Distributor search

A distributor is an individual or a company that sells your services for a straight commission. When a distributor sells your prepaid service (e.g., activates a calling card) or refills the customer’s balance, they deliver the money to you minus their commission. The distributor’s balance is the amount of money they owe you. By engaging distributors, you expand your sales activities.

Use the Distributor search panel to find a specific distributor. By default, PortaBilling loads all distributors. To disable data autoload, click Settings  and clear the Autoload data option.

Specify one or more of the search criteria and click Apply filters. Click Default filters to reset the search criteria to their initial values. To refresh the search results, click Reload data.

Filter distributors by name and other fields, e.g., billing address, login, phone, etc. By default, the quick search is performed only by name.

To set the search through other fields, click Change right under the Quick search field and select the corresponding checkboxes. Once the options are selected, the changes are automatically saved and applied to the next searches.

By default, PortaBilling searches for distributors by their data that starts with your input. To change the search filter, click Search filter  and select another option:

• Exactly matches – PortaBilling filters distributors’ data that exactly match your input.
• Starts with – PortaBilling filters distributors’ data that start with your input.
• Contains – PortaBilling filters distributors’ data that contain your input anywhere in the content.
• Ends with – PortaBilling filters distributors’ data that end with your input.

Filter distributors by the currency they use.

• Select Any to display all distributors regardless of the currency they use.

• Select Currency name to display distributors who uses a particular currency.

Filter distributors by their type.

Filter distributors by customer class.

• Select Any to search among distributors for whom any customer class is assigned.

• Select Currency name to display distributors who have a particular customer class assigned.

• Select All distributors to display distributors who directly communicate with your company and those who only communicate with your resellers.

• Select Direct distributors to search among distributors who directly communicate with your company.

• Select Distributors of reseller to display distributors who only communicate with your resellers.

To obtain more precise results, click to open advanced search criteria.

Filter distributors by status:

• Select Any to search among distributors with any status.
• Select Any except terminated to display all distributors except those having the Permanently terminated status.
• Select Open to display distributors who can operate without any restrictions.
• Select Provisionally terminated to filter distributors who don’t have access to any operations but who can be reactivated.
• Select Permanently terminated to display distributors who have no access to any operations and can not be reactivated.
• Select Suspended to display distributors who currently do not have access to operations because of an overdue invoice.
• Select Exported to display distributors whose data has been transferred to a new PortaSwitch installation. For such distributors, service provisioning and billing is stopped in the source system.

Filter distributors by their representative. Representatives work on behalf of the company, selling services for a commission that is paid by the service provider.

Other search criteria in this section relate to the distributor contact information and are self-explanatory. You can also search distributors by the information defined in custom fields. Fill in the respective search criteria fields.