Virtual subscribers
Tariscope that is a call accounting and billing system contains a feature that is named 'virtual subscribers'. What is it and for which purposes it can be used?
"Virtual subscribers" are pseudo-subscribers, which can be assigned to a route (a group of lines) or an IP gateway connecting your PBX with some communication operator.
Tariscope performs a call rating only if calls were made from or to a subscriber whose data are in the Tariscope database. In the case of transit calls, as a rule, there are no such subscribers and, accordingly, such calls are not rated. But if you still need to rate them, the virtual subscriber will come in handy. The entire cost of calls passing through a route or gateway will be charged on the subscriber and transit calls will also be charged.
Consider a different situation. For example, the PBX has 3 routes, each of which is connected to various telecom provides. And you want to know at any moment: how many calls and what call types passed on a route, how much they cost, what kind of telephone traffic prevails: incoming or outgoing, etc. Answers to such questions can be relevant both for corporate users who use the Tariscope Enterprise edition and for telecom providers who use the Tariscope Provider edition. This information can be obtained, for example, from a report on routes. But again, if transit calls pass through the routes, then these calls will not be rated without virtual subscribers, and the report will contain data that will not include the cost of transit calls. The use of virtual subscribers is the most correct way to solve such a task.
The feature of "virtual subscribers" can be especially actual for transit telecom operators or telecommunication operators offering services of a virtual PBX. Because Tariscope allows users simultaneous calculate the cost of calls at two different rates, you can immediately get the cost of calls that subscribers must pay and the cost at which it is necessary to carry out mutual settlements with another telecom operator.
Each license of Tariscope Enterprise and Tariscope Provider includes 3 virtual subscribers. Tariscope user can use them at his own discretion, both for ordinary subscribers and for virtual subscribers. If there is a need to create more than 3 virtual subscribers, then they need to be purchased additionally.
How to create a virtual subscriber, see the article.
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