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 0.2.

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 0.2 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.

User manual: PDF (0.8M)

1. General
2. System Management
3. IVR
4. Accounting
5. Calling Cards
6. Reports

General

Q. What is VoIP BS?
A. VoIP BS is a real-time billing system for medium and small sized VoIP carriers.

Q. What platforms does VoIP BS support?
A. VoIP BS can run on open source operating systems: FreeBSD and Linux, and as a database it's used MySQL server.

Q. What's the hardware requirements for VoIP BS?
A. It depends on the expected loading, but generally Pentium-4 with 512Mb RAM is enough.

System Management

Q. What do I need to work with VoIP BS?
A. VoIP BS is fully configurable and accessible over the web, so all what you need is web browser.

Q. Is it possible to constrain web-user's rights?
A. Yes. VoIP BS provides flexible settings for user's rights. You can assign to user sections of Web interface and define restrictions for his actions like View ot Modify. Moreover any user has a list of IP addresses from which his logon is allowed.

IVR

Q. What additional information does IVR provide to customer?
A. At first IVR informs prepaid customers about his current balance. After a calling number is dialed, the system returns the amount of time left in their account for a call to that destination.

Q. Is there protection against simultaneous logins from one prepaid PIN?
A. Yes. Also the protection from searching PIN is implemented.

Q. How we can setup IVR TCL application on the gateway side?
A. You can pass next parameters:
call application voice bs language 1 ru - IVR language
call application voice bs retry-count 5 - PIN retries number
call application voice bs warning-time 30 - play disconnect warning 30 sec prior call termination
call application voice bs pin-minlen 4 - minimum PIN length
call application voice bs pin-len 10 - maximum PIN length
call application voice bs nobalprmpt 1 - do not play balance amount prompt (0 - play)
call application voice bs noanichk 1 - do not use Caller ID authorization (0 - use)
call application voice bs silenceprmpt 2500 - pause in millisec before IVR start working

Accounting

Q. Is it possible to divide a day at several tariff interval? Is there rate plans for weekends?
A. Yes.

Q. I have wrong rated traffic, because new rate plan was assigned too late. Is it possible to recalculate this traffic taking into consideration new rate plan
A. VoIP BS have recalculation module specially for issues like this.

Calling Cards

Q. Does VoIP BS include a calling card services?
A. Yes.

Q. Is there support for cards dealers?
A. Yes. You can assign cards to dealers and then trace their sellings. A dealer can get an individual discount, and this discount will consider at payment time.

Q. Is there way to trace and analyze amount of sold cards?
A. You can generate report with information about cards' activations and separate it by different parameters: dealer, rate plan, batch, price.

Q. What does "batch" mean?
A. Batch is a set of cards. It consists of cards with equal price and same rate plan. Usually batch is generated at one time, though there is an ability to enlarge the batch with new cards. Number of batches have no limit.

Q. Can I export a list of cards from VoIP BS?
A. Yes, you can. Almost all objects, including cards, can be exported into external files.

Reports

Q. Can I export reports to Microsoft Excel files?
A. All reports work in two modes: online and offline. In first case all requested information shows in Web-browser. In the second mode all results are saved in tab-separated files. This standard is easy to use in Microsoft Excel. After completing offline report you will receive this report by e-mail and also you can download it from Web interface anytime.

Q. I need to get reports periodically and generate bills monthly (weekly). Is there a way to do it automatically?
A. You can use report's recurring mode. Order it once, and then it will be formed and sent by e-mail periodically.

Q. Does VoIP BS work with taxes?
A. Yes, it does. Billing report can be forced to display calls cost with taxes.

VoIP BS 0.2 can be shipped in two variations: Base and Full. The main difference between them is that Full version contain IVR support.

Module name	Base	Full
system kernel (database,RADIUS,call processing,scheduler)	+	+
web-interface	+	+
traffic report	+	+
graphical traffic report	+	+
billing report	+	+
alert reports (Target/Destination unknown, Unauthorized)	+	+
alarm module	+	+
object export	+	+
rates and destinations import	+	+
calls recalculator	+	+
authorization	-	+
voice prompts (5 languages)	-	+
IVR part of the web-interface (cards,PIN,ANI,cards dealers and etc.)	-	+
cards activation report	-	+
IVR objects export	-	+
simple cards web-interface	-	+
system installation, initial setup and testing	+	+

1. Billing price

	Base	Full
VoIP BS 0.2, support during one month, billing software updates during one year	4.500 €	7.500 €
additional support with billing software updates during all support time. for one E1/T1 channel per month *	25 €	50 €

* if you have more then 4 E1/T1 channels, the next channel reduce costs at 50%

2. Billing rent

Rent means that VoIP BS software will be installed on the renter's server. Rent includes consultations, web-support, VoIP BS and billing server administration. All updates are also available during rent time.

	Base	Full
One time payment for VoIP BS 0.2 installation and initial setup	400 €	800 €
Price for one E1/T1 channel per month *	50 €	100 €

* if you have more then 4 E1/T1 channels, the next channel reduce costs at 50%
** minimal rent fee - 300 € per month

Please contact with us via E-mail by any questions: bs@bsproject.net.