[Asterisk-Users] Call Rate in CDR

[Eric Wieling]

I personally think the "right" place to deal with billing is in your
billing application.  Your billing application should know about special
rates for different customers, time of day rates, destination rates,
etc.  There is already enough information in the CDR to know which
provider you are going thru.  i.e. fields 6 and 8 in the CDR logs.

These are Call Detail Record logs, not Call Billing Logs. 8-)

If your billing application can't handle this, it should be pretty easy
to build a small preprocessing application for the log files.

Why invent something new when you can reuse existing tools to do all or
most of the job?

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:08, John Brown (CV) wrote:
> So what do people think about adding the "call rate" to the CDR
> structure??
> 
> This would allow you to detail a call with the rate that was
> in affect for that call.  When you come back later and do 
> the billing for the customer you would have the actual per min
> rate in the record.
> 
> I think this solves an issue when you have changing rates and
> multiple providers.  If one provider is down, and you use 
> a back up you can track the "rate" better.
> 
> In fact as I type this, I think we should have  
> 
> cost_rate   the rate you where charged for this call
> cust_rate   the rate you charge your customer for this call
> 
> 
> 
> or is their a better way to do this.
> 
> 
> john brown, ceo
> chagres technologies, inc (US)
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