Billing

Billing Feature Overview

• Two price types in CDR: Customer and operator (for comparing operators).
• Multiple billing tables: For each operator and customer.
• Billing watchdog rules: Quotas per hour/day/week/month aggregated by src IP or tel. number.
• Billing watchdog rules: For expensive destinations.

Settings > Billing Configuration

Sections: Billing type/rules, state holidays, operator assignment, customer assignment, exclude, aggregation, currency, settings.

Billing Type / Rules

Create at least one billing table for customer/operator prices. For operator-only, create per operator and assign in "operator assignment" without "Default customer billing".

• Name: Billing table name.
• State holidays: Assign holidays table for peak/offpeak.
• Default price: Per-minute (offpeak if peak/offpeak enabled).
• Enable peak/offpeak: For time-based billing.
• Default price peak: Peak per-minute.
• Default T1: First impulse seconds.
• Default T2: Period length (e.g., 30s call, T1=10, T2=6: Bill 10 + 4*6 = 34s).
• Default customer billing: Applies to unassigned customers.

Add billing rules (CSV export/import):

• Name: Rule name.
• Prefix number: Match prefix.
• Fixed number: Match exact.
• Price: Destination (offpeak if enabled).
• Price peak: Peak destination.
• Override default peak/offpeak: Custom times.
• T1: Custom first impulse.
• T2: Custom period.

State Holidays

Holidays table for offpeak treatment. Define only for peak/offpeak billing.

Operator Assignment

Rules per operator with billing table. Excludes customer price for operator calls (bills outgoing only). For both prices: One default customer table, assign operator tables here.

Override international prefixes per operator (see #settings).

Customer Assignment

Apply different tables to customers by src IP or tel. numbers/prefixes if default insufficient.

Override international prefixes per customer (see #settings).

Exclude

Rules to exclude billing by src/dst IP or tel. prefixes/numbers.

Aggregation

Summarizes costs by src IP/tel. number for hour/day/week/month/year. Used in fraud/alerts for quota rules.

Settings

• Enable by addresses: Per src IP.
• Enable by numbers: Per tel. number.
• Week start.
• Hours/days/weeks/months/years: Retention periods.

Exclude Addresses

Exclude src/dst IPs (e.g., operators/SIP proxies) for customer-only data.

Exclude Numbers

Exclude src/dst numbers. Prioritize addresses to avoid unnecessary data.

Currency

Optional for single currency. Multiple: Recalculates to main via Google rates (view-only, not stored).

• Code: e.g., USD.
• Custom code: Symbol, e.g., "$".
• Name: Currency name.
• Country: Select.
• Main currency: Recalculate all to this.
• Description.

Settings

• International prefixes: Distinguish local/international (default: 00, +).
• Min. international length: Treat longer numbers as international if no prefix.
• Local numbers are in: Prefix local numbers with international code for selected country.

Watchdog

In Alerts/Anti Fraud: Two rules requiring aggregation enabled.

Billing Over Quota

Checks billed sums per src IP/tel. number or groups for periods. Alerts on thresholds.

• Enabled: On/off.
• Every N minutes: Check frequency.
• Enable hyperlinks: Links in emails.
• Hour/day/week/month: Max costs.
• Summary: Aggregate included callers/IPs.
• Include/Exclude IP/numbers: Filter calls. None: Per individual IP/number.

Billing High Rate

Alerts on destinations > cost/minute threshold.

• Enabled: On/off.
• Every N minutes: Check frequency.
• Enable hyperlinks: Links in emails.
• Limit: Cost/minute threshold.
• Include/Exclude IP/numbers: Filter calls. None: Per individual IP/number.

AI Summary for RAG

Summary: This article overviews VoIPmonitor's billing features: Price types, tables, watchdog rules for quotas/expensive destinations; configuration sections for types/rules, holidays, assignments, excludes, aggregation, currency, settings; and watchdog details.

Keywords: billing, customer price, operator price, billing tables, peak/offpeak, currency, watchdog, quota, high rate

Key Questions:

• What are the key billing features in VoIPmonitor?
• How to create and configure billing tables/rules?
• What is state holidays for in billing?
• How to exclude calls from billing?
• How to handle multiple currencies?
• What are international prefix settings?
• How do billing watchdog rules function?