Live Answering Billling

Live Answering Billling

Charging Setup

The calls/messages are rated using a CDR Tarrif.  

The fields required to be entered on that are:

Field

Description

Example 1

Example 2

Field

Description

Example 1

Example 2

Free Minutes

The Number of calls per group

If you don't put a value in here, calls are billed individually

5

0

Rate Per Minute

This is Price to use per group

6.00

1.5

Flag Fall

The Number of calls included in the base monthly charge

( ignore x amount of calls )  ( If there are no free minutes, this isn't used )

1

0

Billing Result for 66 Calls

Example 1:

66 - 1 = 65 ( total calls - flag fall )
65 / 5 = 13 ( billable calls / free minutes )
13 x 6.00 = 78.00 ( call groups x rate per minute )

Example 2:

66 x 1.50 = 99.00 ( calls x rate per minute )

 

Important Information

CDR Application = 'Live Answering'

Installation

create a script to add the charges in the data/DEPTID folder.

Add it to the cron setup for that installation.