DID/MSISDN inventory

Click Upload to upload your DIDs from a .csv, .xls or .xlsx file into PortaBilling.

Prepare a .csv, .xls or .xlsx file with the following headers and fill in these fields:

Mandatory fields:

• Number – specify a phone number here.
• DID vendor batch – specify the name of the vendor batch this DID belongs to. Make sure you have already created the vendor batch with this name in PortaBilling.
• Activation fee – specify a one-time cost paid to a vendor for DID number activation.
• Periodic fee – specify a monthly amount charged by a vendor for the provisioned DID number.

Not mandatory fields:

• • Description – type a short description for a particular DID number.
  • Released date – the date on which this number was released from the customer it was previously assigned to. The released date must be earlier than the upload date and time. The format is: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
  • Free of charge – mark a DID number as provisioned free of charge. When a DID number is assigned to a customer or a reseller from this batch, no charges apply and no xDR is created.

• Country – specify the country that this number belongs to. The format is: two-letter country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2). Specify "--" for "Not applicable".
• Area – specify the area that this number belongs to.

Click Download to download phone numbers from the DID inventory. Use the downloaded file to update DID activation and periodic costs. You can upload it back to the DID inventory or use it as a tool for analysis.

In this window, you can configure automatic tax calculation for DID numbers’ charges via Avalara, SureTax, and GST taxation plug-ins. PortaBilling then includes the calculated tax amounts on customers’ invoices along with other taxes.

Calls to standard and toll-free DID numbers are charged differently (the calls to toll-free DID numbers are free of charge for the calling party). Thus, go to the Taxation section and add different internal tax transaction codes for standard and toll-free DID numbers on the Tax transaction codes panel.

First, map them to the plug-ins’ tax transaction codes.

Then go back to the DID inventory and specify those codes in the Activation tax transaction code and Usage tax transaction code fields for standard and toll-free DID numbers accordingly.

At the end of the billing period, the taxation plug-in(s) calculate taxes for DID numbers’ charges according to the tax transaction codes defined in the DID inventory.

Click Save to apply the configuration.

This tab leads you to a group of panels where you can view the list of currently available DID numbers, search for a particular DID number and create new DID numbers for testing purposes.

This tab leads you to the group of panels where you can manage vendor batches: to view, search and/or create new vendor batches.

This tab leads you to the group of panels where you can manage your DID pricing in the form of pricing batches: to view, search and/or create new pricing batches.

This tab leads you to the group of panels where you can view the list of DID groups already created, search for a particular DID group and/or create new DID groups.