Usage Scenario

Asterisell is a web application for rating, displaying, and billing VoIP calls:

You are a VoIP services vendor
Your customers can call users on telephone networks not managed or owned by you
For calls to external networks, you use the services of other telephone vendors and pay them for the service

Every call has:

For managing VoIP calls, you can use:

An Asterisk Server
A VoIP server that writes directly to a database or exports call details to a CSV file

You can use Asterisell for:

Features

Supports outgoing, incoming and internal calls
Associate telephone prefixes to a proper telephone operator, geographic location or connection type
Simplified interface for customers with only one office, or offices with only one VoIP account
Export calls to CSV or Excel
Group calls by office or VoIP account
Filter calls by number called, date range, geographic location, and more
Mask called numbers partially for greater privacy
Hide default prefixes
Configure language and locale
Customers can have one or more offices
Offices can have one or more VoIP accounts

Administrators can view customer call details including:

Group customers into price list categories
Associate rates with specific telephone prefixes, time periods, destination gateway channels and more
Extend source code with additional rating methods
Specify rates using CSV files (usually according to telephone prefix)
Supports number portability
Generate incoming call discounts for customers or VoIP service providers (optional)
Apply rates to an invoicing period, like minimum cost or bundle cap limit

Problems during rate processing are reported online and administrators are notified by email
Informative problem descriptions including overview, effects and probable solutions

Associate telephone prefixes with a proper telephone operator, geographic location and connection type
These details are used for call visualization and filtering

Produce invoices in PDF format
Email invoices
Customize level of detail in invoices
Customize invoice and email format, changing PHP code
Generate summary call report containing information such as most expensive calls, numbers dialed, geographic location and more
Batch produce invoices and emails

Customers can have web-access accounts
Customers can associate one or more VoIP accounts with their employees, offices or departments
Customers can be associated with different partners and resellers

Asterisell supports multiple resellers and partners
A reseller is a company selling VoIP calls to customers; you play the role of VoIP vendor
Resellers have unique Asterisell web addresses, databases, customers, rates and invoices
Partners collaborate with you, using your Asterisell instance and the VoIP server
Partners share administrator privileges on the same Asterisell instance
Partners may have different customers, rates, login pages and invoice formats

Asterisell supports customized workflow, thanks to an internal design based on cooperating jobs:

Jobs are activated when there are proper events on the blackboard
Custom jobs change application workflow and behavior in a powerful, and predictable way

Asterisell also accepts customized:

Importing Call Detail Records (CDRs) from a CSV file
North American Numbering Plan, for example, with advanced local, interstate, intrastate, or international call detection and other telephone number normalization
New rating methods