing.com/consultancy/managed-install/

Features:

• Provide call rating for Asterisk.
• Calling Cards
• Integrates with AMP (amp.coalescentsystems.ca)
• An “unlimited” amount of different price lists.
• Batch billing
• Realtime billing
• Rates are billed to 6 decimal places.
• Rates are highly configurable.
• Import rate lists in cvs format.
• Variable billing increments.
• Call setup charges.
• Resellers.
• Least Cost Routing
• Web interface provides:
• Card balances.
• Ability to configure routes.
• Ability to configure most of ASTPP.
• Setup Brands.
• Many other features.
• Interface for customers to view their calls.
• GPLed Source Code
• Integrated with OSCommerce!!

Open-source web application for rating and showing VoIP calls.

Features:

• Intuitive UI and dashboards: Based on ReactJS by Facebook, BillRun provides an intuitive user experience intended to simplify the billing process.
• Shared discounts and bundled services: Offset over-usage with under-usage for customers assigned to the same account. Special discounts can be applied by usage thresholds, by period, by value, by volume or combinations thereof.
• Ample flexibility and easy configuration: BillRun’s solution can be implemented for retail, B2B, wholesale, roaming, or convergence, including shared accounts by multiple subscribers. All data structures of customers, subscribers and other entities can be configured to facilitate data transfer and updates, interfacing easily with 3rd-party systems. A rich set of APIs makes BillRun an integral part of your IT apps, enabling you to receive updates from various enterprise applications.
• Infinite products and rates: Implement new, unlimited services and complex plans, or apply any measurable charging method to products, price lists, rates, payment methods, discounts, currencies, and charge by telephone prefix, volume, duration, geographic location, or distance.
• Sophisticated pricing and billing engine: Dynamic data-driven online-charging system (OCS) computes intricate usage-based charging of millions of prepaid subscribers – in real-time, while customers can view their balance at any given time.
• Prepaid subscribers: BillRun supports an unlimited number of resellers, and enables sending real-time reminders about nearing data consumption, or blocking or slowing subscriber access if/when required. Auto-renewable charging is available, as well as charging for games, music and other services through the Prepaid bill. Multi-channel charge enables subscribers to recharge one or more prepaid phones, using various methods. Charge capping is also provided.
• Discount management: Flexible, personalized discount management enables easy adding of new discounts and coupons, applied automatically to any 3rd party program, and eliminating the need to calculate individual discounts, thereby saving time and minimizing the risk of error.
• Varied data sources and multi-currency: BillRun interfaces with all protocol types, and associates them with customers, while providing multi-language support and multi-currency – available in the next few months.
• Reliable, tested and proven: Proven enterprise- and carrier-grade billing.
• Subscriber and partner management: Hierarchical structuring provides easy monitoring, including payment details, usage history, and detailed usage records (CDRs or IPDRs), supporting numerous partners, resellers and agent plans.
• Invoicing, payment and collection: BillRun provides flexible invoice template layouts, multiple taxes, gateways to credit cards and clearing houses, and supports any payment type. A sophisticated collection tool includes rule-based optimization for handling recurring payment requests and indebted customers.
• Subscriber and customer reports: Easy monitoring of subscriber usage and trends, with flexible filtering options, including for intricate usage plans requiring complex processing and computation.
• Secured through SSL encryption: Encryption and authentication fully secure subscriber information.

Overview

Freeside is the open-source billing, ticketing and account administration package for Internet Service Providers that now includes support for VoIP CDR rating and billing. Freeside supports Asterisk and many other CDR formats.

Freeside Internet Services also offers installation, integration, configuration, migration, training, and customization services.

Key Features

• Billing: Flexible pricing and rating plans including anniversary billing, pro-rating, usage-based billing and more. Plug-in system allows easy addition of new pricing plans. VoIP rating and billing, including DID inventory, rate plans, free minutes, caps, and 800# billing. Real-time credit card and electronic check processing with all major processing gateways. Email, fax, printed and online invoicing.
• Ticketing: Complete, integrated trouble ticketing system included, based on Request Tracker from Best Practical Solutions. Auto-responds to customer email assigns a ticket number and allows your staff to track requests collaboratively. Multiple queues, custom fields, templates, ticket associations, templates, customizable workflow, and more.
• Customer Service: Online signup page with immediate credit card authorization and provisioning. Customer self-care including invoice viewing, one-time and recurring payments, adding and removing services, and password changes. Simple API available to write your own self-service pages or applications.
• Resellers: Unlimited resellers with branded invoices, individual pricing, and payment gateways. Virtualized reseller access allows resellers access to only their own customers. Flexible, fine-grained access control

sip:provider CE is an open-source turn-key SIP platform for up to 50k subscribers. It comes with a powerful and flexible billing and rating engine for near-realtime post-paid billing.

It supports free-cash and free-time models per billing-interval, billing zones, billing destinations defined via regular expressions (based on E164 numbers or arbitrary SIP URIs), special offers (like “get 1000 free minutes to specific zones for the next 3 months”) and pre-configurable and arbitrarily changeable billing profiles per subscriber. Costs per call can be seen on the call list of the integrated user and admin panels immediately after the call. Admins can add up free cash or free minutes to an account at any time and can inspect spent money and free-time in the current billing interval. The sip:provider CE can be evaluated in virtualbox or vmware with just 3 clicks, and installed on a dedicated server in a couple of minutes.

PyFreeBilling is a full open-source solution providing all needed features for a wholesale activity: Prepaid/postpaid, advanced rates and routing management, nice GUI … and based on the famous switch FreeSwitch.

License: GPL
English – Spanish – French
This Cyberhotel version, is for embedded Broadcom plateform like routers ASUS RTN or some Cisco E serie with USB

• It include a classic php interface for PBX administration and Cyberhotel module
• It include also a captive portal system for wifi access control.
• It’s finally also a very great DD-WRT rooter

Gui is pure realtime display, billing is built on a switch with advanced routing features as LCR, SIP carrier backup or on the gateway. This is not an experimental version, but tested a long time in production in big Hotels and can have our full support.

Hospitality Management System:

• Web Page: http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4992
• License: GPL

Open Source Billing Tools and Libraries

VoIP Peering and Accounting using OSP

• OpenOSP server written in C.
• RAMS OSP server written in Java.
• OSP Toolkit – OSP client stack written in C.

TelDaBase

CDRTool:

• https://www.ag-projects.com/CDRTool.html
• License: GPL

• http://www.gnugk.org/sqlbill.html
• License: GPL

FBilling

• https://github.com/alkali147/fbilling
• License: BSD