Calling Cards

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Section overview

This section represents built-in calling cards generator that allows you to create or change cards series for prepaid customers. Each generated card is considered a billing client, so a customer can perform calls, log in to his сlient panel to browse statistics and other relevant information.

Screenshot: Calling Cards section main window

Column	Description
Status	A name that describes current cards series
		Indicates that cards series is active
		Indicates that cards series is stopped
		Indicates that cards series is deleted
Number of Series \| Name of Series	A code of cards series and its name (if indicated). This code will prepend serial number (only numeric, up to 100,000,000)
Balance	Cards balance value within current series
Qty	Quantity of cards within a series
Reseller	Name of reseller, who owns cards series
Rate Table	Rate table, applied to respective cards series
Act. Fee	Price of cards series activation fee
Maint. Fee	Fixed charge for activated cards within series

Advanced Search

In the top right corner of the section above the table, the Advanced Search drop-down menu is located. By clicking on red downwards arrow icon (calling cards in the section are filtered by Active status and All resellers by default), the following drop-down menu is displayed:

Screenshot: Advanced Search drop-down menu

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

Creating Card Series

To create card series, press New Cards Series button and a new window with settings will pop-up:

Screenshot: Generate cards series window

Field	Description
Series Name	Indicate a name for a cards series
Series Number	Define a code of cards series. This code will prepend serial number (only numeric, up to 100 000 000). For example, if the Series Number is 45, cards number will start with 45: *45-001122333, 45-001122334* and so on.
Balance	Specify cards balance value within current series
Quantity	Set number of calling cards within current series
PIN length	Specify a PIN-code length for current calling cards series (it can be no less than 8 digits)
Status	Define an initial status of created calling cards within series. Can be changed later in cards series settings
Control Panel checkbox	Defines whether calling cards users can login to their control panels or not. If enabled, user can log in to control panel by using card serial number as login and PIN-code as password
*Notes*	Indicate additional information regarding cards series (optional)
*Rate Table*	Define a rate table for all cards within a series. This field is mandatory
Tax Profile	Select a respective tax profile that will be used for billing settings
Routing Plan	Select a routing plan for current cards series
Activation Fee	Enter activation fee in this field (if necessary)
Maintenance Fee	Define a charged fee each X hours for all activated cards
Expire date	Current calling cards series will be expired on specified date
Expire period	When specified number of days pass, starting from activation date, current calling cards series will be expired

After specifying all necessary fields, press OK and a new cards series will be created.

Calling Cards Series Properties

In order to open series properties, click on the Series Number and you will be displayed a table of calling cards with the following columns:

Screenshot: Cards List tab

Column	Description
Status	Status of a card within current series. There are 4 possible statuses: activated, pending, expired, used
Number	Number of a card within current series
Balance	Balance of respective calling card
PIN	Respective calling card PIN-number

You can export whole card series to .xls file by clicking on the Download XLS icon (see screenshot above).
You can use the Advanced Search drop-down menu to find a card by clicking on blue downwards arrow icon in the right-hand corner of the page (see screenshot above).

To change parameters previously entered while creating series, please open the Edit Cards Series tab.

Screenshot: Edit Cards Series tab

Attention

Calling Cards feature works only via RADIUS-protocol, so to make use of it, you need to have RADIUS enabled. Also, you would like to use a specific platform that is able to handle calling card series authorization, for example, Mera IP Centrex or Quintum Tenor DX (class 5 switch).