Chapter 3 The Tariscope program
3.11 Customers' accounts
3.11.3 Call re-rating
Sometimes there are situations when it is necessary to re-rate calls of one or all customers for the specific month. When re-rating is executed in Tariscope, all charges for calls (IP traffic) for the specific month are cleared, calls re-rating is executed and the calls costs are charged on customers' accounts.
If it is necessary to execute calls re-rating for the specific customer for a month, in the Accounts view, choose the required customer and choose month for which calls re-rating will be executed. On the toolbar of the view, in the Account actions list, select the Recharge month item. The Recharge all month view and the Action parameters window appears. An example of the Action parameters window is shown in Figure 3.11.13.
Figure 3.11.13
The window Parameters of action contains the following settings:
- Month list. By default, it displays month and year which were chosen in the Accounts view. If necessary you can select another month and year.
- Node list. By default, the list displays the communication node name which was chosen in the Accounts view. If you have several communication nodes and wish to add periodic services to another customer who belongs to this communication node, select the required communication node.
- Subscriber box. The box allows you to choose the required subscriber (customer) who should charge periodic services. For the choice of another subscriber click on the "..." button, located to the right of the Subscriber box. The Choose subscriber window appears. Choose the required subscriber and click OK in the window.
- Charge services checkbox. If the checkbox is selected, during re-rating, the cost of periodic services will be also cleared and recharged again.
- Use multithreading (experimental) checkbox. Check on the box to accelerate the process of charge.
Click OK.
After performance of charge the message of Action completed appears. Close the view and refresh the customer's account.
Also you can perform call re-rating for all customers. To do this, in the program menu, select Parse → Recalculate month. The Action parameters window appears as shown in Figure 3.11.13. The distinctive feature will be the fact that in the Subscriber box is displayed value of No filter. It means that this action will be applied to all subscribers (customers) of the specified communication node.
Click OK.
