[asterisk-users] Asterisk Realtime Billing Question???

[DHAVAL INDRODIYA]

Hi Sherwood ,

well , i think you did not understand my question , i want real time billing
like as i mentioned that if i want to dial 5 number with different call rate
how can i access same
balance into those 5 people, if all are connected how can i periodically
update billing , as you suggested it will assign total balance to those 5
people but actually we can not do like this as total balance of user $100 ,
as per your suggestion it will give $100 for those 5 people which is
practically wrong i think.

give your thougts.

regards
dhaval

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Sherwood McGowan <
sherwood.mcgowan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, DHAVAL INDRODIYA <
> dhaval.it01034 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> after so long time i posted a new question regarding billing, hope  anyone
>> have some solution.
>>
>> I have situation in that i want to do billing of more than 1 call in real
>> time below are scenario and explanation.
>>
>>
>> Scenario:
>>  A customer called my DID number and after that from here i dial few
>> number let say 5 number. once number are placed into DIAL
>> i will put this customer into conference [MEETME] , once a Members are
>> picked up call they will also patched into conference and
>> talking is started, every thing working fine with DIAL-PLAN and DB look
>> up.
>>
>> Now, i want to do billing on customer dialed my DID, and from that
>> actually it DIALED 5 numbers, how can i DO real time billing
>> into this situation, like numbers can be different It can be ISD,STD,Local
>> and also free .
>>
>> if customer having initial balance of $100 then how can i check balance
>> every time.in a situation once balance is nil then i want to disconnect
>> calls . is any one facing this type of situation.
>>
>> give me some  idea ,
>>
>> regards
>> Dhaval
>>
>>
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>
> Dhaval,
> This sounds very much like a system I'm working on for a client right now.
> I'm not permitted to disclose much about it due to the NDA i signed, but
> I'll risk giving you a point in the right direction.
>
> First, you should create a table in your database that has a column called
> callid, and other columns that you will have to decide upon. This table will
> be called something like '*call_references*'. Oh, and you'll want to
> define callid as the primary key for records in that table, but DO NOT make
> it an autoincrement, you're going to populate it with a value that is
> described in the next step.
>
> Second, at the beginning of the original call you mentioned, define a
> variable that will be unique to that call. I personally have done this by
> stripping all non-digits from the caller's callerid (using
> Set(newcid=${FILTER(0123456789,${CALLERID(number)})} ), and then adding the
> to ${EPOCH}. I did it this way: ${MATH(${newcid}+${EPOCH})}.
>
> Next (this is where I have to start being a bit vague), you're going to
> perform an INSERT query, creating a new call_references record (using that
> variable I just showed you how to construct as callid's value).
>
> Now, when you defined that variable, you should have preceded the variable
> name with two underscores ( __ ), which will tell Asterisk that channels
> spawned by the current channel will inherit that variable and it's value.
>
> Voila, you now have a method for storing realtime data such as billing
> information between MULTIPLE calls.
>
> I wish I could tell you more, but I can't violate my client's
> Non-Disclosure Agreement.
>
> Hope this helps you out!
>
> Sherwood McGowan
>
>
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