DID Forwarding Howto?

pbxpal · **Posted:** Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:09 pm

After reading the forums today, I'm interested to know if a2billing will help me accomplish my task or make it more difficult.

I'm interested in being able to create customers, who specify a landline (or cell phone number). Then, we sell the customer 2 DIDs, both of which need to forward to the customer's landline. The forwarded call would go out on a trunk and be billed for as a whole call (not by minutes), but only begin billing after a few seconds.

Is this possible to do with a2billing? If so, any suggestions for this implementation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

jroper · **Joined:** Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:56 pm **Posts:** 4065

Hi

Yes this fairly easy.

Bring in the DID into A2Billing, and send it out via a trunk.

You can bill the call via the rate tables which are very flexible.

Have a go at it, and see how you get on. Let us know any specific problems, rather than me writing a complete howto.

Joe

pbxpal · **Posted:** Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:24 pm

Oh, I have been messing with it for a few hours.. I guess my first question is now that I have some DIDs pointed at that box, and I can see them coming in with ngrep, how do I get them to ring to a2billing? I saw something about manually editing extensions.conf but I cannot find anything about this in the wiki.

Another side question: how many DIDs can a2billing handle? I noticed the add destination dialog has a drop down list with all DIDs. What if that list has 1,000 DIDs? 10,000? 100,000? The add destination page wouldn't work very well...?

jroper · **Joined:** Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:56 pm **Posts:** 4065

Having got the DID on the Asterisk box, you need to feed it into A2Billing with a context something like : -

[a2billing-did]
exten => _X.,1,deadAGI(a2billing.php|1|did)
exten => _X.,2,Hangup

Which passes the call into A2Billing, telling it that it is a DID.

Then you need a DID to match in A2Billing

Then add a destination.

Joe

pbxpal · **Posted:** Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:47 pm

stavros · **Posted:** Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:23 pm

It looks like there's a problem when assigning DIDs from the admin UI. Try buying a DID from the customer UI. It seemed to help Da.

stavros · **Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:47 am

OK, I've checked and the only problem that I can find using DIDs from the Admin UI is that there's no way to initially assign a DID to a card. This must be done whilst logged in as the customer.
Once a DID has been purchased from the Customer UI there's no problem adding/modifying the destinations.

pbxpal · **Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:42 pm

I have one account created in the admin ui, when I try to log in using the card number and password on that account through the customer ui I get a message: BLOCKED ACCOUNT, Please contact your administrator!

Do I need to enable web access for the card? Ideas?

stavros · **Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:24 pm

Ensure the card is activated?

pbxpal · **Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:30 pm

activated is set to yes

Added after 9 minutes:

apparently i should have been using the card alias as the username to log in, not the card number itself...

Added after 7 minutes:

I have some DIDs added in the admin ui, but when I try to "buy" one from the customer ui none are listed (I selected country United States and in admin ui they are assigned to United States).

Added after 25 minutes:

Not sure how I did it had to log in and out a few times, but I have the DID forwarding set up. Is a trunk required for the call to go through or should I be able to see in the asterisk CLI that it's about to make a call but can't because there is no trunk?

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