[asterisk-biz] VoIP solution based on Asterisk for prepaid/postpaid billing

Thu Feb 16 22:28:43 CST 2012

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list to  discuss an open source solution as per your requirements

Following is demo site developed over Drupal / Ubercart and A2billing /
asterisk

http://www.call4smile.com

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*Tahir Almas*

Managing Partner
ICT Innovations
http://www.ictinnovations.com
Leveraging open source in ICT

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On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Alistair Cunningham <
acunningham at integrics.com> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> I'd recommend taking a look at Enswitch. Please see inline below for my
> comments on each of your points. More details can be found at:
>
> http://integrics.com/enswitch/
>
> If you're interested, please drop me an email off list and we can discuss
> system configurations and pricing.
>
> Alistair Cunningham
> +1 888 468 3111
> +44 20 799 39 799
> http://integrics.com/
>
>
> On 11/02/12 18:54, Mark Scholten wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Currently we are looking for a solution that offers a prepaid solution
>> and a
>> postpaid solution for the following:
>>
>
> Both prepaid and postpaid are fully supported.
>
>
>  - Outward calling to all allowed numbers
>>
>
> Fully supported.
>
>
>  - Inward DID (with for certain DIDs a rate per minute, but always a rate
>> per
>> month)
>>
>
> Fully supported, including a purchase price for the number, monthly price
> for the number, and optional connection fee, per minute fee, billing
> increment, free seconds, and overall minimum for inbound calls.
>
>  - Fax ->  email
>>
>
> Fully supported using T.30, and also optionally for T.38 using the Digium
> fax driver.
>
>
>  - Free phone calls to numbers on the same system
>>
>
> Fully supported.
>
>
>  - No pay per SIP/client account (for the license fee we pay if a license
>> fee
>> has to be paid)
>>
>
> Supported. Enswitch pricing is based on the maximum concurrent calls the
> cluster supports, and the number of machines in the cluster.
>
>
>  - Option to set a fee per SIP account
>>
>
> Fully supported. You can set purchase prices and monthly prices for every
> PBX feature - SIP accounts, mailboxes, queues, hunt groups, IVR menus, etc,
> etc, etc.
>
>
>  - Option to have different fees depending on what the client has ordered
>> (1
>> SIP account cost more per account compared to having 10 SIP accounts)
>>
>
> Supported via multiple rate plans. If you enable self-signup, customers
> can choose which rate plan they want at sign up. Otherwise, you can choose
> for them.
>
>
>  - Incoming/outgoing using SIP trunks
>>
>
> Fully supported.
>
>
>  - Billing via WHMCS/external tools (an API for this is nice, but getting
>> the
>> data from a database is also possible),
>>
>
> Fully supported via SOAP API, direct MySQL access, or CSV export
>
>
>  creating invoices that are created
>> directly can be disabled per account (or are not possible at all)
>>
>
> Fully supported. Invoices can be PDF, XML, or disabled, and the amount of
> detail on the invoice (e.g. full CDRs versus grouped CDRs) can be set per
> customer. In the latest version, PDF invoices are generated from an HTML
> that you can set per rate plan.
>
>
>  Nice to have (not required):
>> - Email ->  fax
>>
>
> Fully supported.
>
>  - Voicemail
>>
>
> Fully supported, and has various features beyond normal Asterisk voicemail
> such as outbound calling for notifications, SMS notifications, broadcast to
> multiple mailboxes, etc, etc.
>
>
>  - HA solution (possible across multiple datacenters/networks)
>>
>
> Fully support in all but the smallest configurations. We have customers
> with over 150,000 users and many thousands of concurrent calls on large
> clusters. Clusters can be geographically distributed across multiple data
> centers if the network supports it - we can discuss this in more detail if
> you like.
>
>
>  - Multiple outgoing/incoming SIP trunks, with automatic detection for the
>> best rate to use for an outgoing call
>>
>
> Fully supported, plus automatic failover between outbound carriers.
>
>  - Reseller options
>>
>
> Fully supported. Resellers can manage their own customers and pricing,
> paying you for their features according to prices you set. The system takes
> care of resellers charging end customers, and you charging resellers.
> Resellers can brand the web interface as their own product if you let them.
> Multiple levels of resellers are supported.
>
>  - API
>>
>
> There is a very complete SOAP API - anything that can be done on the web
> interface can be done via the SOAP API. You also have root read/write
> access to the MySQL database, and are welcome to add your own tables and
> columns if you wish.
>
>
>  - Easy to provide list of prices (CSV import)
>>
>
> Fully supported.
>
>  - SMS options
>>
>
> Optionally fully supported, for inbound, outbound, and notifications for
> voicemails, faxes, and alerts (which are triggers you create for unusual
> conditions such as potentially fraudulent calls). This is not part of the
> base Enswitch product as it requires some integration work with an external
> SMS gateway, but we usually provide it at no extra cost.
>
>
>  The requirements are what we now offer to our clients (monthly fee
>> prepaid,
>> calling fee postpaid), but offering the other options (nice to have) are a
>> nice additional service. Also offering 100% prepaid is a nice additional
>> option.
>>
>> What options (paid/free) are available for as far as you know?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Mark Scholten
>>
>>
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