CDR rating is the classification of CDRs and the assignment of one or more billing amounts to
a CDR. BillMax supports classification of CDRs via NPANXX tables and rated via per minute
amounts. In addition, BillMax supports both pre-classified (classification for USF purposes)
and pre-rated (rated for long distance amounts) CDRs.
BillMax separates CDRs into outbound and inbound CDRs. A CDR is considered outbound when the
source number or channel matches the Package or Service d01 field. A CDR is considered inbound
when the destination number or channel matches the Package or Service d01 field. Note that
from the BillMax perspective, a CDR may be both outbound and inbound.
BillMax classifies outbound CDRs as one of four types of calls:
- Plan Calls - "local" calls for which the sum of the minutes of the call is included for
price for a specified duration. A typical plan is so many minutes per month. If the caller
exceeds the specified Plan minutes, more billings may occur.
- Long Distance Calls - Any call that is not a Plan, N11 or Toll Free call.
- N11 Calls - (211, 311, ...) - N11 calls designated as such during CDR preprocessing.
Allows for non North America users of BillMax.
- Toll Free Calls - In North America, number where the area code begins with 800, 844,
855, 866, 877 and 888 - Toll Free calls designated as such during CDR preprocessing.
Allows for non North American users of BillMax. Any billings associated with Toll Free
calls such as connect fees are classified as interstate for USF purposes. Premium calls
(900,976) are classified as intrastate.
In addition, in the United States both Plan calls and Long Distance calls may have an
additional classification of International, Interstate and Intrastate. This may be used to
apply a Federal Universal Service Fund charge to the end customer.
Rate Decks
Rate Decks are used to determine whether an outbound CDR is a
Plan Call or a Long Distance call and what per minute billing should occur. If selected,
BillMax will use data from
http://www.localcallingguide.com/ to determine the local calling area for a particular number. If the
called number falls in the local calling area, then the CDR is considered a Plan Call. If data
from
http://www.localcallingguide.com/ is not
used or the call number is determined to be a Long Distance call, BillMax may consult a Rate
Deck if specified. If the billing for the called number in the second Rate Deck is 0, then the
call is considered a Plan Call, Otherwise it is considered a Long Distance call and is subject
to the billing in the Rate Deck and the Long Distance billing parameters.
Attention: If data from
http://www.localcallingguide.com/ is not used and no Rate Deck is specified, all calls are considered to
be N11, Toll Free and Plan calls. None are considered Long Distance.
Attention: If data from
http://www.localcallingguide.com/ is used the primary source search key is used for lookup and must be a
10 digit phone number. This does not imply that the 10 digit number be the d01 field in the
BillMax database. As an example, if the primary source search key is
8174467776, the secondary source search key is
BillMax and the d01 value in the BillMax database is
BillMax, then the CDR will have an association base on the
BillMax value but the look up in the data from
http://www.localcallingguide.com/ will be done
using
8174467776.
The Rate Deck specification for BillMax may be found here BillMax CDR Rate Deck.
BillMax supports the following billing models:
Plan Calls
BillMax supports the following billing parameters for Plan Calls:
- A limit on the number of minutes before extra billing occurs or an unlimited
plan.
- Optional inclusion of minutes from inbound calls in the total minutes for
billing/display.
- An optional connect fee for every completed outbound call
Long Distance Calls
BillMax supports the following billing parameters for
Long Distance Calls:
- A default rate for calls not found in Rate Decks.
- An option to include both outbound and inbound minutes in the Plan minutes
calculations.
- An optional connect fee for every completed outbound call.
N11 calls
BillMax supports the following billing parameters for N11 calls:
- Selection for each N11 number where it will be included in Plan minutes
calculations.
- A default rate.
- A default connect fee.
- Selection for each N11 number as to whether it will be billed the fee or rate. For
example, no billing for 911 calls may be desired.
Inbound Toll Free and Premium call
BillMax supports the following billing parameters for Toll Free/Premium calls using Plan
parameters:
- Billing for input minutes.
- Billing using other Plan parameters.
