Asterisell Overview¶

Open Source Web Application for Rating and Showing VoIP Calls

Rate Calls¶

Specify rating plans using a powerful domain specific language.

Group customers or extensions into distinct price list categories.

Change rates, and price lists assignments over time.

Support for bundle rates.

Support for number portability.

# Example of a rate plan
rate {
  id: outgoing
  match-call-direction: outgoing

  rate {
    id: wholesale
    match-price-category: wholesale
    # this part of rate plan is applicable
    # only to customers in "wholesale" category.

    external-rate {
      # this is an external CSV file,
      # where each line has a telephone prefix
      # and a related cost.
      id: wholesale
      use: sell-wholesale
      set-cost-for-minute: this
    }
  }
}

Billing¶

Schedule the generation of invoices and reports.

Send invoices by email.

Online Call Reporting¶

Customers can view their calls online, using a simplified user interface.

Customers can export theirs calls to CSV files.

Telephone Services¶

Sell telephone services to customers.

Change price list and service assignments over time.

Inspect Rating Problems¶

Detailed errors reporting, with severity, problem description, effect and proposed solution.

Stats about unrated calls.

Enable Resellers¶

Resellers sell VoIP calls to their customers, but using your VoIP infrastructure behind the scene.

Install on Private Servers¶

Install Asterisell on your private servers.

You can customize nearly any aspect of the application, because you will receive application source code, except the internal of the rating engine.

CDRs processing is based on customizable jobs.

always_scheduled_jobs:
  - ImportDataFiles
  - SignalRatesToExportToResellers
  - ManageRateEvent
  - GarbageCollectBundleState
  - CheckCallCostLimit
  - CompareProviderCostWithCalculatedCost
  - GenerateScheduledReports
  - ReportsNotificationWorkflow
  - AdviseAdminOfNewProblems
  - BackupConfigurations
  - BackupSourceCDRS
  - BackupCDRS
  - BackupReports

configure_jobs:
  - ConfigureDefaultParamsAndSettings
  - ConfigureHolidays
  - ConfigureDefaultResponsibleForEachErrorDomainType
  - InitWithDefaultMySQLStoredProcedures
  - InitTelephonePrefixes
  - LoadWorldTelephonePrefixesFromCSVFile
  - ConfigureCommunicationChannels
  - InitDefaultReportsForVoIPReseller
  - ForceReratingAtCurrentCronJobProcessor

Organizations Hierarchies¶

Configure customers with complex organization hierarchies: offices, departments, and so on.

Support customers having multiple billable center costs.

Organization structure can change over time.

You can use Asterisell for call reporting inside a big organization.

Configure users with distinct permissions inside the same organization, and send them scheduled reports.

Import CDRs¶

Import Call Detail Records (CDRs) from local or remote database tables and files.

Many formats are supported, and many more can be added.

Manage recognition of ported telephone numbers.

Merge CDRs from two or more collaborating VoIP servers, creating a single logical call.0

# Call Flow Merge Rule
name: outgoing_SBC
direction: outgoing
description: Outgoing call.
merge: mgw1:MGW -> ipbx1:IPBX -> sbc1:SBC
conditions:
  - mgw1.last_half_of_unique_id = sbc1.callid
  - mgw1.first_half_of_unique_id = ipbx1.last_half_of_unique_id
  - sbc1.status.calldestregid_isExternalVoIPVendor
vendor: sbc1.calldestregid
channel: implicit
billsec_from: sbc1
internal: ipbx1.src
external: sbc1.dst