Working with Traffic Classes and Prices Specifications¶
In this section
See also
- Traffic Classes Specifications
- Price Specifications
Rating phone services is possible only if there is a traffic classes specification in force with the Standard for voice data workflow, and a price specification for these services.
Traffic Classes Specification¶
Open the traffic classes specification in force and load or add manually area codes and, if necessary, groups of area codes. (A specification is in force, when it is in Active status, with the period which includes the date when the phone calls are made). If there is no such specification, you should create it.
Area codes and groups of area codes can be loaded into the traffic classes specification together with prices loading into the price specification. In this case, you should only specify the traffic classes in the specification.
Calls rating can be done without filling in the registry of groups of area codes. You may get along with loading only area codes. However, groups of area codes can simplify the description of traffic classes, and they can be also used for price specifications and generating reports.
Note that groups of area codes used for defining services cost in price specifications may differ from groups of area codes used for defining traffic classes. Notice also that all groups of area codes should be added into traffic classes specifications.
The registry of area code should also contain your own areas, i.e. areas used for assigning phone numbers to customers. If there are several area codes, you can combine them into one group (in the example below, see the Provider's codes group).
In the specification contents, via traffic classes, you should specify the correspondence between phone services, created in the product catalog, and call prefixes or groups of area codes.
A call prefix may belong to a number of groups of area codes at the same time. In this case, you should check that the groups in the traffic classes correspond to the same service. It means that the price specification has to contain no rows with Address A populated as your own group of area codes or you code, different groups of area codes in Address B with one and the same area code, and different services in Service. Otherwise, there may be errors in the sessions rating.
Make sure that the traffic classes specification contains all possible phone call directions, which may be incoming and outcoming for customers. Otherwise some calls would not be rated.
Having made any changes in the specification, you should update the registers.
Price Specification¶
To rate phone calls, you create price specifications, stating the traffic classes specification in force in their headings. Only areas and groups of area codes from this traffic classes specification can be used to define the cost of phone services.
Typically, you manually add to the price specification only price plans, and rows of the Session specification type in their contents. Other lines of the Billing period specification type are created during file loading.