[Spce-user] sip:provider CE v2.8 released

Wed Apr 3 08:54:46 EDT 2013

Hi,

Thank you very much for the positive feedback.

I'll keep an eye on this.

Kind Regards
Deon

> Andreas Granig <mailto:agranig at sipwise.com>
> April 3, 2013 2:51 PM
> Hi,
>
>
>
> That has been on our agenda for quite a while, but it never got high 
> priority so far. The bits and pieces are actually there in the db 
> schema, it has just never been exposed to the UI, and the job of 
> creating invoices was some proof-of-concept some years ago (the roots 
> of SPCE go back into 2007 already).
>
> However, with the upcoming 3.0 we're going to enforce couple of things 
> during provisioning via the new UI/API like having a contact for a 
> contract for exactly that use-case, so we'd have the delivery 
> information (address, email etc) ready for putting it on invoices and 
> even send them out. So yeah, this will most likely be in 3.1 (~6 
> months from now).
>
> The new panel/provisioning is still in a too early stage for making 
> useful contributions (the design and skeleton is there and we're in 
> the process of putting together the various bits and pieces), but I 
> guess within a month or two it should be possible for people to make 
> useful contributions in that regards as well.
>
> Andreas
>
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> Skyler <mailto:skchopperguy at gmail.com>
> April 2, 2013 12:53 AM
> Hi Deon,
>
>  Congrats on yer move from 'lurker' to 'poster', hehe. Welcome to the 
> list ;)
>
> On 4/1/2013 1:28 PM, Deon Vermeulen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been watching/monitoring SPCE for quite some time now and am 
>> very excited the progress and ground this development has made/cover 
>> over the past 2 years to reach this new release.
>>
>
>  Do you not use spce in a production capacity yet?
>
>> The source billing feature is exactly what I've been looking for, but 
>> the only single feature at the moment keeping me from replacing my 
>> current switching environment with SPCE is that SPCE doesn't give one 
>> the option to manually/automatically generate an invoice for prepaid 
>> Customers and/or Providers.
>>
>> I really feel that the sipwise team should look into this for the 
>> next release as normally prepaid customers and providers are those 
>> that require an invoice for TAX purposes.
>>
>> One could argue that an invoice can be generated of the system, but 
>> the manual "Off-System" process would become and admin nightmare if 
>> you have for argument sake 100 or more invoices to generate at month 
>> end or whatever the general billing cycle is set to.
>>
>
>   Ya, you'll need a 3rd party app or build yer own BUT everything is 
> there for 100% integration. Feel free to ask the list for suggestions, 
> everyone is quite helpful as you've probably noticed. There is a lot 
> of power given via the provisioning (SOAP/XMLRPC) so no reason why you 
> couldn't make this happen in the 3rd party billing.
>
>> I also can't get my head around is DID/Trunk Billing to customers who 
>> have their own in house PABX and SIP Trunk back to SPCE.
>>
>
>  Think of it this way:
>
> SIP TRUNK CUSTOMER = SUBSCRIBER (they pay you)
> PEER = UPSTREAM (you pay them)
>
> Create each sip trunk as a subscriber, put the PABX IP:PORT as a 
> trusted device, then add the DIDs for them as aliases. Calls to 
> aliases will be sent to the IP:PORT entered as the device. Lots of 
> help available, any time.
>
>
> Skyler
>
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> Deon Vermeulen <mailto:vermeulen.deon at gmail.com>
> April 1, 2013 10:28 PM
> Hi,
>
> I've been watching/monitoring SPCE for quite some time now and am very 
> excited the progress and ground this development has made/cover over 
> the past 2 years to reach this new release.
>
> The source billing feature is exactly what I've been looking for, but 
> the only single feature at the moment keeping me from replacing my 
> current switching environment with SPCE is that SPCE doesn't give one 
> the option to manually/automatically generate an invoice for prepaid 
> Customers and/or Providers.
>
> I really feel that the sipwise team should look into this for the next 
> release as normally prepaid customers and providers are those that 
> require an invoice for TAX purposes.
>
> One could argue that an invoice can be generated of the system, but 
> the manual "Off-System" process would become and admin nightmare if 
> you have for argument sake 100 or more invoices to generate at month 
> end or whatever the general billing cycle is set to.
>
> I also can't get my head around is DID/Trunk Billing to customers who 
> have their own in house PABX and SIP Trunk back to SPCE.
>
> Keep up the good work and congratulations with this release.
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Andreas Granig <mailto:agranig at sipwise.com>
> March 29, 2013 5:36 PM
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm excited to announce the new SPCE v2.8. Please check the official 
> announcement at
>
>     http://www.sipwise.com/news/announcements/spce-v2_8-release/
>
> for a list of changes.
>
> This version will be our first LTS version, so we will keep 
> back-porting fixes and security updates to this version for the next 
> three years. If you want something rock-stable for the years to come, 
> you should go with that!
>
> After v2.8 we'll switch to v3.0 (due in ~3 months as always) with a 
> completely reworked web panel, and we'll switch to a REST interface 
> for 3rd party provisioning clients, and no more new features will be 
> exposed via the SOAP and XMLRPC (and we'll phase it out completely by 
> end of this year).
>
> I'd like to thank you all for your valuable feedback and discussions, 
> let's keep it going for the next v3.0 with some awesome changes ahead!
>
> Thank you,
> Andreas
>
> PS: Please let us know if there goes something wrong in your upgrade 
> or installation. It has been tested extensively via automated jobs and 
> also manually a lot of times, but if you find something nonetheless, 
> we'll be happy to fix it.
>
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