[Spce-user] Feature Request: Setting "free minutes packages" without billing profiles and possibility to cascade billing profiles

[Raúl Alexis Betancor Santana]

It's a good feature to have ... but as all rating/billing systems outthere, will suffer from the 'prefix matching' problem. 

What to do if you have: 

Base rate: +44.* 0,01 
Customer special rate: +4422.* 0,05 
Free rates: +44.* 0,0 

And customer calls +44223.... 

I know it's not a good example ... but a typical one ... to inner-most profile doesn't include the top-most profile. I have seen that problem before, and it's not easy to solve. 

> De: "Barry Flanagan" <barry at flanagan.ie>
> Para: "Matthias Hohl" <matthias.hohl at telematica.at>
> CC: "Spce-user at lists.sipwise.com" <spce-user at lists.sipwise.com>
> Enviados: Lunes, 2 de Marzo 2015 11:17:14
> Asunto: Re: [Spce-user] Feature Request: Setting "free minutes packages" without
> billing profiles and possibility to cascade billing profiles

> On 2 March 2015 at 08:15, Matthias Hohl < matthias.hohl at telematica.at > wrote:

>> Hello,

>> is there a possibility to exclude free minutes from the billing profiles to set
>> them seperatly on an other layer..?
>> Currently I have 5 different billing profiles and this just because i need 5
>> different "free minutes" packages.

> <snip>

>> Another feature request:
>> Is is also possible to cascade billing fee profiles..?

> I would also love to see cascading billing profiles. Would make life so much
> more simple and less error prone.

> Would cascading profiles not also solve your first issue regarding free
> time/cash? You would simply add your free destinations in a separate profile
> and these would over-ride the rates in the main profile.

> Or maybe I think of cascading differently: I would want to be able to have, for
> example, a full a-z profile with my standard base rates, and then the ability
> to specify one or more additional profiles and any rates in these would take
> precedence over the base rates of any other rate set in a previous profile.

> 1. Base Profile - my stadard rates
> 2. Customer special Rates - for example a customer has a special rate for UK
> calls
> 3. Free Rates - defining which rates get to use free time/cash

> So in the above scenario, I could have a base UK rate, and for this particular
> customer I have assigned a special rate. However I have also included UK in the
> Free Rates. Therefore this customer will first of all use their Free time for
> UK calls and then will pay the Special Rates for any subsequent UK calls.

> This would require being able to specify the priority of a rate profile, so that
> you can determine which rate gets picked.

> It would allow just one Base profile and then deal with exceptions in additional
> profiles. It would immediately be obvious how a particular customer is being
> rated and make rates an order of magnitude easier to maintain.

> -Barry Flanagan

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