Wholesale¶
Wholesale clients are the simplest client type in IvozProvider.
It allows trunking services with Carriers without any application server features, focusing on concurrency and quality rather on having lots of services.
- Just make outgoing calls.
- IP authentication only (no register, no SIP auth).
- Calls go directly from users to trunks, without any application server involved.
- Support for routing tags (client can choose the outgoing route to use)
- Support for audio transcoding.
Warning
No users, no extensions, no internal calls, no DDIs, no voicemail, no call forwards... just outgoing external calls.
Error
Wholesale clients do not need to use Brand’s SIP domain in their SIP messages.
Adding/Editing clients¶
Hint
Some fields described below may not be visible depending on enabled features.
These are the fields shown when adding a new wholesale client:
- Name
- Used to reference this particular client.
- Billing method
- To choose among postpaid, prepaid and pseudo-prepaid. ‘none’ disables billing.
- Language
- Used to choose the language of played locutions.
- Default timezone
- Used for showing call registries dates.
- Currency
- Chosen currency will be used in price calculation, invoices, balance movements and remaining money operations of this client.
- Numeric transformation
- Describes the way the client will “talk” and the way the client wants to be “talked”.
- Max calls
- Limits outgoing external calls (0 for unlimited).
- Max daily usage
- Limits external outbound calls when this limit is reached within a day. At midnight counters are reset and accounts are re-enabled.
- A notification email will be sent to given address when configured max daily usage is reached. Leave empty to avoid notification.
When editing a client, these additional fields can be configured:
- Invoice data
- All the fields in this group will be included in invoices generated for this client. This section also allows showing/hiding billing details to client’s portal, such as Invoices, Rating Profiles and Price of external calls.
- Routing tags
- This field allows enabling routing tags for this specific client. Call preceded with this routing tags will be rated and routed differently.
- Audio transcoding
- This field allows enabling codecs for this specific client. This codecs will be added to the ones offered by the client in its SDP.
Error
Selecting codecs in Audio transcoding may lead to uneeded transcoding. Selecting ALL codecs is always a horrible idea. Do not select any codec unless this client does not support an specific codec that is compulsory for a needed destination/carrier.
Note
Apart from these fields, main operator (aka God) will also see a Platform data group that allows:
- Choosing an specific media relay set for the client.
Additional subsections¶
Each entry in this table has these additional options:
- List of authorized sources: client identification will be made looking up the source IP address in this table.
- List of client admins: this subsection allows managing portal credentials for this specific client. Read ACLs for further explanation about restricted client administrators.
- List of rating profiles: this subsection allows managing the rating profiles that will be used to bill its outgoing calls.
Warning
No outgoing call will be allowed for this client unless an active rating profiles that can bill the specific call.