As rates change of the course of a month, it would be nice to know what the rate was at the time of the call.
some "detail records" :) On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:37:13PM -0600, Eric Wieling wrote: > I personally think the "right" place to deal with billing is in your > billing application. Your billing application should know about special > rates for different customers, time of day rates, destination rates, > etc. There is already enough information in the CDR to know which > provider you are going thru. i.e. fields 6 and 8 in the CDR logs. > > These are Call Detail Record logs, not Call Billing Logs. 8-) > > If your billing application can't handle this, it should be pretty easy > to build a small preprocessing application for the log files. > > Why invent something new when you can reuse existing tools to do all or > most of the job? > > On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:08, John Brown (CV) wrote: > > So what do people think about adding the "call rate" to the CDR > > structure?? > > > > This would allow you to detail a call with the rate that was > > in affect for that call. When you come back later and do > > the billing for the customer you would have the actual per min > > rate in the record. > > > > I think this solves an issue when you have changing rates and > > multiple providers. If one provider is down, and you use > > a back up you can track the "rate" better. > > > > In fact as I type this, I think we should have > > > > cost_rate the rate you where charged for this call > > cust_rate the rate you charge your customer for this call > > > > > > > > or is their a better way to do this. > > > > > > john brown, ceo > > chagres technologies, inc (US) > > chagres technologies, BV (EMEA) opening soon > > Providers of VoIP hardware > > http://www.chagres.net/products/voip/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- > Now with links to Unofficial Asterisk pages! > http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=documentation > > BTEL Consulting 504-899-1387 or 850-484-4545 or 877-677-9643 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
