User manualA2billing

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Table of Contents1.0 Login....................................................................................................................................................32.0 Add a Provider.....................................................................................................................................4

2.1 Add a Trunk.....................................................................................................................................52.2 Adding a Rate Card.........................................................................................................................82.3 Adding rate......................................................................................................................................82.4 Adding Multiple Rates...................................................................................................................102.5 Adding a Call Plan.........................................................................................................................11

3.0 Adding a Customer.............................................................................................................................133.1 VoIP customers..............................................................................................................................153.2 Generate customers.......................................................................................................................16

4.0 Paypal.................................................................................................................................................17

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1.0 Login• Open your web browser.

• Enter IP Adress of A2Billing server. Following screen will be displayed.

• Enter username and password and click LOGIN.

• Following screen will be displayed.

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2.0 Add a Provider• Click on PROVIDERS in the left navigation panel to expand the submenu.

• Click on Providers in the submenu.

• Now click on Add Provider. Following screen will be displayed.

• Enter your provider name and description.

• Then click on CONFIRM DATA.

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2.1 Add a Trunk

• Click on Trunks in PROVIDERS submenu.

• Click on Add Trunk. It will display the following screen.

• Select the VOIP PROVIDER that you just created.

• Provide the label to identify the trunk.

• Enter SIP in PROVIDER TECH (or any other technology whatever your VoIP provider is providing).

• Enter the IP address or URL of your VoIP Provider in PROVIDER IP. You can also put your freepbx trunk name if its already set up.

• Open your FreePBX in a new browser and click Trunks in left panel.

• Next click “Add SIP Trunk” in main page.

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• Your carrier will provide you details on how to interconnect. If you find different sets of configuration from your carrier look for FreePBX or Asterisk configuration.

• When done click Submit Changes button.

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• Next click on “Apply configuration changes”.

• Click “Continue with reload”.

• Now return to A2biling enter trunk name in “Provider IP” same as you defined in FreePBX in “Trunk Name” field and click CONFIRM DATA.

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2.2 Adding a Rate Card

• Click on RATES in the left side navigation panel.

• Then click Rate Cards from the submenu.

• Click Add RateCard. This will show following form.

• In TARIFFNAME, enter a name for your rate card.

• Select the trunk you created in the previous section.

• Click CONFIRM DATA.

2.3 Adding rate

• Now we need to add a rate to our new ratecard. The rate is what determines how much we pay for the call and how much we charge for it.

• Click on Rates in the RATES submenu.

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• Now click on Add Rate. It will show the following form.

• Select the RateCard you just created.

• DESTINATION PREFIX is just a text description field.

• BUYING RATE is what you will pay for the call per minute.

• BUYRATE MIN DURATION is the shortest time you will be billed for a call – check with your trunk provider.

• BUYRATE BILLING BLOCK is the time increment you will be billed for a call – check with your trunk provider.

• SELLING RATE – this is how much you will charge per minute for the call.

• SELLRATE MIN DURATION is the shortest time you will charge for a call.

• SELLRATE BILLING BLOCK is the time increment you will charge for a call.

• Click on CONFIRM DATA to add the rate.

2.4 Adding Multiple Rates

• Click on »»Import from the RATES submenu. Following screen will be shown.

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• Select the ratecard you created.

• Select the following additional fields and click on right arrow button one by one as shown in the screenshot.

◦ Sellrate min duration

◦ sellrate billing block

◦ buyrate

◦ buyrate min duration

◦ buyrate billing block

• Now you need to create a text file to import multiple rates one per line. Consult the following sample values.

9370;AFGHANISTAN-MOBILE;0.409656;60;60;0.31512;60;60

9375;AFGHANISTAN-MOBILE;0.409656;60;60;0.31512;60;60

355;ALBANIA;0.07332;60;60;0.0564;60;60

30;GREECE;0.02184;60;60;0.0168;60;60

3021;GREECE-ATHENS;0.02184;60;60;0.0168;60;60

30697;GREECE-MOBILE;0.229788;60;60;0.17676;60;60

961;LEBANON;0.135096;60;60;0.10392;60;60

96176;LEBANON-MOBILE;0.268944;60;60;0.20688;60;60

9613;LEBANON-MOBILE;0.268944;60;60;0.20688;60;60

• Click the Browse button and browse the CSV file you just created.

• Click on Import RateCard to import the rates.

2.5 Adding a Call Plan

• Click on Call Plan from RATES submenu.

• Click on Add Callplan. Following form will appear.

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• Enter a NAME for your callplan.

• Click on CONFIRM DATA.

• Click the Edit icon against the callplan you just created.

• Select the RATECARD and click ADD RATECARD button.

• Click CONFIRM DATA.

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3.0 Adding a Customer• Click on CUSTOMERS on the left side navigation panel.

• Now click Add::Search from the CUSTOMERS submenu.

• Then click Add Customer. It will display a huge form shown below.

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• BALANCE – set the inital balance for the customer. Only needed for prepaid customers.• CALL PLAN – select the call plan we created in the previous section.

• LASTNAME & FIRSTNAME – not required but useful.

• Click on CONFIRM DATA to add the customer.

3.1 VoIP customers

• Click on “VoIP Settings” in the left side navigation panel under CUSTOMERS.

• Click on “GENERATE ADDITIONAL_A@BILLING_SIP>CONF”.

• Click on “Click here to reload your asterisk server”.

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3.2 Generate customers

• Expand CUSTOMERS in left panel.

• Click Add::search underneath it.

• On right side of page click on Generate customers.

• Enter a number in 2) field.

• 3) would be the call plan for all generated customers.

• Check SIP, IAX or both as needed in 13) for VoIP only customers.

• Select Customer group in 15) if any otherwise select DEFAULT.

• If you are providing DID service also choose a group here in 18) however you have to create first.

• Click on GENERATE CUSTOMERS.

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4.0 Paypal• System settings > Global List > show all

• search for: paypal_payment_url

• Enter the value: https://secure.paypal.com/cgi-bin/scr

• search for: paypal_verify_url

• Enter the value: ssl://www.paypal.com

• search for: PayPal? Store

• Enter here your store name: e.g MyVoIp? Shop

• If you make here no changes your clients will see A2Billing

• If you don't want to charge the paypal fee to your customers search for: charge_paypal_fee and set the value to "Yes"

• Menu > Billing > Payment methods > click to paypal view details

• set the value to true and enter your paypal mail adress

• Paypal website settings

• Check where this file is located on your server :

• Normally its in your domain/A2Billing/customer/checkout_process.php

• Take the full URL from the checkout_process.php. For example http://myserver.net/a2billing/customer/checkout_process.php

• Login into your paypal account

• click to profile > Selling Preferences > Website Payment Preferences

• set the tab "Auto return" on

• Return URL: Enter your URL with the checkout_process.php for example: http://myserver.net/a2billing/customer/checkout_process.php

• save the settings.

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