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Broadband Internet Access Services
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1.
In the
Billing
section of Admin-Index, choose
Services
.
2.
Click on the Add button.
3.
Fill in the required information:
o
Name
– A short descriptive name for this service (it will be used
in the select menus and shown on customer self-care pages).
o
Service Type
– Select
Internet Access
.
o
Rating Base
– If you want to bill customers based on the time
they spend on the Internet, select session-time (seconds); if based
on the amount of data transferred, select one of the nine options,
depending on whether you want to count only uploaded data,
only downloaded data, or both. There are also three choices of
measurement units (B, kB and MB). A measurement unit defines
the smallest possible unit charged. However, it should not be too
small, as it may then be inconvenient to give price information
(e.g. if you charge $0.20 per megabyte, the price of one byte will
be $0.00000019).
o
Base Unit
– Change the field value if necessary.
o
Billing Unit
- Change the field reading if necessary. This will be
shown on statistics screens and on invoices.
o
Billing:Base Ratio
– If you changed the previous two fields,
also insert a new ratio here.
4.
Click
Save
.
5.
Repeat steps 2-4 if you need to create more services.
Create Nodes
This step is only required if you have not entered your NAS into the
system before. In this case, you must enter your NAS as a node.
PortaBilling® requires some key information about your network
equipment such as IP address, Node ID, Radius shared secret, etc.
