There has been a feature long missing in A2Billing, and that is the ability of A2Billing to bill the A Leg, or ingress leg of a DID.
Thanks to Sponsorship from IPComms, -http://www.ipcomms.net/ - who some of you may remember has sponsored development of A2Billing in the past, we have been able to add this feature.
This allows you to set a price per minute for the DID as well as a connection charge, and add this to the ingress cost to the egress cost, so when someone calls one of your customer’s DID, the customer is charged per minute for the call.
For instance, if a customer has a freephone or tollfree number that is charged at 5c per minute, the customer who owns the DID will have his balance decremented at 5c per minute, assuming the call is delivered via VoIP where there is no charge. When the call is delivered to a landline, at say 2c per minute, the customer will have his balance decremented by 7c per minute.
We have also given the ability to allow revenue share for NGN’s (Non Geographic Numbers). For instance, if A2Billing Admin earns 10c per minute for a call to an NGN, he may wish to pass some of that revenue share on to his customer at 8c per minute. In this case, the customer’s balance will be increased by 8c per minute. However, if the call is delivered to a landline at 2c per minute, the cost of egress will be balanced against the ingress, resulting in a net increase of the customer’s balance by 2 cents.
We are excited to see how this new feature will be used to provide new services and charging options to A2Billing Admins.
Note that we have moved the development of A2Billing from Subversion to GIT, and you can follow development of A2Billing at
https://github.com/star2billing/a2billing, and download the latest version from
https://github.com/Star2Billing/a2billi ... v1-currentYours
Areski, Joe, and the Star2Billing team.