AstBill supporting PINs and Calling Cards

By Dulce at Sat, 2005-10-08 07:18 | AstBill Software - General and Support

On 10/7/05, Sadiq wrote:

Hi Dulce,

I need to see a live AstBill supporting PINs ( if it is possible) because I could not see it in the current AstBill demo ( (I think when you see you get more info and be sure from what I want).
Please give me more details. if it will support IAX softphone to use these PINs to make calls.
how could the softphone get the balance or calls history or could it be via an http or https URL post with PIN to see them. Or is there any xml interface for that or some APIs?

I have a fresh Fedora 4 server ( 2.8 GH ,1GB Ram, 100Mb connection) you could install all stuff together in that box ( Asterisk1.2 + Astbill + Mysql 5 + Drupal).

Does it support callshop or it has a module for it or will be in the near future.

Best Regards,

Sadiq

On 10/7/05, Dulce at astartelecom.com wrote:

Dear Sadiq

Thanks for your email. There is options for prepaid cards (PINs) in AstBill. AstBill is an excelent system for cards.
We normally charge to install AstBill but right now we have a special offer.

You can run your own calling card business for only a minimal investment. That is a fantastic deal.
It is in use in a few callshop's. The problem is that I have been told it still need some customising. We are planning to update the standard package with the callshop module soon.
If you don't want to do it your self, one of our Engineers can do it for you including compleete installation and configuration. It is better for them to do it as they have worked with the system over long time. The Calling card interface will use PINs to make calls. You can use any IAX or SIP softphone or hardware device to make calls. You get the balance the same way other calling cards applications get it. By dialing the number for balance. If there is no balance on your card the system will tell you "Sorry, no Credit" when you try to call.
You can also assign incomming local and free numbers and use them as normal calling card applications. You will also get your balance on the web interface. There is no xml interface or special APIs but all the balances are stored in the MySQL database. Experienced programmers can easely extract that info for any usage.
Your Fedora 4 server is exelent for this usage.

Dulce --
http://astartelecom.com - Independent Telecoms Broker. Asterisk and Drupal Consultants
http://astbill.com - Billing, Routing and Management software for Asterisk and MySQL.

AstBill supporting PINs and Calling Cards

By steven.jhons88 on Tue, 2009-08-25 10:35

Communication is increasing day by day to give more facilities to the customers and to make people more confident in using telecommunications. Newer and newer protocols are defined to make standards more strong. PIN and calling cards are facilitating the users while they are in or passing their vacation and need to call someone or when in their journey they need to get money from ATMs this things are helpful.

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Astbill System

By Magik on Fri, 2005-10-21 17:50

I work for an ITSP and I am looking at rolling out a VoIP
network solution similar to Vonage in South Africa , I'm looking
at an initial capacity of about 2500 users .
Are you able to do a cutom system for me , if so how
scalable is it . i Have been using Astbill and i'm happy with it ?

--MagiK--

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AstBill in South Africa

By london3 on Fri, 2005-10-21 20:20

Dear MagiK

2500 users is no problem for a properly configured AstBill and Asterisk.

We are very happy to do a custom system for you. I will contact you off list about this.

ARE --
http://astartelecom.com - Independent VOIP Telecoms Broker. Consulting in Asterisk and Drupal

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AstBill supporting PINs and Calling Cards

By johnaa on Mon, 2005-10-10 06:50

Dear Sir

Is prepaid cards and callshop module two different thing.
Does prepaid cards support ANI Authentication ?

John

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ANI Authentication

By london3 on Mon, 2005-10-10 15:18

ANI/CLI authentication. Automatic Number Identification/Calling Line
Identification (ANI/CLI) authentication is the authentication of a connection attempt based on the phone number of the caller.

AstBill is not supporting ANI out of the box as open source. We are planning to support it later and we have the code to make it happend.

You have two options. You can add it your self or you can pay a minimal fee for it to be added to your installation.

As you know prepaid cards and callshop module is a bit different and are normally used by different customers. In reallity one user may need the two modules. The callshop module is to be released when ready. It is now under testing. We are not sure yet if we want to release the prepaid cards module under GPL. I do think we will release it. Just contact us if you need it fast. We try to work out somthing.

ARE --
http://astartelecom.com - Independent VOIP Telecoms Broker. Consulting in Asterisk and Drupal

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ANI/CLI is now supported

By london3 on Wed, 2005-10-26 22:31

AstBill-0.9.0.7 is now supporting ANI/CLI authentication.

ARE --
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Fee

By skydiver on Mon, 2005-10-10 19:27

Please contact off forum as i would like to pay a fee to have my Astbill setup for my server. admin at da-bratz.com

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install

By toycruiser on Wed, 2005-10-26 22:34

Please contact me as well i would like to pay a fee to have my astbill setup as well

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