Asterisell

Asterisell project is a Web based application for viewing, rating, and billing Asterisk VoIP calls.

Usage Scenario:

- you are a vendor of Voice over IP Telephony services (VoIP)
- your customers call other users who can reside on different telephone networks
- your customers pay you for this service
in order to route the calls on particular networks you have to use the services of other vendors
- you are a customer of others vendors
- you pays others vendors for this service

So Asterisell views you (the VoIP service provider) as a reseller of others vendors services. It permits to associate for every call a cost and an income. The cost is what the customer pays to the service provider and the cost is what the service provider pays to other vendors in order to route the call.

Features:

• Customer features:
• report of calls with aggregate totals
• many filter-criteria
• different sort-criteria
• export to CSV and MS Excel document
• many VoIP accounts associated with the same customer
• Administrator features:
• input fields are secure from intrusion attempts
• each customer could have a cost limit for the last 30 days
• informal currency conversion table for the test of cost limits
• administrator is advised via email if a customer pass its cost limit
• different cultures for each VoIP account or Customer
• prices and messages are displayed in the specified culture
• customers can be grouped into different price list categories
• different rate methods applicable to different time periods, customer categories, destination gateway channels, destination telephone network etc..
• customizable rate methods adding PHP Class respecting a specific interface
• generation of customer invoices
• delivery of emails with invoice details to customers
• support bulk generation of invoices and emails to all customers with associated incomes
• support for multi-currency invoices (not yet tested)
• problems during rate process are reported and signaled via email to the administrator
• General features:
• multi-culture and locales support (it_IT, en_US, ecc..)
• multi-currency support (not yet tested)

What is new in this release:

• Filters inside the Call Report are easier to use.
• The list of offices, can be ordered by theirs customers.
• Improved the Party form: now Parties must be customers of a company. After the update, the problem table will advise the administrator if the are parties to update.
• The Asterisell DEMO installation is updated to this last version.

What is new in version 3.4.0:

• Better rating methods, Call Detail Records processing, and error reporting.
• Many bugfixes and small improvements.

What is new in version 3.2.1:

• Better support for resellers.
• A summary call report for each customer, with useful info such as the most expensive dialed numbers/geographic locations.
• Many bugfixes and small improvements.

What is new in version 3.0.0:

• an improved user interface for the administrator;
• a simpler and customizable user interface for customers, with more filters, but that are displayed only when they make sense;
• the support of incoming, outcoming and internal calls;
• the support of number portability;
• customers can have one or more offices and each office one or more VoIP account;
• rating of calls and other administrative tasks are done off-line using configurable/customizable jobs reacting to events. This allows to customize the behavior of the application;
• stats and graphs about channels usage (number of concurrent calls);
• CDR table can accept Asterisk account not already configured, and they will be rated later.

What is new in version 2.1.0:

• Support of "exception rates" with higher priority with respect to "normal rates".
• Telephone prefixes can be associated with geographic location and connection type (mobile/fixed).
• Regression tests on different rate methods.
• Various improvements to queries, user interface, and documentation.

What is new in version 0.9.10:

• Various bugfixes and a 6x speedup.

Requirements:

• Apache
• PHP
• MySQL Community Edition
• Asterisk