areski wrote:
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I cannot be more agree with you, actually this is *exactly* what I would love to do after finishing 1.4 plus few other stuff to build a weight (preference) on outgoing trunk,,, but those changes will never be backward compatible with 1.3x. or 1.4x.
So I think we might go for a totally different design after this release and build a bridge between them.
Areski,
In my search for a good billing system for Asterisk I have had experience with a few billing systems such as Portabilling, DTL and Voipswitch over the past 6 years. I have also tried several others and they were all lacking in one way or other so we all know there is no such thing as a perfect billing solution. So I now ended backup with Asterisk & A2Billing due to the flexibility I have with codec support, protocols etc.
However, it would be good to take the best features from them all and implement into A2Billing.
Being able to separate the sell rates from the buy rates is definately a big thing for me. I had a long telephone conversation to Joe trying to find out if there was an easier way to adding the rates to the system without having to manually enter the sell rates for each prefix of the pricelist for each carrier you want to use but there isn't .
Some of the spreadsheets I receive from my carriers differ so much that one can have over 5000 rows and another can have 22,000 rows! So you can imagne the task of trying to match up your sell rates with each carrier. For me and I am not a developer but I think it is so much easier to just upload the buy rates from each provider into a section for providers rates then I just create a single sell rate sheet for each of my callplans - done! In the call plan I just attach those provider to the LCR routing and I can see the cost of the call as normal.
A2Billing is a great project with lots of potential and I really want see the project get bigger and better. I am going to take the initiative and put my money where my mouth is and make a contribution towards the development. Maybe it would encourage the others to follow suite since you we all developing A2Billing to make it better for us and you also need to earn a living!
Gooosh....sorry about the long post didn't realise that I waffled on that much.
regards,
Sammy