[Asterisk-Users] Rodopi Billing

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Tom wrote:

> At 07:08 PM 8/3/2004, you wrote:
> >That sigh will turn to cursing after a couple of months. We currently use
> >Rodopi, have for 10 years but the inflexability is too much to deal with
> >anymore so we are moving away from it.
> 
> To what?  I am also a cursed Rodopi owner. :-(
> 
> Tom

We use Platypus from Boardtown, which was just acquired by Tucows. 
Although it has it's quirks, having seen Rodopi, Emerald, Prism and 
ISPEasy in action, I'll take Platypus ANY day!

I have a method for hacking VoIP per minute billing into Platypus, but I 
haven't executed it yet. Basically, we dump all of our CDR records to a 
database. On a daily basis, we can tally up the the per-minute LD totals 
for each customer and then insert a Radius Start/Stop record w/ the total 
billing seconds for that day. Platypus's built in rate tables take care of 
the rest. We provide 1,000 minutes of long distance with each account, so 
at the end of the month when Platypus tallies up it's overage charges, if 
the usage exceeds the limit, it bills the customer accordingly.

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