[Spce-user] Billing Plan fallback on missing fee

[Barry Flanagan]

On 2 February 2017 at 15:34, Oleg <spce at irg-x.net> wrote:

> Interesting, I would have bet you'd be modifing kamailio-proxy.cfg to add
> routes with cgrates acc code.
>

No - I think that might be a step too far for the good people at Sipwise
Support :-)

-Barry


> Thanks
>
> Oleg
>
>
> On 2017-02-02 16:24, Barry Flanagan wrote:
>
>> On 2 February 2017 at 14:53, Oleg <spce at irg-x.net> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for Your comment. Indeed, I too have to update 10 or 30
>>> Billing Plans every time my upstream providers change rates. It's
>>> somewhat cumbersome to maintain and repeat same fees across all the
>>> billing plans all the time.
>>>
>>> Your idea with CGRates sounds interesting. Any pointers for
>>> integration between sipwise and cgrates?
>>>
>>
>> We would just intend to replace rate-o-mat with a daemon to feed in
>> the CDR to cgrates then mark them as rated in SP. Our invoicing system
>> then takes in its rated CDR from cgrates instead of SP.
>>
>> We have already decoupled our front-end rate management system from
>> SP. Instead of writing the rates directly to SP it gets written to a
>> separate system, which can then populate the rates in either/both SP
>> and cgrates.
>>
>> So far we have successfully exported the same rate card to both
>> systems and have sent sample SP CDR to cgrates and confirmed they were
>> correctly rated. Still a lot of work to do though.
>>
>> -Barry
>>
>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Oleg.
>>>
>>> On 2017-02-02 14:48, Barry Flanagan wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2 February 2017 at 13:01, Oleg <spce at irg-x.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Just wandering if there is a way to tell SPCE to fallback to an
>>> alternative billing_plan if rate-o-mat does not find a Fee in the
>>> current plan (on Customer's billing plan missing Fee, apply
>>> Reseller' billing plan fee for the given destination, if present).
>>>
>>> No, not possible at the moment. Pity. It would be great if you
>>> could
>>> assign a "fallthrough" rate card to a customer. So, you could have
>>> your standard rate card as base, and then for customer A you can
>>> have
>>> a rate card with just a few (say UK) rates. A call from this
>>> customer
>>> would first check their rate card and if not found, check the
>>> fallthrough one.
>>>
>>> This would mean that instead of having to maintain full separate
>>> rate
>>> cards for every customer where there is a slight difference, you
>>> just
>>> maintain the standard rates and then the smaller individual rate
>>> cards
>>> per customer.
>>>
>>> This and the lack of multiple Free Time "buckets" are my biggest
>>> gripes with SP (I am on Pro).
>>>
>>> We are actually investigating cgrates as an alternative rating
>>> engine
>>> (we don't use the invoicing built in to SP)
>>>
>>> -Barry Flanagan
>>>
>>> Example.
>>>
>>> - 'DefaultResellerBillingPlan' contains all the destinations
>>> - 'ClientsOfferPlan' contains one destination Fee only (ex.: 5%
>>> discount calculated for fees to US
>>> '^1,on_peak_init_rate,on_peak_init_interval,...')
>>>
>>> A user with 'ClientsOfferPlan' assigned is billed through
>>> DefaultResekkerBillingPlan for all the destination (therein
>>> present), except for one Fee ('^1'), which is billed through
>>> 'ClientsOfferPlan'.
>>>
>>> In other words, I'd like sipwise to rate (and include in Invoice)
>>> 'accounting.cdr.source_reseller_cost' (if > 0) when
>>> accounting.cdr.source_customer_cost=0.
>>>
>>> Is this possible?
>>>
>>> Thank You
>>>
>>> Oleg
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