[Asterisk-Users] CDRs and billing

[Chris Mason (Lists)]

Joao Pereira wrote:
> Hello
> I configured Asterisk to put CDRs in the database like it was 
> explained in:
>  www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cdr+pgsql
>
> What I want to know is how do the billing solutions (like 
> Asterisk2Billing) work with Asterisk.
>
> The billing system just use the information that Asterisk puts in the 
> CDR table?
> Or they connect directly to Asterisk?
> Or is Asterisk that has, before the Dial command, to put the 
> information on the Asterisk2Billing tables?
>
Asterisk2Billing requires you route the calls to its AGI, and it keeps 
its own database, so what you did is of no use for billing. I haven't 
found an application that bills from the CDRs, everything I found wanted 
to create the database entries. I think ASTPP can read your CDR, though.

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