Number translations that are added in VoIP Gateways section now are done before customer identification. Please be sure to check your existing translations and correct them if update will result in different translation behavior;
Calculator implementation was optimized, resulting in great calculation speed increase.
Clients and invoices management
Invoices — logging features added, which may come handy in discovering root of problem, if issue arises;
Accounts — removed uniqueness check for accounts with different protocols, now they are treated as different accounts.
Rate Tables — improved rates display, now summary details can be seen for current search query by uploaded rate sheet, added possibility to sort by effective date.
System and Tools
For Events Config we added a setting (in Configuration - Settings section), which specifies how much same type messages are sent in single e-mail. This can reduce events spam drastically.
Statistics and Reports
Profitability Report — was rehauled. Now managers are able to see correct profits, added possiblity to export report as file, added filtering per reseller company.
Routing module
Routing Plans — added Routing Groups criteria to advanced search;
Routing Plans — minor interface tweaks for better delivery.
DID Management — new functions added: Mass Edit, predefined DID status after import from file, added duplicates check, assigned DID's are cross-linked to respective client/account, few interface changes for better delivery;
Rates Notification — added possibility to define columns for Rate Notification file for clients and resellers;
Rates Generator — some visual interface improvements;
Taxes Profiles — some visual interface improvements and minor fixes;
Call Shops list was optimised.
VoIP Gateways Integrations
Created full integration for FreeSwitch, which includes RADIUS authorization and accounting along with SIP Redirect based Dynamic Routing. You can find more info in our Integration Manual;
Brekeke SIP Server collector was slightly modified. Now packets with “anonymous.invalid” for name are processed by “remote-party-id” value as name;
Aloe MVTS PRO collector was modified to include latest changes in MVTS PRO software. Now RADIUS reply includes “xpgk-ep-number” field, containing source number;
BETA – Genband C3 collector was added. This collector is still a work in progress, so future improvements can follow.
Nextone (Genband) collector — now supports Realms;
Numerous visual and functional bugfixes.
Clients and invoices management
Rework of client's properties page — interface is completely changed;
Customer Templates — added possibility to create customer template with predefined data, which can be used when adding new customer, to save great amount of time;
Prepaid and Postpaid modes change — these modes were removed completely due to inconsistent use. Now all customers are considered to work in Prepaid mode, meaning they will be deactivated when their available balance reaches 0 (credit amount is applicable). Note, that this is true only for RADIUS and SIP Redirect integration types;
Extra Charges in invoices — now if there were Extra Charges in invoices with relevant description text, that text will be visible in invoice itself.
System and Tools
Events Config got a setting which specifies how much same type messages are sent in single e-mail. This can reduce events spam drastically.
Statistics and Reports
Experimental feature — Profitability Report. Allows to get precise profits figures, including traffic, retail packages and custom charges.
Retail module
Payment Gateways — added support of Authorize.net and Moneybookers.com payment systems. Now customers can seamlessly pay through these payment gateways through standard VCS interface;
New Section — DID Management. Allows you to manage DID numbers, assign them to customers and properly bill them;
Improved Packages — now packages can include custom discounts for provided services, as well as more advanced billing modes: package billing cycle can be set to payment terms cycle and proportional billing of leftover days is available, also promotional activation and deactivation dates can be set now.
Currencies rework — great change to currency system, which fixes discrepancies if there were multiple currency rate recalculations;
Improved taxes management added — now it's possible to have custom tax profiles for different Resellers;
Some minor interface/graphical tweaks were introduced, to make work more comfortable;
Few annoying bugs were fixed.
Clients and invoices management
Notes field for each of client's accounts was added — to store additional definitive information when it is needed;
Improved Transactions section — transactions accounts added, for exact operation definition (for example, Bank or Cash or Paypal payment accounts etc);
Invoices — custom items were removed. Now you can get custom items in invoice by creating a transaction payment for account “Extra Charges”;
Mutual Settlements is renamed into Balance Report and few improvements were introduced into this section's functionality;
Invoices Templates fix — adding new template will not close the window now;
Resellers now also have a field for shorter system name, to make work more comfortable.
System and Tools
Now Factors Watcher provides much more details about it's work in Events Log section.
Rates Management module
Improved Rates Notificator — now it is possible to automatically send a notification in a given number of days (7 days in advance for example);
Rates Generator tool now provides ability to specify which rows you would like to have when doing “Action: export to file”;
Improved Rates Import procedure — now it's possible to see increased/decreased rates in regards to last import;
Improved Rates Export procedure — now if code deck is selected, only codes in code deck will be exported;
Now it's possible to undo any performed rates import.
RADIUS related features
Improved Active Calls section — now it is possible to group calls by specified criteria or hide unnecessary details if needed.
Routing module
Routing Analysis now will pick customer's currency when displaying a list of possible routes.
Routing Analysis now will include Orig Routing Groups permissions per customer's account, if multiple accounts query is executed.
Retail module
Improved Packages — now customers are able to see a number of minutes left in packages assigned to them;
Customer Panel now also includes Balance Report with full functionality to browse all issued invoices and performed payment transactions.
Orig-Term report — now it's possible to get correct chain reports in multi-reseller schemes.
Rates Management module
Rates Generator — added new optimization option. Now you can optimize your resulting pricelist so all codes within same code name will have identical prices.
Invoices Templates section added — this allows you to build customized invoice templates;
Reports to e-mail section added — this allows you to get automated statistical reports to e-mail;
Transactions — now you can import payment lists;
Minor design tweaks.
Statistics and Reports
Extended statistics — now displays PDD and SCD quality parameters;
Mutual Settlements — now displays credit and debit columns separately.
Retail module
New feature — Rate Notifications. Now customers can receive automatic rates change notifications upon actual update of their rates;
New feature — Billing by access numbers. Now you can apply extra rates for specified Orig groups;
Rates Generator — multiple improvements were made. Now provides lots of additional functions while generating price lists;
Payment Gateways — implemented brute-force protection while recharging balance;
Calling Cards — single calling card details are now viewable in statistics.
Routing module
New feature — Routing by SRC numbers. Now it's possible to allow routing only for specific origination routing group or SRC number;
Routing Plans — now it's possible to import or export a list of routing rules.
System
VoIP Gateways — improved Nextone integration, now Dynamic Routing feature in supported for Nextone switches (ver. 4.0);
Version 3.2.1
Core
RADIUS — implementation rewritten from scratch, now utilizes Redis database, stability and performance drastically increased;
RADIUS — fixed some rare crashes and overflow issues;
General — numerous optimizations of system real-time processes.
Retail
Call Shops — is more user-friendly. Call Shop can be reactivated upon finalize, thus decreasing clicking;
Packages — advanced search functions added.
Statistics and Reports
Fixed some rare issues with cross-links to Orig-Term and CDRs List not always providing correct data.
Routing
Routing Plans — capacity limitation now correctly works for limits set by code name or code mask (for example, 380*);
Routing Plans — added possibility to route to specified vendor's account, and not all of them at once;
General — routing plans and resellers interconnection is much more flexible now due to changes in Resellers;
General — routing can be performed if customer doesn't have routing plan assigned, but his Reseller owner has.
Reselling
Resellers — removed agents, added managers;
Resellers — added possibility to share resources between managers of a single reseller;
Resellers — lessened the limitations for unique names within system to unique-per-reseller (for example, now two different resellers each can have rate table with same name);
Resellers — reseller's logo is automatically uploaded to top left corner of customer's panel.
System
VoIP Gateways — improved Cisco collector, now covers more variations of Cisco gateways;
Factors Watcher — blocking can be performed per specified account.
Version 3.2.0
Rate Tables
Rate Tables Generator — generates new rate tables easily with a set of source rate tables and rules;
Rate Table by Accounts — set separate rate tables for separate clients’ accounts, separate different types of traffic;
Improved Import — improved codes formats parsing and importing routines;
Errors Analysis — extended output of errors found in the imported file.
Retail
Packages and Subscriptions — create and manage clients’ packages, set up a monthly minutes limit, subscription fee, etc;
Calling Cards — now you can top up existing calling card with any payment gateway of the system.
Statistics and Reports
Mutual Settlements — added more flexible grouping options;
Mutual Settlements — added export to Excel option;
Summary and Orig-Term Reports — added filtering by statistic parameters;
Mutual Settlements — added more flexible grouping options;
Summary Report — added grouping by disconnect cause, so you can easily analyse protocol and vendors problems;
Added floating headers for long reports for easier reading;
Added cross-links between reports for easier tracking.
Routing
Added possibility to set maximum call duration limit for post-paid clients;
Added special routing plan for forced routing and testing of routes provided by different vendors;
Added possibility to set random values on number translation during routing.
Reselling
Groups — added possibility to separate manage group entities for each reseller;
Resellers — Improved output of resellers section, now it is much more clear.
System
Files Downloader — added FTP protocol support for CDR files download;
Mail Sender — added SSL/TLS protocol for all mail sending.
Version 3.1.5
General
Improved stability and performance for RADIUS and SIP Servers.
Routing
Routing Plans - added usage limitation by reseller;
Routing Plans - added settings to force/limit routing in reseller;
Routing Plans - added default profit margin;
Routing Plans - improved control of static routes;
Routing Plans - added cloning of plans;
Routing Plans - added number length control.
Clients
Accounts - added custom port for routing
Rate Tables
Improved date / time formats import.
Retail
Calling Cards - added maintenanace and activation fees;
Callshops - improved control and flexibility.
Tools
Rates Analysis - improved performace;
Rates Analysis - added control of old rates.
Version 3.1.2
General
Fixed some rare stability issues;
Numerous typos fixes;
Updated Russian localization to be more precise and fixed some inconveniences in user interface;
Top-Up cards section allows you to create your own payment cards, that can be used to recharge customer's balance.
Routing
Fixed rare bug in Routing Plans that caused BillBery to hang-up;
Updated Routing Analysis to show more precise routing picture.
Retail
Modified Calling Cards module a little - fixed some minor typos in code, now overall module performance is more efficient.
Version 3.1
General
Minor improvements and bugfixes;
Added new functionality: Payment Gateways and Top-Up cards sections were added;
Payment Gateways section allows customers to perform payments through third-party payment gateways (for example, PayPal);
Top-Up cards section allows you to create your own payment cards, that can be used to recharge customer's balance.
Routing
Fully changed routing logic: now static routes can be mixed with dynamic ones and flexible code matches are available on routing;
Added Routing Plans.
Clients management
Now it's possible to specify protocol (H323 or SIP) for client's account.
Reports
Added possibility to remove unneeded columns from reports, to save screen space.
Version 3.0.5
General
A major addition: a callshop module;
Interface rearrangement: all sections were rearranged for better display of their functions;
Added Targets Lists section;
Added a Callback module;
AJAX-based search engine added;
Update to MNP support: now integration with dynamic MNP databases is possible;
Added full support for Squire MGC switches;
Get Support section added: create a trouble ticket within web-interface.
Reports
Updated graphical charts. More chart types are now available.
Invoicing
Now invoice tracking by due date is possible;
Version 3.0
General
A major addition: a callshop module;
Application Server introduced;
Improved security: an IP-address allowance for users was added;
XML-RPC API support;
New, improved and even more efficient web-interface was implemented;
Now you can create invoices with attached CDR-files to them. Also available for autoinvoicing!
Files Downloader was improved: no need for write permissions to your CDR-files storage folders. This leads to easier integration and more secure CDR-files procession;
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