A2Billing - VoIP-Info

http://www.asterisk2billing.org/
http://www.star2billing.com/

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 Dialler and Sales Campaign Tool
Hosted PBX, IP Centrex and Multi-tenant systems.
VoIP reseller white label solutions.

Main Features

Products

Different billing options, including straight per second billing through to free minutes, and free calls, stepped billing and subscriptions,
Documented Admin interface for complete management of customers and products.
DID Billing, provisioning, and delivery.
Voucher Creation for Pre paid card topups.

Reporting

Detailed CDR including buy and sell rates, margin and markup
Carrier reconciliation reports.
Profit and Loss reports.
Customer activity.

Resellers

Simple to use web interface for resellers and agents to add, manage and control their own customers.
Create links from reseller websites to A2Billing so that customers are automatically assigned to the agent, and commissions correctly paid.
Reports and statistics for agents and resellers.

Customers

Customer portal with access to online payment options
DID purchasing
Call forwarding
Online invoices.
Call data records
Rate simulator.

A2Billing Features in detail:-

Customer Management

Add Customers
Generate numbers of customer and calling cards.
Prepaid and post-paid customers
Flexible Auto Account debit
Auto Refill
Credit Limit notifications by email
Bulk updates to customers
Multiple expiry options for cards.
Percentage discounts on a per customer basis
Customer history and CRM
Customer Grouping
Import from legacy calling card platforms
Customer Trouble Tickets and support management
Multi Currency support
Mass Mail delivery with customer grouping
Customisable mail templates for customer actions and events.
Call recording

VoIP CPE Options

IAX2 and SIP Protocol supported
SIP over TCP for Microsoft OCS supported on request.
Flexible VoIP Authentication methods:-

o Username and password
o IP Authentication
o 5+ digit prefix authentication

Caller ID Manipulation
Multiple Codecs
Multiple VoIP CPE per customer account

Call-through, Calling Card and Call-back services

PIN Authentication
Caller ID authentication
Auto Provisioning
Attach Caller ID to Card automatically
Flexible IVR,

o Balance IVR
o Rate to Destination,
o Time available to call to destination
o Custom Prompts

Multi-language Support
Caller ID Delivery
Call-back A and B leg Billing
Web, DID and ANI based call-back
Follow on calls
Caller ID manipulation via IVR
Speed Dials
Last number dialled

Traffic Reporting

Detailed CDR
Margin and Mark-up per call
Export to XML or CSV format
Detailed reporting:-

o Calls by User & by Destination
o Statistics by Trunk
+ ASR+ ALOC+ CIC+ Total Callso Reports based on DNID
o Profit and Loss reports
o Daily traffic reporting with Graphing
o Monthly Traffic comparison

Detailed Dashboard giving at a glance statistics

o Customer Info
o Refill Information on time periods
o Payment info by Month
o Daily Call information

Rating Engine

Selection of Rates based on Least Cost Routing or Least Cost Dialling
Automatic selection of route across multiple carriers.
Carrier rates for Carrier reconciliation and accounting.
Sell Rates with multiple options, including stepped billing
Bulk import of Rates
Rate simulator
Easy updating of existing rates via the merge facility
Detailed searching, and bulk updates of rates
LCR Export facility.
Rate Simulator
Selection of Rate-card based on:-

o DNID
o Caller ID

Supported Trunks

VoIP Trunks:-

o SIP
o IAX
o H323 (on application)

Line Cards

o Analogue
o PRI
o BRI
o GSM

Failover Trunk
Capacity Limits, with Failover
Provider Grouping for carrier reconciliation

DID Delivery

Billing options for DID based on subscription and/or dial out rate
Free calls between customers.
Calls between customers routed directly
Deliver calls to customers via VoIP or via trunks.
DHCP endpoints supported
Failover destinations.
Detailed Statistics
DID Import Facility
DIDX API

Billing, Invoicing & Payments

Voucher based top-up system
Customer Balance, with Debt control
Detailed refill, payment, and transaction logs for customers and agents
Multiple online payment methods, including PlugnPay, Paypal and Moneybookers
Control and management of manual payments
Invoices automatically generated monthly
Manual preparation of invoices for ad-hoc payments
Package offers, offering free minutes and calls to certain destinations
Subscription packages

Agent Functionality

Commission agents supported
Assign different products to different agents
Affiliate web based marketing, for online signup
Agents have optional management and control over customers

o View, add create and delete
o Billing
o Call Reports
o Support Tickets
o Bulk Create
o Signup
o Customisable sign up screen.

Credit customer account
Purchase Credit from Admin for top-ups

Customer Interface

Password Management
Aide Memoire for SIP or IAX authentication
Call History
Payment History
Voucher Input
Invoice, and invoice payment via online payment provider
Top-up online
Purchase and manage DID
Speed Dials
Rate Card display and export
Rate simulator
Web based call-back
Caller ID authentication
Generate trouble Ticket
Email Notifications for low balance
Edit personal Information
View and download recorded conversations
Online Sign-up

Conclusion

For more information about any of the features and benfits of any of our products, please contact us at :
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