Carrier tariffs are the rates of the providers offering the VoIP services. You can upload and manage provider rate tables from here. The Carrier tariffs are used for the cost of the calls.
Please note that you should create your carriers and carrier endpoints before creating the tariffs.
1. Create Tariffs
Routing -> Tariffs -> Add tariff
Enter the tariff name and select the carrier from the drop down menu. Choose the tariff start and end date from the calendar and select the “Active” field if the tariff will be used.
2. Add Rates
There are three ways to add rates – manually through the interface, by uploading a file or by using already created routing tariff.
Routing > Tariffs >View Rates > Add rate
The destination is the name of the country (free text, e.g. UK – London). If new prefix is added the system will add it automatically to Destination List (Settings » Destinations), where the name of every prefix can be changed later.
The prefix is the E164 compliant area code (country code or country + area code, e.g. “3592”).
The initial interval is the duration of the first billing interval (in seconds, e.g. “60”).
The initial interval minute rate is the per-minute rate during the first billing interval (decimal number, e.g. 0.1250).
The increment interval is the duration of each sequential increment interval (in seconds, e.g. “30”).
The increment interval minute rate is the per-minute rate during each sequential increment interval (decimal number, e.g. 0.0950).
The connect fee is a one-time charge applied at call connect (decimal number, e.g. 0.0500).
The disconnect surcharge is a one-time charge applied at call disconnect (percent of total call charge, e.g. 20).
Please note that after you press the “Submit” button the rate is added into the system. After adding all rates, in order to activate them you should press the “Provision Carrier Tariffs” button in the provision rates menu.
Please note that when you go to provision rates menu the system will display a message that will show you whether there are items that need to be provisioned.
Routing -> Tariffs -> Selected Tariff -> Manage Rates
Automatically rates can be added to tariffs using the Manage Routes menu.
There are two options:
- Upload rates from a file
- Manage rates using routing tariff
Upload Rates from a File
Using “Upload Rates” option the user can upload rates from an already prepared .csv file.
Browse to select the file which will be uploaded. Select “Delete All Existing” if you want to delete all current rates and replace everything with the new ones. Select “Append to Existing” to add only the new area codes or to update only the rates of existing codes from the file.
If you want to change the rates of existing area codes you can export the full .csv file, change the rates that need to be updated, and upload the .csv with marked “Delete All Existing”. Another way is to create a file with the codes and rates which were changed and upload the file using “Append to existing” – this will update the codes already existing in the current tariff and will add the new codes and rates if any.
Manage Rates using Routing Tariff
Using Routing Tariff provides the option to add rates in a tariff using all rates from another routing tariff. Thus the user links the new tariff to already existing one in the system. Also the user has an option to filter this tariff by Destination Group.
For example the new Tariff can contain only USA codes and rates from the linked tariff. This way when you update the main tariff you can easily update the new Tariff using the Synch Rates button. In the Routing>Tariffs grid there is a flag if the rates are not synchronized.
Rates can be deleted and updated manually from View Rates grid, but only one rate is managed at a time.
Please note that all tariffs are taken and used from the system in base currency.