[asterisk-users] Prepaid billing

[virendra bhati]

Batter is used DB to store intime of call then when ever currect used time
is required then deduct from  intime - current time.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Zohair Raza
<engineerzuhairraza at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I understand this, but I think there isn't any option that helps us to
> reduce cost while call is in progress.
>
> One option that I was thinking is to check elapsed time by "core show
> channel channel-id" and deduct the amount but we need to check it every
> second or x seconds via AMI.
>
> Regards,
> Zohair Raza
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:35 AM, virendra bhati <virbhati at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Zohair,
>>
>> By using only asterisk it's not possible. So used progremming languages
>> and do realtime billing at your ends.
>>
>> like 1st caller will take complete amount ($5) and if 2nd call will come
>> then deduct used amount and share remaining amount to others like that.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Zohair Raza <
>> engineerzuhairraza at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am writing a billing engine in AGI. My scenario is :
>>>
>>> One customer can have simultaneous calls and I need to hang up one
>>> customer's all call when balance reaches 0
>>>
>>> If I set limit for each call using 'L' in dial command, lets say 5
>>> minutes in accordance with remaining credit and connect the call, few
>>> seconds later a 2nd call comes in and the first call is still in progress.
>>> If I permit the same 5 minutes as per this formula and both calls remains
>>> connected for the next 5 minutes then credit will go in minus which is not
>>> acceptable.
>>>
>>> One option is to charge credit via AMI and as soon as the credit goes 0,
>>> hangup all calls for this customer.
>>>
>>> Is there any other way to achieve this ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Zohair Raza
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
>>  Virendra Bhati
>> +91-8885268942
>> Software Engineer
>>
>>
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 Virendra Bhati
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Software Engineer
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