[Asterisk-Users] Rodopi Billing

[Jeremy McNamara]

Greg Boehnlein wrote:


> We use Platypus from Boardtown, which was just acquired by Tucows. 
> Although it has it's quirks, having seen Rodopi, Emerald, Prism and 
> ISPEasy in action, I'll take Platypus ANY day!
> 
> I have a method for hacking VoIP per minute billing into Platypus, but I 
> haven't executed it yet. Basically, we dump all of our CDR records to a 
> database. On a daily basis, we can tally up the the per-minute LD totals 
> for each customer and then insert a Radius Start/Stop record w/ the total 
> billing seconds for that day. Platypus's built in rate tables take care of 
> the rest. We provide 1,000 minutes of long distance with each account, so 
> at the end of the month when Platypus tallies up it's overage charges, if 
> the usage exceeds the limit, it bills the customer accordingly.
> 

If that customer is still around to pay you.


Billing for services such as VoIP should be in real-time, anything less 
is unacceptable in my book.



Jeremy McNamara