This submenu allows the creation of Call Plans and to add Rate Cards to them. A Call Plan is composed of one or more Rate Cards. A Rate Card can contain one or more Rates. Rates to a given destination are associated to a given Trunk Technology.
The creation of a Call Plan implies the following tasks:
- Provider: Create a new provider in the system, give it a name.
- Trunk: Add a new trunk technology to the system, the trunk technology is the technological mechanism that the provider uses to route calls (SIP, IAX, local, etc.). If you are familiar with asterisk, the trunk technology section contains the necessary information to route calls via a certain provider making use of a given channel. As this information is very provider dependent, it could be the case not all parameters can be entered via a2billing interface. If that is the case, you will have to edit the sip.conf, iax.conf files manually and point to the manually configured [trunk_name] in a2billing
- Rate Card: Create a new rate card that will cluster a collection of rates
- Rate: A Rate specifies the costs related to a given destination via a given trunk. It includes the buying and selling costs and what prefix needs to be used to reach this rate.
- Call Plan: Create a Call Plan and add Rate Cards to it.
- Customer: Associate a Call Plan to your customer.
