Invoicing Engine

 

Invoicing benefits within SONAR

• Provides attractive fully-featured subscriber invoices via email (HTML, PDF), Web site or postage

• Supports local tax calculation 

• Provides service summary, usage summary, account summary 

• Provides detailed usage information - call by call 

• Provides subscriber payment information 

• Invoices are available for all services - pre/post paid and card services 

• Supports automatic invoice generation and delivery at any regular interval on a per account basis

 

Web Services Engine

Allows external systems to interact with SONAR in a machine to machine environment:

• Integration with other Operational Support Systems (OSS), i.e. CRM, billing, provisioning, customer support
• Useful for customer self-care web portals

 

Based on industry standard SOAP/XML protocol:

• Extremely efficient for web page presentation (XSLT)
• Provides security and encryption for all data (HTTPS)
• Many third party systems support XML, i.e. SAP, ORACLE
• Templates provided for all common functions

Rating Engine

Highly flexible and extremely powerful real-time rating engine

• Tested to 5,000 cps (20M BHCA) per server (2.4 GHz)
• Distributed cluster architecture for greater performance and redundancy

 

Generic transaction processing architecture

• Does not just rate phone calls, but any event based transaction
• Supports Symbio XML-Lite protocol for easy integration into any transaction generation system

 

Supports both 'off-line' and 'on-line' modes with the same functionality

• Supports time based rate functions
• Flag fall charges, Mid-call charges, Variable time rate, Zero rate and Call capping

 

Layered rate card definition makes service pricing easy to manage

• Rate card can have multiple layers
• Each layer can represent one category of call
• If one layer changes, all other layers are updated dynamically

 

Supports call categorisation

• Local, Mobile, National, International, Promotional or any user defined category