About

BS project is an outsourcing project. The goal of the project is development billing system for VoIP carriers. The current product is VoIP Billing System version 0.3.

VoIP BS is designed for medium and small sized VoIP carriers. It can handle about 10 mln. minutes per day in the real-time mode and has been successfully tested for compatibility with the Cisco equipment (Cisco 26xx, 36xx, 53xx, 54xx, 38xx with digital or analog voice modules), Quintum equipment and with MERA VoIP Transit Softswitch.

1. VoIP accounting.

  • handle up to 1 mln. customers with unlimited amount of services
  • prepaid and postpaid accounting models
  • unlimited number of rate plans, which support rating increments, ranges of hours, weekends, holidays, percentage discount/extra charge, per minute and perl call accounting. One plan can inherit rates from another
  • accounting based on prefixes
  • payments history, history of rate plans and rates
  • calls recalculation

2. IVR services.

  • calling cards system with multilanguage Interactive Voice Response (IVR). Currently it supports 5 languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English, Vietnamese, Chinese
  • ability to set date before which a prepaid card should be activated and expiration date before a card should be used
  • support rechargeable cards
  • support card's dealers with ability to trace amount of sold cards and their debts
  • different authorization models. Personal Identification Numbers (PIN), Automatic Number Identification (ANI), callback service

3. User interface.

  • set of reports: billing report, traffic report, graphical traffic report, cards activation report and two alert calls reports
  • most of reports can provide statistics in plain view and be grouped by different parameters
  • any report can handle in online, offline (send to user by e-mail) and recurring modes
  • export most of the data and settings to external programs using text files
  • ability to create customizable invoices by using templates

4. System management.

  • system events logging
  • user's actions logging
  • Web-based user interface
  • ASP-ready. Run several independent billing systems on the same server

VoIP BS 0.3 can run under Unix operating systems: Linux, FreeBSD. The database running under MySQL. The client side requires any modern web-browser like Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox/Mozilla, Opera or Konqueror. The minimum hardware requirements for the server is CPU Intel Pentium III-700 / RAM 256 Mb / HDD 20 Gb IDE.