ASTPP has been covered in "Open Source For U" magazine for March 2016 edition under ADMIN section with article title "Start your VoIP Calling Card Business using ASTPP" - Page: 38 & 39. With the release of this article, ASTPP has achieved a new milestone of being most popular and advanced Open Source VoIP Billing Solution among India's largest Open Source community. We heartily thankful to ASTPP team members for working hard on the project which has lead the project on this golden stage and all community members for their support and trust in us.

1. Admin How To
You’ve always wanted to be an entrepreneur but were perhaps held back because of lack of technical
knowhow.Well,here is your chance to set up aVoIP calling card business.This article gives you detailed
steps on how to go about it.Who knows,this might just be the launch of an entrepreneur…YOU!
mobile SIP dialer, called the ASTPP Dialer, which is freely
available on Google’s Play store. This provides mobility
to its users. ASTPP clients can register their user accounts
directly in their mobile devices and start making and
receiving calls, thereby being able to see the real-time
balance of the configured account.
Features
Here are the system wide features of ASTPP:
ƒƒ Calling card support with IVR
ƒƒ Prepaid/postpaid accounts
ƒƒ Rates management
ƒƒ Multi-layer reseller support
ƒƒ Detailed reports
ƒƒ IP based authentication support
ƒƒ Service provider
ƒƒ Force routing
ƒƒ Multi-currency support
ƒƒ Flexible configurations
ƒƒ Invoicing and accounting
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STPP is a powerful and advanced open source billing
solution for FreeSwitch (VoIP). Being a Class 4
and 5 SoftSwitch, it supports prepaid and postpaid
billing along with call rating and credit control features. It
also provides all major demanding features such as Calling
Cards, Least Cost Routing (LCR), DID management, resellers
management, and many more.
ASTPP is open source and will always remain so.
Why ASTPP?
Whether yours is a new startup or a huge established set-up
of VoIP billing services, ASTPP fits in your environment and
gives you a quick start.
The major benefit of using any open source solution is the
large number of community members behind it who take part
in active discussions – which is why ASTPP is the best. So
far, ASTPP has attracted thousands of users and developers
through its attractive UI, easy architecture and quick releases
of new versions, along with stable widely-used features.
Moreover, the ASTPP team has released an Android
Start Your VoIP Calling Card
Business Using ASTPP
Admin Let’s Try
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4. Configure your tariff plan and
load rates with your profit margin.
5. Generate bulk Calling Cards
from the ASTPP portal and print
them out.
6. Market your Calling Cards to
grocery stores, convenience stores
and foreign owned stores, where
customers shop for services that
relate to their home countries.
System requirements
Minimal hardware requirements
ƒƒ 2GB RAM
ƒƒ 40GB hard drive
ƒƒ 64-bit OS (Centos/Debian latest version)
ƒƒ High-speed Internet connectivity
VoIP requirements
ƒƒ VoIP provider to terminate outbound calls
ƒƒ DIDs to receive incoming calls
Figure 4 shows the components that are needed.
Quick installation steps are given below:
# wget --no-check-certificate https://goo.gl/HjHXlF -O install.sh
# chmod +x install.sh
# ./install.sh
ƒƒ Pinless authentication
ƒƒ Strong LCR terminology
ƒƒ Free package management
ƒƒ Concurrent calls control per customer and trunk line
ƒƒ Supports PayPal payment gateway
ƒƒ Mass mailing
ƒƒ API support for easy integration
ƒƒ Separate login for different roles: admin, sub admin,
reseller, customer and service provider
Please refer to Figure 2 for the detailed feature list.
Steps to starting a Calling Card business
If you are planning to start a Calling Card business or want
to become a wholesale/retail VoIP service provider, then
you are in the right place. All you need is a working copy of
ASTPP loaded on your server, which is configured based on
your requirements. So let’s begin:
1. Get ASTPP loaded on a server that has good hardware
specifications and a fast Internet speed.
2. Get a reliable local and long distance VoIP provider. We
recommend Ipcomms as one of the best VoIP providers.
By using Ipcomms, you will have all the rates loaded
automatically in your ASTPP, by default, which will
reduce your efforts and the time required to set things up.
Your ASTPP set-up will be preloaded with two free SIP
trunk lines and 50 outbound minutes for you to try, all
provided by Ipcomms.
3. Get a direct inward dialling (DID) number and configure
it as the access number, which your customers can dial
in and connect with your system. As a result of the
partnership that iNextrix has with Ipcomms for ASTPP,
you can get a FreeDID from Ipcomms.
Figure 2: Calling card concept flow
[ Admin Generate
[ Print and distribute
Calling Cards ]
Making Call
[ Customer purchase
calling Card ]
Calling Cards ]
ASTPP Server
Figure 3: Components
Figure 1: Detailed features of ASTPP
By: Samir Doshi and Arpit Modi
The authors, who have B.E. degrees in computer engineering from the
Gujarat University, are directors of iNextrix Technologies Pvt Ltd. They
are maintainers of the ASTPP Open Source project, and are actively
involved in community support, new version releases and commercial
aspects. Their expertise lies in VoIP, Web and mobile technologies.
Website: www.inextrix.com; Emails: samir.doshi@inextrix.com; arpit.
modi@inextrix.com
[1] http://www.astppbilling.org
[2] https://astppdoc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ASTPP/
Welcome+to+ASTPP
[3] http://www.inextrix.com
[4] http://www.ipcomms.net/astppsignup
References
Note: There may be some restriction on VoIP
technology usage, based on country you reside.
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