[Asterisk-Users] Billing inbound calls per minute

[JP Carballo]

bbench at mail.bg wrote:

>On Monday 06 February 2006 09:25, JP Carballo wrote:
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>>ASTCC works fine here. The duration and billseconds fields in my cdrs as
>>well as ASTCC's cdr are filled.
>>I don't use the connect fee field though and all are set to 0.
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>Would you share with me how'd you do billing on a DID
>(if you do), and through what Technology?
>Anything that goes Local here is ANSWEREDTIME zero.
>Thanks,
>benchev
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That probably explains it.
IIRC, from when I was still testing ASTCC, when calling a Local channel, 
the AGI suffers from short term memory loss and forgets the values of 
channel variables even if "/n" is used in the dial string.
I checked my test server logs and while I can verify that ASTCC's CDR 
does have blank duration and billsec fields for the Local calls, *'s CDR 
records them.
If it's also true for you, you might want to use *'s CDRs for rating.

I do billing based on account number so clients are free to call from 
any phone. I don't check callerid.
Since each account is based on the phone number registered by the 
client, I can just chop off the 2 digit prefix and set their callerid 
with the result.

[makecall]
exten => s,1,Set(CALLERID(num)=${CARDNO:2})
exten => s,n,DeadAGI(astcc.agi,${CARDNO})
exten => s,n,Goto(nf2xsubmenu,s,1)

All my calls are routed to IAX2 or SIP or Zap.

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