[Asterisk-biz] Billing solution

[Jeremy McNamara]

Dario Vidovic (Vox Mundi) wrote:

>Hi Frederik,
>
>I would suggest something like www.portaone.com you have prepaid, postpaid
>and much more.
>
>You probably do not need it on your servers so a hosted solution from my
>company is something for your case. Please take a look at www.vox-mundi.net
>  
>

Too bad neither of the solutions you just offered support Asterisk. 

Fredrik, the solution to your problem is to very simply utilize the 
'account code' functionality in Asterisk.  Assign each user their own 
unique account code, then whatever Asterisk CDR backend you utilize will 
contain records that include those account codes for every call that 
goes through your system.

To make your system pre-paid, all you have to do is authenticate each 
caller prior to letting them place calls., which is almost trivial with 
Asterisk.

There is no need for a hosted solution. Use the power of Asterisk, don't 
side-step it.


Jeremy McNamara