General configuration (Vendor)

On the General configuration panel you can change the vendor billing period and configure the offset balance with a customer. You can also adjust a vendor balance and configure vendor authorization and DID provisioning.

This defines how often the vendor bills you.

Choose the customer to offset the vendor's balance automatically. Use this option, when you receive traffic from and send traffic to one and the same company. This simplifies mutual settlement, which is when a company is represented in the system as both a vendor and a customer. You may only choose a retail customer that is defined with the same currency.

This indicates that this vendor and the referenced customer represent two sides of the same company. When the billing engine processes a call from this customer and calculates the routing, it automatically excludes this vendor from the routing list to prevent a possible routing loop (sending calls back to the originator).

Define the minimum amount to offset here.

Turn on the toggle to accumulate balance changes over a specific interval (by default, 5 seconds) before PortaBilling updates them in the database, reducing the frequency of updates. This option is useful only if you have vendors generating high transaction volumes, like large call centers or IoT customers with tens of thousands of IoT SIM cards.

To change the default period for the delay, go to the Configuration web server interface, and set a new value for the Rating.PendingBalanceUpdateIntervalVendor option.

This section provides access to the Authorization panel that allows you to configure vendor authorization parameters.

This section provides access to the DID provisioning panel that allows you to configure on-demand DID provisioning.