Rates Analysis 2.0

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Rates Analysis Form

Rates Analysis is an advanced feature of the JeraSoft Billing Rates Management Module. It allows you to analyze and compare rates within the JeraSoft Billing web interface without the usage of any third-party software.

Screenshot: Rates Analysis section

Creating a New Analysis Report

To analyze and compare different rates, you need to fill in the form with the next parameters:

Information Block	Field Description
Filters	On the Filters menu, select the required parameters for the report. To cancel any filter, click on the delete icon next to the filter. You can start a quick search by typing filters' names in the field at the top of a drop-down menu with filters.
	Service	Select a service for rates analysis. Default is calls
	Dst Code	Specify a code of the needed destination
	Dst Code Name	Define a code name of the desired destination
	Clients	Indicate termination clients for analysis
	Accounts	Indicate termination accounts for analysis
	Rate Table	Define rate tables for analysis
	Additional Filters
	Master Source
	Master - Table	Specify a rate table that all other rates will be compared to
	Master - Client	Specify an origination client that all other rates will be compared to
	Master - Account	Specify an origination account that all other rates will be compared to
	Rate Filters
	Dst Code Country	Enter the name of the respective country
	Rate Tags	Indicate a tag, which relates to specific rates
	Extras
	Actual on	Define the date, when the rates should be effective on Info Applies both to Effective Date and Time Profile.
	Volume Interval	Specify the number of days of statistics that would be taken for analysis
Output	This information block contains settings of the report output data. Click the plus icon next to Columns and select the required columns to add them to the Output information block. Also, you can cancel any chosen item.
	Accessible columns in the report
	The list of additional columns include: Sources Volume - calculated based on Summary Report. By default - last 7 days. You can alter this value by specifying a Volume Interval filter. Sources Quality - calculated based on Summary Report. Quality parameters for traffic - ASR and ACD - are available per row. Master Volume - calculated based on Orig-Term report. By default - last 7 days. You can alter this value by specifying a Volume Interval filter. Master Profit - calculated based on Orig-Term report. The relative and absolute Profit is displayed per destination. Master Routes - shows how many accepted routs there are according to the Routing Plan on the selected master entity. When clicked, prompts you to the Routing Analysis for the respective case. Note A master filter must be selected for any master-related output columns.
	Order by	Select parameters to sort already grouped data in columns. Here you can sort data from highest to lowest values (or vice versa) and select different values
	Type	Choose a format of the report from a drop-down list: *Web* *CSV* *Excel XLSx* If CSV or Excel XLSx type has been selected, an additional Send to field will be displayed. In this field, you can specify emails of the clients, to which the current report in the selected format will be sent.
	Currency	Specify the currency of the report. All values will be automatically converted to the specified currency in the report
	Dst Code Deck	Select a code deck from a drop-down list. All codes in the following report will be presented according to the specified code deck Attention This field is not mandatory by default. However, it is required if you have any destination name-related filters and/or Group by Code Name.
	Group by	Select a grouping option from the following list: *Dst Code* - aggregation by default output *Dst Code Name* - grouping by rate rows with the same names and rates for all codes in each rate table This option is intended to simplify grouping, the system will automatically group data in specified columns. If certain termination entities will have different prices within the same Code Name, the rows will be displayed separately.

After clicking the Query button, the system will form a list of rates with prices for each destination. The appeal of rates is visualized as a heat map for convenience. The darker the red - the least profitable, the brighter the green - the more, respectively.

Screenshot: Rates Analysis section output

By clicking the Info icon above the report on the right, the user's name and time/date, when a report was generated, will be displayed in a pop-up window.

Screenshot: Info icon

Creating a New Template

Also, you can create a template and save specified parameters by clicking the Save Query button. A pop-up window with settings will appear, where you need to fill out the following form:

Screenshot: New Template form

Section	Description
Rates Analysis	Here you can specify parameters for the template that will be used while running reports
	Title	Specify a name of the template
	Reseller	Indicate a Reseller for the report template
	Visibility	It allows controlling the visibility of respective reports templates. You can set up whether you want to keep templates private or leave them visible for users under a specified Reseller. To enable this option, select one parameter from the drop-down list: *Public -* available for users according to the settings of the Reseller field. Private - accessible strictly for the creator.
Watch	This tool allows to generate the report automatically at the appropriate time and send the results to the list of emails. Attention Please note that this tool is not available for *Web* output type, only for CSV/Excel XLS/Excel XLSx
	Recipients	Specify recipients. You can indicate your own email, or other users of the system, or even 3rd parties
	Run Time	Indicate an appropriate time to generate a report automatically, it could be several times, for example, *10:00, 12:00, 18:00*
	Days of Week	Indicate days of the week to generate a report automatically. For example, you can run a report only on Monday or each day of the week.
Report Query	Here you need to check filters and the output type. These values will be pre-selected by default according to the formed rate analysis query.

After a template has been created, a new Load Query button will be added to the section. By clicking it, you can select report settings to be filled in from a list of templates for rates analysis.

Export generated report

You can export report data either in .xlsx file or .csv that would contain currently presented data. Click the Export to XLSx or Export to CSV button above the report output to download a file of the respective format.

Sharing a Report

Each time you get a report output, the system generates a unique link in the format of "/view?id=<uniq-string>". It allows sharing data between the users, even if they belong to different resellers (the feature works similarly to Share by Link in Google Drive).

The link refers to the report data valid for a specific moment.

Example: When you send a link to a report, you ensure the recipient would see the same data as you do. If you change data in the system (for example, perform rerating), the previously copied link to the report will display data valid for the moment of generation (even though the actual data is now different).

You can also view the additional information about the generated report by hovering over the Info icon, which is located under the Output section:

Title	Description
Generated by	Indicates the Role of the user who generated a report and specifies a generation time
Duration	Time spent to generate a report

Screenshot: Rates Analysis Info icon