[Asterisk-Users] Hotel billing in IPSwitchBoard

[Guido Hecken]

This seems to be exactly the application I was looking for :-).
Since I'm working on a project where accounting and billing (http and voip
traffic) is an issue, I'm glad to read that there will be a solution within
a reasonable GUI.
While dealing with squid and the great Squid2MYSQL script - used for
Accounting and Billing - from Eugene V. Chernyshev [evc at fromru.com], I
wasn't shure about the udp traffic.
A time based Billing seems to be a good solution.

Keep on going with your great work on IPSwitchboard.

Guido Hecken

> I am currently working on implementing Hotel Billing in IPSwitchBoard.
> 
> The idea is that a receptionist in a hotel can just right click an
extension
> button and choose "Account"; IPS will now calculate the call charges made
> from that extension and show all calls and charges on a form.
> 
> The receptionist now has the option to close the account which will reset
> the account.
> 
> I will add a table for editing call charges, and there will be a
possibility
> to add a fee for connection charges and also an option to charge calls per
> xx seconds and to add/subtract a percentage to all calls.
> 
> I will add a family/key to the asterisk database to indicate if the
> extension is closed, this way you can stop outgoing calls from being made
> from a closed extension by checking the dial plan.
> 
> 
> Please let me know if there are any other features you would like to see
in
> IPSwitchBoard.