Shepherd- Having designed one of these in the past (in a higher level voice environment), I can tell you that this is not a small undertaking. It's at least as much an SQL job as a voice task.
Usually the way to accomplish this is to establish more-or-less a pre-paid phone card system, where the shop prepays an overall amount for international calling access. Then you have to time each call as it is occurring, debiting each account, and the master account, in real-time. This can be a bit complex when you have 20 or 30 calls going at one time. You have to cut them off promptly when the money runs out (big problem). And you have to provide call detail and charges to them at the end of each call, using their own retail tariff. To add to the complexity, each country has a different tariff from the long distance carrier, and within the country, major cities often have special rates per minute. Mobiles have a different tariff too. Phone card platforms usually include a least-cost routing system which chooses a carrier real time based on the call. Tariffs change weekly and must be updated in the system. Anyway, I'm just scratching the surface! I'll write more when I can! Cheers Scott Stingel Scott M. Stingel Emerging Voice Technology Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: www.evtmedia.com <http://www.evtmedia.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > shepherd fungayi > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk PBX Billing > > > Hi > > I would like to use the Asterisk PBX as part of a phone shop > system instead > of the usual PBX plus PC. How can I do the the billing in a > way that is > convinient to the phone shop attendant? > > Regards > > Shepherd > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
