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Screenshot: Resellers section

 

Column name

Description

ID

Reseller's/manager's identification number

Name

Name of reseller/manager
Available Balance
Reseller's available balance (live balance + credit)
ClientsTotal amount of a respective reseller's/manager's clients
CardsTotal amount of a respective reseller's/manager's calling cards
Call ShopsTotal number of a respective reseller's/manager's call shops


The following functional buttons and icons are present in the section:

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Screenshot: Advanced Search drop-down menu

FieldDescription

Mode

Select a mode for resellers display:

  • Normal Mode - only resellers with Active status will be displayed
  • Archive Mode - all resellers regardless of the status will be displayed

To apply the specified search criteria, press Search button; to cancel the applied parameters, press Reset button.

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Information blockFields Description
System InformationGeneral information about a company
  • Name
Specify the name of one of your companies (or affiliates). This field is mandatory. 
  • Parent
Indicate a parent for a reseller or make it a root one. By default, field value is set to root 
  • Currency
Select a preferred currency for rates and invoices from the drop-down list of available ones (see Currencies section) 
  • Status

Define a status of reseller:

  • Active
  • Deleted 
  • Client Template
Select a template that will be used for all clients belonging to this reseller or manager by default (see Clients Template section) 
  • Tax Profile

Indicate a tax profile that will be used for this reseller and reflected in invoices (refers to Taxes Profiles section).

  • SureTax is a tax, levied on top of another tax. It allows to manage your compliance with tax law. This profile is used for further calculation in invoices. To get more details, check out the article How to set SureTax profile?"US Taxation".


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(warning)(warning)   Attention

For proper usage of SureTax, Invoice Number should contain only Latin and numeric characters. Max length is 40 symbols. Dst and Src Numbers should be in NPANXXNNNN (10 digits) format. 


  • Gateways
Select gateway(s) for this reseller 

Terminator Settings


Reseller's billing settings for outcoming calls
  • TERM Rates

Rates for outgoing events from customers under current reseller. Enables resellers billing mode

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Tip

For more information about resellers billing mode, address this article


  • TERM Capacity
Termination capacity for all clients, belonging to this reseller. Leave this field empty for unlimited capacity

Fraud Protection checkbox


Enables/disables administrator notification in case of multiple simultaneous calls made to the same number from the current Reseller.

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(warning)(warning)   Attention

Please note that all notifications can be found in System > Events Log. If you want to receive them on exact email, go to Configuration tab of Events Log section, and add a new rule with the indication of target email and aaa.fraud value in Tag field.

Here you need to specify the following:

  • Notification frequency
Set minimum time in seconds between sent notifications (minimum interval must be ≥ 0 sec)
  • Skip digits
Define amount of the last number digits which will be ignored when determining a destination number. For instance, with one digit for ignoring, the numbers 123456 and 123457 will be considered as the same number
Origination Settings







Current Reseller's billing settings for incoming calls
  • Postpaid checkbox

Here you can set specific paid mode for a client. Postpaid mode means that client will have unlimited credit. Otherwise, client's Balance + Credit value will be checked on RADIUS or SIP authorization. When this field is checked, Credit field become unavailable.

  • Credit
Additional field next to Postpaid checkbox. User can indicate an amount of reseller's credit
  • ORIG Rates
Specify rates for incoming events from customers under current reseller. Enables resellers billing mode
  • ORIG Capacity
Indicate origination capacity for all clients, belonging to this reseller. Leave this field empty for unlimited capacity

Invoicing Information

Current Reseller's invoicing settings

  • Date

Allows you to select how system sets invoicing date:

  • Real date – sets invoicing date to actual invoicing date

  • Last day – sets invoicing date to date of last day of invoicing period

 
  • Template
Select an invoice template that will be assigned to reseller 
  • No Tpl
Allows to define default format of invoice's name
  • Last No
Define last used invoice number
SureTax Settings

SureTax profile settings. SureTax is a third-party tax calculation engine. This tax calculation is based on the location of the customer’s taxing jurisdiction. This profile is used for further calculation in invoices. To  
To get more details, check out the article : How to set SureTax profile?"US Taxation".

  • Client Number
Specify a unique number that identify an individual in the SureTax service
  • Validation Key
Defien a unique validation key of the SureTax service.
Contact Information




Some additional information

E-mail

Company's email (it is required to specify email in order to receive notifications). Use only Latin characters. This field is mandatory
  • Postal Address
Company's postal address 
  • Tax ID
An ID of tax paying entity 
  • Reg ID
Company's registration ID 
  • Bank Account

Company's bank account info 


Company LogoHere you can add a file with company's logo. To delete the company logo, open the edit form of a respective Reseller with logo, then click the delete icon to remove the old logo.
Mail TemplatesA detailed description of all Mail Templates and their configuration is presented at the end of the article

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(warning)(warning)   Attention

  • Сhanges of Resellers' settings will not be applied instantly. They will be automatically reloaded at the next run of Cache Manager service.
  • Parent Reseller has access to all information of his Sub-Resellers and also can assign any routing plan and rate table to his Sub-Resellers.

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(warning)(warning)   Attention

Email Rates Import Settings infromation block has been removed from Resellers settings in VCS 3.16.0 due to introduction of Data Source section.

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  • If any rate table (child) in the system has the assigned parent rate table, clients will be notified through Rate Notification service about changes in both tables.

  • If child and parent rate tables both have the rule for the same code, priority is given to a child one. However, if the rule in a child rate table has expired due to End date field value, and a parent rule is still active, notifications will regard the latter one.

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To configure these settings, open Rate Notifications tab in reseller profile. The structure of the tab is as follows:

FieldDescription
Date FormatSpecify date format in your export file. Example of field syntax: if you enter “%d-%m-%Y” here, your date will look like 25-02-2018
Code DeckSelect a code deck here to rewrite code names in export file if needed
Codes OutputSelect a way, codes must be displayed
  • Separate rows
Each code is placed into single row
  • Delimited list
Codes are grouped by code name in a row, for example, 5510, 5511, 5512
  • Ranges list
Codes are grouped by code name into ranges plus delimiter, for example, 5510-5512, 5515
Data FormatSpecify an output file format, .xls or .csv
Fields DelimiterSet delimiter for fields if you've chosen .csv. For .xls format this field is unavailable
With headers row checkboxInclude into the file a row with column names
Codes from code deck checkboxInclude only codes which are present in a specified Code Deck
Header text / Footer textAllows you to specify additional text into exported file as header and footer, respectively


Description of all columns that could be selected for rate notification is provided below:

Column Name
Description
Code / Code NameCode or Code Name of respective rate
Effective DateDate on which a rate to be applied
RatePrice
Min VolumeMinimum volume of chargeable events
IntervalChargeable interval
Grace VolumeFree of charge interval
Setup FeeInterval of setup fee
ProfileTime profile (all time, business time, non-business time, weekends)
End DateDate on which the rate ends
Previous RateRate used before the present time
Prev DiffShows how current rate differs from a previous one after import
Prev Diff StatusShows how current rate's status changed in comparison to a previous one (unchanged, increased, decreased)
Prev Diff (export) Shows how current rate differs from a previous one after export
Prev Diff Status (export)

Rate's changes after the last export. Shows the status how differs current rate from previous.
The rate will have an unchanged status if the Effective date of rate is lower than the Last Notification Date


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titlePrev Diff Status usage example


Step 1: Notification type: All rates unique mode - First Notification: 07/07/2017
CodeRateEffective FromPrevious RatePrev DiffPrev Diff StatusPrev Diff Status (export)
11007/01/2017 00:00:00 +0000--newunchanged
21007/01/2017 00:00:00 +0000--newunchanged
31007/01/2017 00:00:00 +0000--newunchanged
Step 2: Added new rates with effective date 07/21/2017 - Second Notification: 07/14/2017
CodeRateEffective FromPrevious RatePrev DiffPrev Diff StatusPrev Diff Status (export)
11507/21/2017 00:00:00 +0000105increasedincreased (5.0000)
21507/21/2017 00:00:00 +0000105increasedincreased (5.0000)
31507/21/2017 00:00:00 +0000105increasedincreased (5.0000)
Step 3: Rate with code 1 was edited and the increase was canceled - Third Notification: 07/21/2017
CodeRateEffective FromPrevious RatePrev DiffPrev Diff StatusPrev Diff Status (export)
11007/21/2017 00:00:00 +0000100unchangedunchanged
21507/21/2017 00:00:00 +0000105increasedincreased (5.0000)
31507/21/2017 00:00:00 +0000105increasedincreased (5.0000)
Step 4: Rate with code 2 was edited and added a new rate for code 3 - Fourth Notification: 07/28/2017
CodeRateEffective FromPrevious RatePrev DiffPrev Diff StatusPrev Diff Status (export)
11007/21/2017 00:00:00 +0000100unchangedunchanged
22007/21/2017 00:00:00 +00001010increasedunchanged
32007/31/2017 00:00:00 +0000155increasedincreased (5.0000)



NotesAdditional information
TagTags thar are assigned to respective rate
PolicyIndicated policy of the rate
StatusDefine a current rate status

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Configuring Mail Templates

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Templates Configuration SyntaxDescription

${invoice['c_dt']}

Invoice date

${invoice['type']}

Invoice type

${invoice['amount']}

Invoice total sum

${invoice['period_start']}

Invoice period start

${invoice['period_finish']}

Invoice period end

${invoice['due_date']}

Invoice due date

${invoice['no']}

Invoice number

${invoice['descr']}

Invoice comments

${invoice['tz']}

Invoice time zone

${invoice['state']}

Invoice state

${invoice['name']}

Invoiced client name

${client['currency']}

Сlient's currency

 


Configuration Syntax for Mail Template: Low Balance Notification

Templates Configuration SyntaxDescription
${client['balance_avail']}Client's available balance: live balance + credit

${client['currency']}

Сlient's currency

${client['alert_threshold']}

Notification for a client regardig reaching a balance limit

${client['alert_athreshold']}

Notification for an administrator regardig reaching a balance limit

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Configuration Syntax for Mail Template: Rates Notificator

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