[Asterisk-Users] Which free calling card app most suitedforcommercial use?

[Alex Vishnev]

I think the word "crap" is a pretty strong word and is not fare to the
authors. Everyone have their own requirements of how billing should or
should not work. Everyone is exposed to a different way a pre-paid calling
card platform should behave. I have been in pre-paid environment for almost
15 years and seen/implemented some "interesting" business models. All of
them depend on the provider and how the product is brought to market. Point
is, there will never be a unified billing system that will satisfy every
requirement of every pre-paid carrier in the world. I think these guys did a
good job showing the community how pre-paid billing should be implemented
and interfaced with asterisk and therefore deserve a credit for that. If you
don't like the way they implemented things, then contribute extensions or
patches. If you don't like the architecture and don't think a particular
approach can be extended, then contribute your own work and show everyone
that it is better. Until you do, avoid the words like "crap" when referring
to other people efforts.
Alex


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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kanuri, Seshu
(Company IT)
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:46 AM
To: snacktime; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Which free calling card app most
suitedforcommercial use?

My opinion is that both are Crap. Both of them have a flaw in their base
design, which is difficult to explain in a post like this. Suffice to
say that these two applications neither support nor designed for mutilpe
routes ( multiple Area codes with Destination groups) nor multiple rate
plans(Provider rates or buying rates and selling rates) nor multiple
business models(retail, wholesale, corporate customers)

Hence both of them cannot be the base for a commercial grade billing
system for a Calling card Model. These apps canot be used for a realtime
call control using CPD (Call Progress Detection) and Prepaid amounts for
a post-paid Billing and call disconnect. Without this very essential
feature for a commercial Calling card billing application, you would be
better off calculating the calls from the Master.csv file for a post
paid bill management.

AreskiCC is a little more thought-driven and hence can be improved upon.


If anyone is interested in developing a full fledged billing system, I
have created a deisgn document ( a very elaborate rough draft infact)
which I can share with you.

Seshu Kanuri

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of snacktime
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:30 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Which free calling card app most suited
forcommercial use?

I'm working on an * billing system, and instead of reinventing the wheel
I would prefer to use an existing codebase for the calling card portion.
The two that look most promising are astcc and the * prepaid billing
application that uses postgresql.

Any comments?

Chris 
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