We are pleased to announce the release of A2Billing 1.4.4. There are a number of new features and improvements to existing features:-
1. Export LCR – there is now the option from the Admin, Reseller and Customer screens to export the whole call plan to a text file using the LCR rules, and send them onto your customers. Additionally, minor changes have been made to the file format of the export file to make it easier to manage in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access.
2. 1.4 saw the release of Agent functionality, which has been highly popular, and as such, we have devoted some more time to it in this release. The management of commissions is much improved with options to add commissions to the Agent balance, or to withdraw the balance for payment to a bank account.
3. We have also removed all the branding of Star2Billing and A2Billing from the Customer interface, one reason being that we do get a number of calls and emails from your customers who are having problems!
4. Another reason for the above step is that as A2Billing becomes more popular, and being used as the main VoIP Billing switch in many new and established telecommunication companies, we are seeing a number people who are taking A2Billing and passing it off as their own product, with little, if any, contribution back to the A2Billing project, either in terms of funding, sponsorship or code contribution. So we have created a mechanism whereby those who want to rebrand A2Billing Admin and Agent interfaces as their own, possibly for commercial reasons, can do so without contravening the AGPL. For more information see
http://www.star2billing.com/licensingIn other news, Star2Billing, and A2Billing have been chosen to assist with the Village Telco project, which has been sponsored by the Shuttleworth Foundation, the same people who sponsor Ubuntu. Read more about this at
http://www.villagetelco.org/ and how A2Billing is helping this exciting project.
As a result of the Village Telco project, we have two new customer API’s to create a trunk config and to retrieve rates from an A2Billing platform. More about this to follow in the documentation.
On the 27th of January, 2010, A2Billing will be celebrating its 5th Anniversary since Areski first announced that he was a bit tired, and had created what was to become A2Billing – see the original post here. (
http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/a ... 41681.html) Like all the best posts, it degenerated into a discussion about which database technology should have been used.
However, we would like to celebrate 5 years of A2Billing, so we are coming up with some events for the week of the 27th of January, including speaking at the Atlanta Asterisk users group. If anyone else has any suggestions for any events, then we would be pleased to hear them.
Finally, we would like to thank you for all your support over the past 12 months, and we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year.
Yours,
The A2Billing Team