[Asterisk-Users] Billing: amaflags and accountcode

[Darren Wiebe]

The way I do it is to make a list of internal extensions and set those 
to no charge.  They get billed at no charge that way and it works fine. 
/Plug Starts/ This is done using ASTPP www.aleph-com.net/astpp/  /Plug Ends/

Darren Wiebe
darren at aleph-com.net

Chris Bagnall wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I have about 10 SIP phones for different users defined in sip.conf, each
>with their own accountcode= entry. There is a global setting in sip.conf
>that states amaflags=documentation
>
>There are 3 IAX->PSTN gateways defined in iax.conf for outbound calls. These
>do not have an accountcode=, but do have amaflags=billing defined in each.
>
>The theory was that all calls should be logged, those calls either incoming
>or between SIP users should have amaflags=documentation (which they do, all
>well and good), but when a user makes an outgoing call via an IAX gateway,
>it gets amaflags=billing (so I know it's a chargeable call). However, this
>doesn't seem to work - all call logs, even those to the IAX gateways all
>have amaflags=documentation.
>
>Is there another way around this? How are you good people using amaflags and
>accountcode to apportion billing to different users, whilst not "billing"
>them for incoming calls or calls between SIP users?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris
>  
>