BillBery Billing and Management is a full-featured solution for those who want to start own VoIP business, extend existing one or want to get their services to a new level.

 

It’s structure and features move it far beyond your “generic billing solution”. BillBery is a complex software, which is able to maintain full spectrum of business activities, without usage of any additional third-party software.

 

Performance

• Monthly processed VoIP traffic capacity over 500 million minutes;
• Unlimited number of clients or subscriptions;
• Base setup requires only 1 dedicated server;
• Expandable cluster architecture for fast performance and capacity boost.

 

Scalability / Reliability

• Redundant setup for warm or hot standby;
• Real-time database replication;
• Clustered database allocation support;
• Dynamic load balancing for extreme levels of performance.

 

Business Models

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Wholesale Telephony
Wholesale transit traffic exchange is a base of whole VoIP industry. VoIP traffic transit service is supplied by transit telecom operators in a chain-like manner, until the actual call reaches VoIP termination provider and is successfully terminated to local PSTN network. So, the generalized VoIP business scheme may look like this: source customer (the one that calls) → local VoIP service provider → VoIP traffic transit company (or a whole network of them) → VoIP termination provider → PSTN network. So, in truth, transit traffic exchange companies may be considered the transporting medium of VoIP.

Such business setup usually includes a switch, billing server, support for H.323 and SIP protocols and contracts with several origination / termination partners. As such, this is mostly a Class 4 featured type of business, based on post-paid operations.

Let’s take a brief overview of what BillBery can offer for this business model:

• Dynamic routing with profitability and capacity control, to maximize your business incomes;
• Customers management and accounting, tracking of invoices, payments and balances;
• Rate tables management, including smart importing tools, automatic targets and offers generator and more;
• Advanced accounting features, cash flow control, mutual settlements;
• Resellers / agents network of unlimited depth;
• Subscription services and products billing and management;
• Reporting and analyzing tools, including detailed and profitability reports;
• Real-time monitoring and quality control, to keep facilities in perfect shape;
• Rock-solid stability and unparalleled performance;
• Web-based billing workspace, that features convenient user interface. Personal web access is available for you, your resellers, agents, customers and partners.

 

Retail Telephony
Any VoIP activities start from retail sales of telecom services to end-users. There are many methods of delivering a retail service, most notable are: DID sales and management, office telephony, local telecom provisioning, virtual telecom networks, PC-to-Phone and Phoneto-PC, etc.

Retail services represent a considerable chunk of VoIP market. Since services go straight to end-users, this business model provides widest range of options, rate plans, customerbased eatures etc. Mainly, features of Class switching equipment are used in conjunction ith pre-paid billing type of operations. With BillBery, every single feature of retail business is available to you, even something new, not implemented by anyone else! As an example of features provided by BillBery, we can note the following ones:

• Pre-paid and post-paid access for your customers and credit lines;
• VoIP retail products or any other subscription services billing;
• DID management interface;
• Advanced retail billing policies (rate plans, time profiles, promotions);
• Unlimited customers database management;
• Customer’s control panel that can be asily integrated with your web-site;
• Pre-paid top-up cards, integration with third-party payment gateways;
• PC-to-PC, PC-to-Phone, Phone-to-PC services deployment and provisioning;
• XML-RPC API support for integration with custom applications via BillBery Application Server;
• Pinless calls, callback, click-to-call and other retail services deployment and billing.

 

PSTN Termination
PSTN termination is what connects VoIP with classic telephony. In fact, it is almost the same as usual wholesale termination in VoIP, the only difference is that such business model requires specific equipment (with TDM / ISDN protocol support) and termination is done right into PSTN network.

 

With today’s avalanche-like development of VoIP industry, the direct PSTN termination offers further VoIP market expansion and new business opportunities, such as provisioning of new digital services with drastically lowered prices for local and international calls. Surely, these possibilities can’t be ignored, and that’s why PSTN termination business model becomes more and more popular.

 

As mentioned above, this business type almost copies the general wholesale transit termination setup with addition of TDM / ISDN compliant termination equipment and, of course, a billing solution that supports it. Let’s take a brief look of what BillBery offers:

• Any existing TDM / ISDN compliant equipment support;
• Fast and easy integration with multiple gateways;
• ISUP messages billing and management;
• Smart management and accounting tools;
• Real-time monitoring and fail-safe production environment;
• Mobile Number Portability (MNP) billing support.

Switch Partitioning
Switch partitioning or outsourced switching is fairly new to VoIP industry, but already proved itself as solid business model. Plainly speaking – you create some leasable facilities based on your equipment, and rent them, allowing other companies / people to conclude their own type of VoIP business. The benefits for customer companies are clearly visible: they will be taking care only of their own business activities, while the partitioner will take care of all technical issues, bugs and maintenance tasks.

 

Thus, this managed switch partitioning makes it possible for people or companies to terminate calls or data with significantly reduced costs. This encourages even more calls to be made and, therefore, increases business productivity.

 

With BillBery, you can easily provide such services, and even more, you can easily combine outsourced switching with any other business model you have running. And all of this is available within one licensed BillBery copy. The benefits over generic billing solutions are the following:

• Rent your facilities, even if your switch equipment does not support this functionality;
• Isolated dynamic routing environment for each lessee;
• Independent capacity control for each reseller, customer, account and destination;
• Unified single billing interface for all partition clients and their customers.

Calling Cards
Provisioning of calling cards or phone cards, is a type of pre-paid service, that allows your customers to make cheap long distance calls (local or international).

There are no monthly bills, no detailed statements or longstanding subscriptions. The customer simply pays for calling time in advance and is free to make any calls within that balance limit.

BillBery provides you with convenient calling card generation engine, detailed statistics for each calling card and a lot of other features:

• Card series generation and management;
• Manage your calling cards start and expire dates;
• Precise call time calculation, auto-disconnect on zero balance;
• Route and authorize all cards dynamically by utilizing RADIUS and Dynamic Routing;
• Authorize and process your calling cards with any Class 5 compliant equipment;
• Summary and detailed reports per card / card series.

Call Shops
Call shop is a place-based privately owned retail VoIP business, that enables customers to make calls at a significantly lower rates than through PSTN networks. A call shop can be situated in key locations of a city, or in specific places such as hotels, restaurants, cafes, universities, supermarkets, schools etc.

 

BillBery provides integrated call shop module, which is easy to deploy, use and maintain. The benefits it offers for call shop business are hard to ignore:

• Extend your retail customers base by providing phone services in key places;
• Use single licensed BillBery copy to support large call shop networks all around the globe;
• Route all calls dynamically, to maximize incomes and service quality;
• Different rates and currencies for different call shops, all within one billing engine;
• Monitor every call booth, call activity, destinations and balance usage;
• Control call time duration by pre-paid amount or allowed credit.

Features and Functions
Clients Management

• Pre- and Post-paid customers;
• Unlimited number of customers and vendors;
• Unlimited number of gateways per customer (identification by IP, Name, ANI), technical and billing prefixes support;
• Automatic and manual invoicing;
• Manageable payment terms;
• Mutual settlements, tracking of invoices, debts, payments and pre-payments;
• Multi-currency support for companies with international operations;
• Calling cards generation / management;
• Call shops management / operation.

Dynamic Routing

• Routing policies (LCR, Quality, Proportional), development of own routing formulas;
• Profitability control, blocking of unprofitable calls;
• Capacity control and active calls;
• Dynamic number translation;
• Detailed routes analysis and simulation;
• Unparalleled routing performance;
• Routing plans support for easy management of complex routing schemes;
• SIP Redirect Server for switches that don’t have native dynamic routing capabilities.

Rates Management

• Management of rate tables with unlimited destinations;
• Smart import and export (CSV / XLS file format support), rates history tracking;
• Rates scheduling (effective / end dates);
• Extended billing schemes (setup fee, min. time, interval, grace time);
• Time-profiles support;
• Mass Edit for rates bulk processing;
• Multiple currencies in rates;
• Manageable customer’s invoices and payments;
• Real-time rates and LCR analysis;
• Target lists generator, based on actual rates and traffic;
• Offers generator, based on actual rates and statistics;
• Taxes management;
• Support for Mobile Number Portability (MNP) billing.

Statistics Reports

• Report data filtering per customer / vendor, account, destination, code, time, reseller etc;
• Summary report: easy real-time access to aggregated data;
• CDR detailed report: detailed per-call information;
• Orig-Term report: routes tracking, profitability, quality;
• Graphical charts;
• Report-to-email functions support.

 

Resellers / Partitioning

• Each reseller owns and manages it’s own rate tables;
• The same goes for all invoicing, accounting and routing features;
• Reseller, agent and / or dealer trees of unlimited depth;
• Isolated and safe environment for your resellers and their customers;
• Three-level-billing to charge resellers for termination;
• Create and manage partitioned domains, even if your switch platform does not support this feature;
• Enable Dynamic Routing and your resellers will have full control over their routing policies, without access to your switching equipment;
• Isolated routing and capacity control for each partitioned domain.

 

Real-time Quality Control

• Real-time active calls monitoring;
• Automatic and manual blocking of fraudulent calls and gateways;
• FAS detection support;
• Constant real-time monitoring of channels quality with e-mail or SMS notifications;
• Vendor notifications regarding channels quality.

 

Integration
BillBery Billing and Management Solution stands out from the crowd by supporting all known switch system families and possessing the ability to be integrated practically in any existing business model. Since switch platforms are different and business models are various, we insured that BillBery will comply with all existing VoIP standards.

 

XML-RPC API Application Server
XML-RPC API allows all BillBery functions to be easily integrated with any other third-party software. The Application Server is already supplied with ready-for-production web-portal and gives full scope to your own business ideas.

RADIUS AAA
An integration method for advanced features usage, such as dynamic real-time authorization, accounting, pre- and post-paid billing, routing etc. Also, it’s really easy to connect to any switch system that supports RADIUSprotocol.

 

CDR-files Processing
With this method all calls data is written in files, which are processed by BillBery later. Reliability of this integration type stands unmatched,
but it supports only one possible billing model: a pre-paid billing.

 

SIP Redirect Server
For some switch families that have limitations in support of Dynamical Routing, BillBery features a built-in SIP Redirect Server, that allows to overcome those limitations and deliver a full range of RADIUS-based routing.

 

 

Pricing & Terms

Package	Small	Medium	Large	Unlimited
Call Legs (per month)	up to 3 mil	up to 18 mil	up to 70 mil	unlimited **
Number of Calls (per month)	~1.5 mil	~9 mil	~35 mil	unlimited **
Average Simul. Calls	~120 mil	~750 mil	~3000 mil	unlimited **
Price *	6000 USD	10500 USD	22600 USD	contact us
Basic Support (6 months)	415 USD	735 USD	1750 USD	contact us
Premium Support (6 months)	990 USD	1750 USD	3700 USD	contact us

* - license price includes 6 month Basic Support package
** - no limit by license, limited only by power of your hardware

Upgrade Terms

Upgrades between BillBery packages requires a payment of difference between package prices (for example, BillBery Small -> BillBery Medium, payment required: 10500 USD - 6000 USD = 4500 USD). Also, support package price and/or term will be recalculated to match new BillBery package conditions.

 

Upgrades of BillBery version (for example from 2.7.0 to 3.0.0) is free for owners of Premium Support package. If you do not have active Premium Support package and need to upgrade your BillBery, you'll have to purchase at least the smallest Premium Support package.

 

And also you can upgrade your support package from Basic to Premium just paying the difference. For example, if you want to buy BillBery Medium License with Premium Support it will be 10500 USD for license plus 1750 - 735 USD = 1015 USD for upgrade of support package.

 

Refund Policy

Our Billing and Management Solution is available for purchase as fully-functional product, on try-before-buy terms. We provide free trial periods to let you fully evaluate our product before you make a purchase decision. Please use the trial period to make sure that the software meets your needs before purchasing a license.

 

If you purchase BillBery Billing and Management Solution, after your payment has cleared you'll be assigned an unique license number. Once this information is emailed to you, no refunds will be given. We have this policy since it would be impossible for you to return your licensed version of our software.

 

During your trial period, our support staff is available to assist in installation and configuration via email or Ticketing System. We strongly recommend that all customers test the trial version of our product prior to making a purchase. Acceptance of this Refund Policy It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with this refund policy. By placing an order for our billing solution, you indicate that you have read this refund policy and that you agree with and fully accept the terms of this refund policy. If you do not agree with or fully accept the terms of this refund policy, we ask that you do not place an order with us.

 

Acceptance of this Refund Policy

It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with this refund policy. By placing an order for our billing solution, you indicate that you have read this refund policy and that you agree with and fully accept the terms of this refund policy.

 

System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

The following configurations will guarantee stable and failure-free production environment under mentioned circumstances. Please choose advanced configuration in case of high-load business model (RADIUS authorization + Dynamical Routing + peak volumes allowed by license). When choosing server hardware, please make sure that all components are compatible with recommended operating systems.

 

BillBery Small

• CPU: Intel Xeon Dual Core 1.8Ghz (basic) or Intel Xeon Dual Core 2.4Ghz (advanced)
• RAM: 2 Gb
• HDD subsystem: 80Gb SATA II HDD (basic) or 120Gb SATA II HDD (advanced)

BillBery Medium

• CPU: Intel Xeon Dual Core 2.4Ghz (basic) or Intel Xeon Quad Core 2.4Ghz (advanced)
• RAM: 4 Gb
• HDD subsystem: 160Gb RAID 1 SATA II HDD (basic) or 300Gb RAID 1 SATA II HDD (advanced)
• Hardware RAID controlled with 256+Mb of cache is recommended (for example, Dell PERC 6 controller)

BillBery Large

• CPU: Intel Xeon Dual Core 3Ghz (basic) or Intel Xeon Quad Core 3Ghz (advanced)
• RAM: 8 Gb
• HDD subsystem: 300Gb RAID 0+1 SATA II (basic) or 300Gb RAID 0+1 SCSI (advanced)
• Hardware RAID controlled with 256+Mb of cache is required (for example, Dell PERC 6 controller)

BillBery Unlimited

• CPU: Intel Xeon Quad Core 3+Ghz (basic) or Intel Xeon 2xQuad Core 3+Ghz (advanced)
• RAM: 16+ Gb
• HDD subsystem: 500Gb RAID 0+1 SAS 15kRPM (basic) or 1000Gb RAID 0+1 SAS 15kRPM (advanced)
• Hardware RAID controlled with 256+Mb of cache is required (for example, Dell PERC 6 controller)

Please note, that actual traffic limits for Unlimited package depend on server hardware. With proposed specifications such traffic volumes are equal to over 300 million calls per month for basic configuration and over 600 million calls per month for advanced configuration

 

Brand-name server configuration

Please note, that all brand-name configurations are considered to be advanced configurations.

 

BillBery Small - Dell PowerEdge 2950 III

• CPU: Dual Core Intel® Xeon® E5205, 6MB Cache, 1.86GHz, 1066MHz FSB
• RAM: 2GB 667MHz (2x1GB), Single Ranked DIMMs
• HDD Configuration: Integrated SAS/SATA No RAID, SAS 6/iR Integrated
• Primary Controller: SAS 6/iR Integrated Controller
• Primary Hard Drive: 160GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
• Network Adapter: Dual Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC

BillBery Medium - Dell PowerEdge 2950 III

• CPU: Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E5405, 2x6MB Cache, 2.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB
• RAM: 4GB 667MHz (4x1GB), Single Ranked DIMMs
• HDD Configuration: Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 1, PERC 6/i Integrated/SAS6/iR
• Primary Controller: PERC6i SAS RAID Controller, 2x4 Connectors, Int, PCIe, 256MB Cache
• Primary Hard Drive: 146GB 10,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI 3GBps Hard Drive, 2.5-inch, Hot Plug
• 2nd Hard Drive: 146GB 10,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI 3GBps Hard Drive, 2.5-inch, Hot Plug
• Network Adapter: Dual Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC

BillBery Large - Dell PowerEdge 2950 III

• CPU: Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E5450, 2x6MB Cache, 3.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB
• RAM: 8GB 667MHz (4x2GB), Dual Ranked DIMMs
• HDD Configuration: Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 10, PERC 6/i Integrated
• Primary Controller: PERC6i SAS RAID Controller, 2x4 Connectors, Int, PCIe, 256MB Cache
• Primary Hard Drive: 146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attached SCSI 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
• 2nd Hard Drive: 146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attached SCSI 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
• 3nd Hard Drive: 146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attached SCSI 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
• 4th Hard Drive: 146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attached SCSI 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
• Network Adapter: Dual Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC

BillBery Unlimited - Dell PowerEdge 2950 III

• CPU: 2xQuad Core Intel® Xeon® X5470, 2X6MB Cache, 3.33GHz, 1333MHz FSB
• RAM: 16GB 667MHz (4x4GB), Dual Ranked DIMMs
• HDD Configuration: Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 10, PERC 6/i Integrated
• Primary Controller: PERC6i SAS RAID Controller, 2x4 Connectors, Int, PCIe, 256MB Cache
• Primary Hard Drive: 146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attached SCSI 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
• 2nd Hard Drive: 146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attached SCSI 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
• 3nd Hard Drive: 146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attached SCSI 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
• 4th Hard Drive: 146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attached SCSI 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
• Network Adapter: Dual Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC

Software Requirements

The recommended operating systems for all BillBery licenses are: CentOS 5.5 or RedHat EL 5.5 (for brand-name servers). Please note, that these OS should be 64-bit. Also, BillBery can be deployed on any GNU Linux-compatible OS which supports and has the following dependies already installed:

• PostgreSQL >= 8.4
• Python >= 2.6 (with psycopg2, egenix-mx, zlib modules)
• Apache HTTPd >= 2.2 (with rewrite modules)
• PHP >= 5.2 (with xml, gd, iconv, zlib, json, mbstring, mcrypt, pgsql modules)
• Zend Optimizer >= 3.3.3