Termination-Vendor Relationship Configuration

Termination-Vendor Relationship Configuration

A Relationship is a network configuration between your company and your customers or vendors. By creating a Relationship, you will set up the routing logic and rates that enable you to capitalize on the phone calls made on your network.


A Termination-Vendor configuration will enable you to send traffic whose termination point is a Vendor (traffic originates with you and terminates at the Vendor).


Relationship Overview


A Relationship has multiple components which must be configured appropriately. This document will explain how to set up all Relationships components for a Termination-Vendor configuration.

Here is a high level description of each Relationship component:

  • Relationship Info: basic information about the Relationship such as Name and Contacts

  • Trunk Group: a collection of associated Trunks which can be managed through a single dashboard. Each trunk describes the end-to-end connectivity of your network

  • Rating: the model for charging the customer's usage

  • Routing: the traffic routing configuration, containing filters and routing rules

  • Balance: credit and debit notifications and alerts for customers

  • Invoicing: invoice generation

  • Portals: generating login credentials for users with specific permissions

  • Agents: independent external contacts which can refer new customers for your business in exchange for a commission

  • Logs: history of all changes made to the Relationship



Relationship Dashboard


The Relationship Dashboard will give you a summary of all currently configured Relationships.


This page allows you to:
  1. Create a new Relationship

  2. Modify an existing Relationship

  3. Export all Relationship entries as a .csv file

  4. Activate and Deactivate Relationships

  5. Delete Relationships







Create or Modify a Relationship 

Relationship Detail Strip (modify only)

Relationship > Modify


Whenever you Modify a Relationship, you will notice the menu featured in the image below on every tab of the Relationship. It will outline basic information about the Relationship as a reference when modifying the configuration.

  • Relationship Name

  • Status: enabled or disabled

  • Last Modified: date the Relationship was last modified

  • Billing Cycle: associated billing cycle

  • Last Invoiced: date for the last invoice created

  • Account Number

  • Current Balance: amount of credit or outstanding charges

  • Modifier: last user who modified the Relationship

  • Trunk Groups: the number of Trunk Groups configured for this Relationship







Relationship Info

Relationship > Create/Modify 


Contains basic information about the Relationship which act as identifiers. It is split in two sections: Relationship Information (alongside Address and Phone) on the left, and Relationships contacts on the right.


Relationship Information

Relationship > Create/Modify > Relationship Info


This page allows for configuration of basic information about the Relationship. The information here is fed into other functions such as Invoices, Trunks and Billing.

  1. Select a logo for the Relationship - This will be displayed on invoices.

  2. Toggle Send Trunk Group Notification - This will send notifications any time there is a change made to any Trunk to any contacts of the Type ‘Technical’.

  3. Relationship Name - This is the main identifier of the Relationship.

  4. Website - This will be displayed on invoices and notifications.

  5. Account ID

  6. Time Zone - this is used for calculating billing cycles and logging actions.







Address & Phone Information

Relationship > Create/Modify > Relationship Info


The Address and Phone information is used to generate invoices for your customers and vendors.







Relationship Contacts

Relationship > Create/Modify > Relationship Info


Contacts are entries which hold your customer or vendor details. In this section you can select the number of Contacts displayed per page, search for a Contact by keyword or:

  1. Create a new Contact

  2. Export contacts as a .csv file

  3. Delete Contacts







Create a Relationship Contact

Relationship > Create/Modify > Relationship Info > Relationship Contacts


Contacts are designated to receive notifications and emails regarding specific aspects of Perimeter.


If you do not have contacts set up, you will not be able to send notifications or other emails to your customers or vendors. 


To create a new contact, you will need to complete the following fields:

  • Contact Type: 

    • NOC - These contacts will receive notifications whenever there is a change made to a Trunk or Trunk Group.

    • Billing - Will receive invoices produced by the platform.

    • Sales - These contacts are known as ‘agents’ and will receive emails containing details about their commissions.

    • Balance - Will receive emails with balance limit warning and outstanding payments.

    • Rate - Will receive list of rates associated with specific Trunk configurations.

  • Email Address: This is the email address where the person will be contacted

  • Name: Name of the Contact

  • IM Address: Instant Messenger address such as Skype

  • Phone number: Mobile or Landline contact number






Export Relationship Contacts

Relationship > Create/Modify > Relationship Info > Relationship Contacts


  1. In the Relationship Contact section, click on Export 

  2. You will begin downloading a .csv containing the Relationship Contact details





Trunk Group


Configuring Trunks will describe the end-to-end connectivity for your network. You can set up multiple Trunks and manage them as a single entity. Each Trunk Group will need to have a defined Direction (termination/origination) and Relationship (vendor/customer). This section will describe a Termination-Vendor trunk group configuration.

Zones


Zones are clusters of IPs grouped together within a location. They can be useful for networks with multiple data centers or those who need to split customers based on IP(s) for cross connect. Zones allow to split Trunk Groups per zone and Location and isolate them. Please reach out to your account manager for more info on zones and how it can be installed on your instance.

Trunk Group Dashboard

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group


In the Dashboard, you can select the number of Trunk Groups displayed per page, search for a Trunk Group by keyword or:

  1. Assign Routeplan to the Trunk Group

  2. Assign Rate Deck to the Trunk Group

  3. Modify a Trunk Group

  4. Create a new Trunk Group

  5. Export Trunk Groups as a .csv

  6. Activate/Deactivate Trunk Group

  7. Delete Trunk Group





Assign Ratedeck

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group


Rate Decks contain the pricing models used for calls depending on the geographical/geopolitical location of the origination and termination devices. Without assigning a Rate Deck to a Trunk Group, Perimeter will not be able to charge your customers and vendors for the network usage.


You need to select a specific Rate Deck for each type of call in order for the correct rating to be applied to each type of call.


Depending on the type of call that you are configuring, you can assign a Rate Deck as follows:

  1. Select a Trunk Group from the list in the Dashboard by clicking on the any column of the list item (except for the name column)

  2. Click on Assign Ratedeck

  3. In the pop-up window, select a Routeplan from the drop-down menu and press Assign

  4. After receiving a message saying ‘Assigned Successfully’, you can close the pop-up Window


To unassign a Rate Deck:

  1. Select a Trunk Group from the list in the Dashboard by clicking on the 2nd column of the list item

  2. Click on Assign Rate Deck

  3. In the pop-up window, click on the ‘-’ button on the right of the drop-down menu

  4. After receiving a message saying ‘Unassigned Successfully’, you can close the pop-up Window



Create/Modify a Trunk Group

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group


This section will describe every field of creating or modifying a Trunk Group. If you are interested in setting up a specific Trunk Group configuration for Wholesale or DID, click here.


Trunk Group Basic Information

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Create/Modify


In this section you will need to provide core information about Trunks such as:

  1. Name

  2. Direction: Termination: you are sending traffic to someone, either a Vendor or Customer. A Termination-Vendor configuration would be that you are sending and traffic whose termination point is a vendor. (traffic originates at you and terminates at the Vendor)

  3. Relationship: Vendor

  4. Enable NAT: NAT helps improve security and decrease the number of IP addresses an organization needs.

  5. Ext. Name: 

  6. Copy

  7. Tech prefix: May be assigned to an originating or terminating Trunk Group to differentiate it or to provide an added level of security. We always recommend that you set a Tech Prefix on an Originating trunk group, even if you don't plan on having multiple originating Trunk Groups. 




Limit Options:

  1. Ports: Number of ports that you want to assign to the Trunk Group.

  2. CPS: The number of calls which can be pre-selected. We recommend a default ratio for Ports:CPS of 10:1

  3. Max PDD: Maximum delay between the time the call is dialed until it the caller hears ringing

  4. Max Call Duration: Calls which exceed this duration will be terminated

  5. Capacity Group: enables the creation of a group based on Port/CPS limit that can be assigned to multiple trunk groups and count their individual usage towards the group limits.  For example, in order to use 500 ports in the capacity group, then you can either NOT set a limit on TG and let the capacity group limit the ports (i.e. anything up to 500 on either or both) OR set a higher limit like 250 to allow each trunk group to have a limit.

  6. B-Timer: An extension of PDD and designed to work as a smaller subset timer to roll over to the next Trunk or Trunk Group if no response is received from the vendor. B-timer is activated when INVITE is sent to the outgoing Trunk and if no 100 Trying is received within allocated time it will expire and roll over to the next Trunk or Trunk Group available. The B-timer value can be between 1-10 and must always be smaller than PDD value. The default value for B-timer is empty which means it will not be considered unless integer value between 1 to 10 is set for it.




Call Extension:

  • Off

  • Always On: Provide the Minimum Duration

  • Intelligent Extension: Provide the Duration Threshold and Minimum Duration


Additional options: 
  1. Send NPDI:  This tells downline carriers that you have LRN dipped the call. (for US calls only)

  2. Send E. 164: By default calls are normalized in our system to not include a “+” in front of outbound numbers. Some carriers require a "+" in the from/to/rpid/ruri SIP headers to comply with specific routing rules. This will prepend the "+" before sending the calls out and will not duplicate a "+" if the inbound call comes with a "+" already.

  3. Trunk Monitoring: A feature that checks to see if the trunks are alive and automatically adds/removing IP(s) based on their state. Perimeter checks through option pings every 10 seconds so you must also accept option pings if you enable Trunk Monitoring

  4. Time Limit of Day: Limits calls between specific hours in the day.

  5. Preserve Caller ID: The CallerID part of the INVITE  is stripped by default from the FROM field. If you enable Preserve Caller ID, then it will not be stripped.

  6. Stop Route Advance on 180/183 Failure

  7. Enable Triggers - If you enable triggers, you can receive messages when certain thresholds are reached. For example, if the trunk group reaches 10,000 attempts an email will be sent to the contact selected.

  8. Bursting Threshold- Bursting Threshold is a soft limit that can be specified on ports usage for elasticity purposes. Bursting Ports limit is used to generate elasticity files which specifies when a TG went over the threshold on any given day. The report can be requested on a monthly basis from support.

 



Add Trunks 

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Create/Modify


  • Note: Only 1 [IP, Port, and Protocol] configuration can be added against 1 Origination Trunk and 1 Termination trunk

  • You can reuse the same [IP, Port, and Protocol] configuration only if you add a Tech Prefix for the other Trunk Groups. More information about Tech Prefixes can be found here.


To add a Trunk, you will need to provide the following:

  1. Trunk Type: 

    • IP address: provide IP Address and Port

or

    • Registration: Provide Username and Password

  1. Protocol: UDP/TCP/TLS

  2. Switch IP: You will need to give the Switch IP to your customers and vendors in order to run traffic through the trunk. Only one IP is necessary for both Termination Vendors and Customers. This IP is located at the bottom of the ADD trunk section. You can also find your Switch IP and your Media IPs in the Settings Tab, under General Settings.


After setting up your configuration, press Create




All the trunks defined will appear under the Trunks section. 



Trunks Dashboard

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Create/Modify


This section enables you to:

  1. Select the Hunting Mode

    1. Load Balance

    2. Failover 

    3. Weighted

  2. Delete the Trunk




Hunting Mode

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Create/Modify


Line hunting is the method of distributing phone calls from a single telephone number to a group of several phone lines. Specifically, it refers to the process or algorithm used to select which line will receive the call.


You can choose between 3 modes:
  • Load Balance: Improves the distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources.

  • Failover: Switching to a redundant or standby computer server, system, hardware component or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active application, server, system, hardware component, or network.

  • Weighted: Calls are distributed according to a configurable weight.



Media Handling

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Create/Modify


There are 4 settings for handling media content:

  • Filtering: This setting allows you to specify which codecs are allowed on this trunk group. Note: All codecs are passed through by default.

  • Anchoring: This setting allows you to anchor (proxy) the media through the Peeredge Platform. This feature is useful for media topology hiding or going through firewalls. Note: The new Peeredge supports on-demand transcoding for media anchored calls. If the SBC determines that there is not a suitable codec negotiation on anchored calls, the system will automatically negotiate the suitable originating and terminating codec and transcode the session. 

  • Dynamic Transcoding: This setting allows for automatic switching to a different format or bitrate without compromising on the original quality.

  • Secure RTP: Provides message authentication and integrity, encryption and replay attack protection to the RTP data.





Signaling Manipulation

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Create/Modify


This section will enable you to set up a rule to find and replace a string in a packet with anything of your choice. This is achieved using Regular Expressions.


To create a manipulation expression provide:

  1. Header

    1. ANI

    2. DNIS

    3. SIP Code

    4. IP

  2. Search: The section of a string to be replaced.

  3. Replace: What to replace the searched section with.

  4. Press Create



Once you add a rule, it will be displayed in the list below:





Route Advance Logic

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Create/Modify


Given a list of HTTP status codes, you can select set up routing based on the responses received.
Route Advance Logic converts all codes mentioned in the regex to a 503. If you remove a code from the regex, as well as UNchecking “normalize sip code” in the trunk group settings, you will return that code back to the customer.

Find out more about Regular Expressions here.




Triggers

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Create/Modify


Note: In the Trunk Group Basic Information section, you must have Enable Triggers checked for this menu to be displayed.

This feature allows users to sample up to 5 minutes of data for all performance metrics available. Triggers can be stacked on top of each other and multiple triggers can be set for the same metric.


To create a trigger you must provide: 

  1. Name

  2. Type

    1. Attempts

    2. Completions

    3. Minutes

    4. ASR

    5. ALOC

    6. Revenue

    7. Cost

    8. Profit

    9. Margin

    10. PPM

    11. MOS

    12. SDR

    13. NEPR

    14. Ports

    15. CPS

  3. Condition

  4. Value

  5. Trigger Expiration

  6. Contact Type

  7. Time Frame

    1. Always

    2. Custom

      1. Start Time

      2. End Time

      3. Weekdays


Once these are completed, press Create





Export Trunk Groups

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Create/Modify


After clicking on the Export button, you will need to type in a name for the .csv file.


You can choose whether to export to Trunk Group Configurations.




The export will contain:


  • Relationship Name

  • Trunk Group Name

  • Status

  • Directions

  • Relationship Type

  • Rating Assigned

  • Routeplan

  • Trunk (Count)

  • Monitoring

  • Media Anchor

  • Ports

  • CPS

  • Last Modification Date

  • External Name

  • NAT

  • Tech Prefix

  • Max Call Duration

  • Filter Media

  • Anchor Media

  • Transcoding

  • Codecs

  • Regexp Rule

  • Hunting Type

  • Egress IP

  • Send NDPI





Exporting the Configurations willi include:


  • IP Address

  • Port

  • Protocol

  • Weight

  • Trunk Monitoring

  • Name of Modifier

  • Hunting

  • Username

  • Server IP

  • Trunk Type

  • ANI Override

  • Failover Order



View the Vendor Routing Configuration

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group 


This section will allow you to choose which Routing Configurations are Active and Inactive for the selected Trunk Group.


To change a configuration from Active to Inactive and vice-versa, you will need to:

  1. Check the box to the left of the Routing Configuration name

  2. Press on the highlighted arrow icon between the two lists





Activate/Deactivate Trunk Group

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group 


Use the toggle switch on the Trunk Group list entry to Activate or Deactivate it.



Delete Trunk Group

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group 


Press on the red delete icon and confirm to delete a Trunk Group and all its associated configurations.



Capacity Dashboard

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group 


This feature will allow customers to create a special capacity group based on port/CPS limits that can be assigned to multiple Trunk Groups and count their individual usage towards the group limits. This will allow customers to share capacity within the same relationship without limitations of each individual Trunk Group.


From the Capacity Groups Dashboard, you can:

  1. Create/Modify a Capacity Group

  2. View assigned Trunk Groups

  3. View Capacity Group Triggers configuration

  4. Delete a Capacity Group





Create/Modify a Capacity Group

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Capacity Groups


To create a Capacity Group, provide the following:

  1. Capacity Group name

  2. External name

  3. Port Limit

  4. CPS Limit

  5. Description

  6. Bursting Threshold

    1. Port Limit



Assign a Trunk Group

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Capacity Groups


To assign a Trunk Group

  1. Select a Trunk Group from the drop-down menu

  2. Press Assign





Create/Modify a Capacity Group Trigger

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Capacity Groups


To Create/Modify a Capacity Group Trigger:
  1. Provide a Name

  2. Select the Type

    1. Ports

    2. CPS

  3. Select a Condition

    1. Less Than

    2. Greater Than

  4. Provide a Value

  5. Select a Trigger Expiration

  6. Select a Contact Type

    1. NOC

    2. Billing

    3. Sales

    4. Balance

    5. Rate

    6. Trigger

  7. Select a Time Frame

    1. Custom

    2. Always





Delete a Capacity Group

Relationship > Create/Modify > Trunk Group > Capacity Groups


To Delete a Capacity Group

  1. In the Capacity Dashboard, click the red Delete Button

  2. In the pop-up window, click on Delete



Rating


Rating describes the amount of money charged per unit of time. A Ratedeck is a pre-configured set of charging models depending on the geopolitical location of the customer and vendor.


Rate Sheets are mandatory for allowing perimeter to charge calls made on your network.

Rating Dashboard

Relationship > Create/Modify > Rating 


In the dashboard, you can see the current Rate Sheets available, including details such as the Type of the Rate Sheet, Direction, Relationship and Effective Date. 


The dashboard enables you to:

  1. Select the Rating Template - click here to find out more about Templates

  2. Assign to Trunk Group - this process is mandatory for applying the charges to calls

  3. Modify an existing Rate Sheet

  4. Create a new Rate Sheet

  5. Export the list of Rate Sheets as a .csv file

  6. Distribute the Rate Sheet - sending the Rate Sheets to Rating Contacts

  7. Download a single Rate Sheet as a .csv

  8. View the Ratedeck history - see changes made to the Ratedeck

  9. Modify the Rates

  10. Delete the Rate Sheet




Select the Rating Template

Relationship > Create/Modify > Rating 


Using the drop-down menu, you can choose which Rating Template you want to use as a default. To find out more about setting up templates, click here and navigate to the Template section.



Assign to Trunk Group

Relationship > Create/Modify > Rating 


Only after assigning a Ratedeck to a Terminating Vendor Trunk Group you will be able to charge your customers and vendors for using your network. To assign a Ratedeck:

  1. Press the Assign to Trunk Group button

  2. In the pop-up window, press Add Trunk Group

  3. Select a Trunk Group from the drop-down menu

  4. Press Assign




To unassign:

  1. Press the Assign to Trunk Group Button

  2. Press the Minus icon at the right of the respective Trunk Group



Create / Modify a Rate Sheet

Relationship > Create/Modify > Rating 


To Create or Modify a Rate Sheet

    1. To create a new Rate Sheet, press on the blue Create button

    2. To modify an existing Rate Sheet, click on an item from the list to highlight it and press on Modify


  1. Provide a name for the Ratedeck

  1. Select a Location for the geopolitical area in which the call will be set up

    1. US & Canada 

    2. International - every other country including the EEA

  2. Set the Direction of the configuration as Termination - you are sending traffic to an terminating device

  3. Select the Deck Type - Different Deck Types are available depending on the Location and Direction


Location

Direction

Deck Types Available

US & Canada 

Termination

Prefix Jurisdictional
LATA/OCN Jurisdictional

Peering
Local

Toll-Free

International

Termination

Dialed

EEA


  1. Set the Relation as Vendor

  2. Select the number of Rounding Digit

  3. Select the Expiration Date

  4. Select the Effective Date - By default, this is set to the current date

  5. Download a Sample - For use as a template for creating Ratedecks

  6. Select File - To import a .csv file as a Ratedeck source

  7. Save



Note: Expiration in the Rate Deck setup does not override the existing rate sheet that is loaded.


Ratedeck Mapping / Importing a Rate Sheet

Relationship > Create/Modify > Rating 


When you upload a Rate Sheet, you must align the headers from your .csv file to the headers provided in Perimeter:

  1. Select an existing Rate Sheet (by clicking on the list item in the second row) and click on Modify

  2. Click on the Select File 

  3. Select your .csv file and click Open. A new section named Ratedeck Mapping will appear in Perimeter

  4. All the headers from your .csv file will appear in the drop down menus. You will need to assign a header to each of the drop-down menus.

  5. (International Only) - You can select whether to Delete and Insert or the Append Rates checkbox. If you choose to Append, you will be able to upload change of rates effective at different times as per international rates distribution.

  6. After you finish mapping all the headers to the drop-down menus, click on Save & Upload





Appending International Rates

When appending International Rates, you can choose between the following options:

  • Keep Future Dates

  • Overwrite

  • Orphan Codes: Allows you to load a full A-Z deck on top of the previous deck and clean out any remaining codes from the system not present in the new deck. You can select how many days out you want to orphan the codes so that you can continue to use the existing rates until they are to be deleted.





Export the Rate Sheet List

Relationship > Create/Modify > Rating 


  1. In the Rating Dashboard, click on Export

  2. You will begin downloading a .csv file containing all the Rate Sheets associated to this relationship





Distribute the Ratesheet

Relationship > Create/Modify > Rating 


  1. In the Rating Dashboard, click on the email icon at the right of the list items

  2. In the pop-up window, press on Distribute (please ensure that you have added a contact type “Rate” in the Relationship Info tab to receive the Rate Sheet)





Download Rate Sheet as a .csv

Relationship > Create/Modify > Rating 


  1. In the Rating Dashboard, click on the download icon at the right of the list items

  2. You will begin downloading a .csv containing the Rates 





View the Ratedeck History

Relationship > Create/Modify > Rating 


  1. In the Rating Dashboard, click on the view icon at the right of the list items

  2. A pop-up window will display the latest changes 

  3. You can download the rates for each version using the download button at the right of the list items

  4. You can distribute all the entries from the Ratedeck History





Modify the Rates

Relationship > Create/Modify > Rating 


  1. In the Rating Dashboard, click on the green icon at the right of the list items

  2. A pop-up window will display all the previous rates that were applied from this Rate Sheet.





Delete the Rate Sheet

Relationship > Create/Modify > Rating 


  1. In the Rating Dashboard, click on the red icon at the right of the list items

  2. If the Rate Sheet is assigned to a Trunk Group, you will need to unassign before deleting

  3. Press on Delete



Routing


Note: No Routeplan can be assigned to the Vendor Trunk Group. However, a Routeplan must be set up on the customer side.


Balance/Payment


This section keeps logs of your customer’s usage and credit. You can send notifications containing balance and usage to the Balance Contacts.


Note:

  1. This function only works when a Balance Warning Template, Balance Suspend Template and contacts are correctly set up.
  2. This function is generally used for Customer Transactions. However, it can be used to track Vendor credit if necessary.


Balance/Payment Dashboard

Relationship > Create/Modify > Balance / Payment 


From the dashboard, you can set the following:

  1. Balance Warning Amount - Send out a warning notification to your customer when their usage reaches this value

  2. Balance Warning - Select the  Balance Warning Template used to send out the warning notification

  3. Disable Balance Offsets - Check this option to disable balancing between customer and vendor trunks

    1. By default, the system will attempt to balance your spending between what you send to a vendor and what they sent to you as a customer within the same Relationship. When disabled the balance will show purely what the customer trunk has spent and the vendor trunks has spent.

  4. Balance Suspend Amount - Suspend your customer’s services when their usage reaches this value

  5. Balance Suspend - Select the Balance Suspend Template used to send out the warning notification

  6. Send Daily Balance Email - Toggle daily notifications containing the balance at the end of the day

  7. Create/Modify a Transaction

  8. Export Transaction List as a .csv

  9. Delete Transaction




Create/Modify Transaction

Relationship > Create/Modify > Balance / Payment 


  1. Press on the Create/Modify button

  2. Select a Transaction Type

    1. Payment

    2. Credit

  3. Select a Payment Type

    1. Debit

    2. Credit

  4. Type in the Transaction Amount

  5. Provide the Date when the transaction took place

  6. Select the currency in which the transaction took place

  7. Enter a Payment Memo




Export Transaction List

Relationship > Create/Modify > Balance / Payment 


  1. In the Balance/Invoice Dashboard, click Export and provide a name for the file

  2. You will begin downloading a .csv containing the Transaction details





Delete Transaction

Relationship > Create/Modify > Balance / Payment 


  1. In the Rating Dashboard, click on the red icon at the right of the list items

  2. In the pop-up window, press on Delete



Portals - Create a portal for your carrier

Portals allow external contacts to access a page outlining select details about the relationship.



You can select which information to provide on your portals from the following:

  1. Daily Performance Email: A daily email sent to the configured contacts containing a performance report for the Relationship

  2. Show Costs

  3. Show Balance

  4. Display Rates

  5. Re-enable on Payment

  6. Apply PayPal Percentage and Fee

  1. Percentage Fee

  2. Total Fee

  1. Allow carrier to change IPs

  2. Display Accounting Info (allows the Portal user to access the Send Payments page)

  3. PayPal Limit

  4. Portal Template

  5. Show Carrier Payments

  6. Create/Modify a Portal User

  7. Export a list of Portal Users





Create/Modify a Portal User

Relationship > Create/Modify > Portals


To enable a user to access the portal, you will need to provide:

  1. Username

  2. Name

  3. E-mail address

  4. Phone number





Export a list of Portal Users

Relationship > Create/Modify > Portals


  1. In the Portals Dashboard, click Export and provide a name for the file

  2. You will begin downloading a .csv containing the Portal User details



Portal - View (what your carrier will see)


When the recipient of the portal invite logs in, they will see an interface with options based on the information selected for your carrier to view.

Relationship Portal Dashboard View:





Relationship Portal Reporting View:





Relationship Portal Diagnostic View:





Relationship Portal Accounting Send Payment View (requires the Display Accounting Information checkbox to be set when creating the user):




Relationship Portal Accounting Rates View:




Relationship Portal Accounting Invoice View:





Agents


Agents are independent external contacts which can refer new customers for your business in exchange for a commission.

Agents Dashboard

Relationship> Agents


In the dashboard you can:

  1. Create/Modify agents

  2. Export a list of agents as .csv





Assign Agents

Relationship> Agents


You can assign Agents to the appropriate Trunk Groups and determine the Commission Type and Rate.

  1. Select a Trunk Group to be associated the Agent

  2. Select the Commission Type

    1. Profit

    2. Revenue

  3. Select the Agent - you can set up Agents by following the instructions in the quickstart guide.

  4. Type in the Commision Rate

  5. Select the start date for the commissions

 



Logs


Any change submitted to a Relationship will be stored in the Logs tab. You are able to search for changes and export those as a .csv file for audit purposes.




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