A2Billing is a mighty calling card platform, which can be easily set up with Asterisk to commence a wide set of tools to manage a composite and sophisticated calling card system. Using A2Billing with Asterisk for prepaid/postpaid calling card services are extremely easy like making few entries through a web interface. It has a user-friendly Interface & powerful/advanced functionalities, which can be dispensed into three categories:
IVR, Web management interface & Customer interface
IVR FEATURES:
Caller ID & Card Number authentication
Multi language support - force specific language, give a menu for language choices
Customize the IVR rapidly, chose to play Balance, Time to call, Intro prompt etc.
Recording of the call
Speed-dial
Play balance with multi currency support
Free VoIP calls between application users
Support simultaneous or single access on same card
Support call at Zero-Cost & Negative cost
Auto creation card option for new callerID
DID & CID based Call Back
COMMON CALLFLOW:
Caller gets informed about his credit
Announce the remaining credit
Caller is requested to enter a destination number
Announce the maximal call time for the given destination number
Calculates the remaining duration of the call (based on tariff rate tables), informs the caller about this and sets a timeout
Interrupt the call if the card balance reaches zero - Warn the caller about the call interrupt X seconds before the call gets interrupted
It connects the Caller to the destination through the configured trunks
After disconnecting the call, the AGI updates the credit and stores the concerning Cal
WEB MANAGEMENT INTERFACE:
Advanced Cards/Customer management: Creation; Edit; Search engine; batch update; CallerID handling; Refill Cards; batch creation
Define: post-pay/prepay; Language; Currency; Expiration; VAT; Recurring Service, User Data, etc...
SIP / IAX Friends + ARA support (Asterisk Realtime)
Speed dial
BILLING MANAGEMENT & REPORTING
Check the Customers balance: see Refills made, payment received, amount to pay
Browse the PayPal transactions
Vouchers support: creation; browsing; batch creation
Multi-Currencies support: automatic update based currently base on Yahoo Financial
DID monthly billing
POWERFUL RATE-ENGINE
LCR & LCD management
Billing Increment
Progressive Rate
Scheduled Rates (days/hours of the weeks - PEAK & OFF-PEAK)
Expiry of rates
Import rate card from csv file
Rate-card Simulator
Trunk/voip-provider management
failover trunks
Batch update for rates
DID Selling
Manage your DIDs and sell them to your customer for monthly usage.
Customer can reserve DIDs for themselves and configure a Follow-me to redirect the calls (over PSTN or VOIP calls)
REPORTING
Monthly & daily reporting
Earnings calculation and markup/margin on report
Monthly traffic reports (pie graph)
Daily load
Compare call-load with previous days
Criteria definition for reporting
Export report to PDF & CSV
Generate invoices to PDF format
RECURRING SERVICE OVER THE CARD
Auto refill existing card with auto refill option
Periodically remove credit from customer balance
PREDICTIVE DIALER
Manage campaign
Manage phone number list and import tool for phone list
OTHERS
E-Product : allows interaction with third party in order to create cards : useful to connect the system to other platform such OS-commerce
Signup modules
Mail activation
Configure mail templates
ACL support for admin users
DB backup/restore tool
SOAP-Webservice : Create Card, Remove card, Update... See WSDL : A2Billing_UI/api/SOAP/soap-card-server.php?wsdl
Export datas into XML or CSV
CUSTOMER INTERFACE:
Account info
Call history - CDR
Voucher usage
Invoice Viewing
DID selling support - features to sell to pre-configured DID. Customers can redirect DID to his phone-number and even deploy a Follow-Me
Speed dial configuration
Ratecard browsing & ratecard simulator
Web based callback
Light predictive-dialer: Customer Interface (Agent) has the ability to call a predefined amount of Phone numbers.
Web-phone (Applet Java - IAX WebPhone)
Caller id: list / add
Multi-Language support for the customer interface (Spanish, English, French, Chinese, Italian, Romanian, Turkish, Urdu)
Forget password option
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