Rate Group Management
Overview
Rate Group serves as a means of categorizing and organizing various rates or pricing plans associated with specific destinations or call types. It is an integral component for structuring the diverse pricing landscape within the telephony billing system.
Purpose
The primary purpose of Rate Groups in ASTPP is to define a systematic pricing structure for calls made to specific countries, regions, or even specific phone numbers. By grouping rates, service providers gain the flexibility to apply distinct pricing based on various factors, such as the destination of the call. This feature empowers providers with the ability to efficiently manage and tailor pricing plans to suit the unique requirements of different call scenarios, enhancing the overall precision and adaptability of the telephony billing system.
How will it work?
Tariff --> Rate Groups
Important Functional Buttons:
Search | To search any rate group name |
Create | To create any new rate group, click on create and fill up all required info. |
Status | Active / Inactive |
Duplicate | Duplicate Rate Group allows creating a rate group using any of the existing rate group. |
DELETE | Single or multiple selected rate groups will be deleted using this button. Along with the rate group deletion, all rate group-related data will be removed from the database. |
Add Rate Group
Click on the Create button as seen below screenshot, below configurations needs to be done for creating a new rate groups.
Add Rate Group configuration | |
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Reseller | Reseller is parent entity of this Rate Group who is owner of this group. |
Name | Name of Rate Group use for identification. |
Routing Prefix | If you are offering prefix based routing to your customers then you can define the prefix in this field. this prefix will use to route call based on the dialed prefixes. |
Status | Select status of rate group (Active/Inactive) |
Decimal Points | Select from 1 to 5 |
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BILLING | |
Markup (%) | Additional charges will be applicable on call cost. Example : If 10% markup defined in rate group and customer made call of $1 then system will charge customers 10% extra on $1 and that will be $1.1. |
Initial Increment | Initial block of increment which is use to do billing of calls. |
Increment | Rate of increment to calculate call cost.Example : 60 to charge every minute.This increment will be useful when increment is not defined in origination rate. |
Routing Types | ASTPP offers various type of routing strategies which you can define from here. |
Trunks | Select the trunks for LCR and routing.If no trunks selected then customers who are having the same rate group wouldn’t be able to make outbound calls. |
As shown in the above snap, once the configurations are done then click on the save button to add the new Rate group.
Duplicate Rate Group
Duplicate Rate Group allows creating a rate group using any of the existing rate group. When you will create any duplicate rate group, that time it will copy all the configuration including rate group settings and rates for the specified rate group.
DUPLICATE RATE GROUP INFORMATION | |
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New Rate Group Name | Please mention name of new Rate Group. Its just to use for identity of Rate Group. |
Rate Group | Here you need to select the Rate Group from which you would like to copy all the data, including Rate Group settings with allocated rates. |