[Spce-user] Billing Plan fallback on missing fee

[Oleg]

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

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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