The first thing we're going to do is to get a wireless network in school."Let the teachers and students have access to the Internet on campus."And it's complicated when we have to build a WiFi system with billing functions. Who should be free, who will charge fees, what they are, how they are collected, how they are reconciled, and how each one is misdirected, and then the rest becomes dirt. We've been through a lot of school projects, equipment is not expensive, it's expensive to think about before, rules change around the system, teachers complain more than students. This piece is just a book, not parameters.
We'll tell you who's free and who's paying.
This is the first payment and the most easy to be shot. The teacher’s office, classroom teaching network, usually at school, does not charge students with this money. The real charges are often the boarding house, temporary access for visitors, or bandwidth beyond base levels. Some schools have a free-of-charge plan, with their own export bandwidth being used in the dormitory, and information can be checked in the classroom. Others have a flat fee, while teachers’ offices buy a meal package, financial and educational services are not happy.
The billing pattern is set. It's a good system.
The school WiFi is based on several models: a monthly package, a flow charge, a long time fee, or a one-time buyout. In primary and secondary dormitory units, students pay for a full term; in higher education schools, they pay for a lot of money by traffic."You'll have to take a dozen bucks for one night."The system is forced to return to the month, and the money collected will have to be withdrawn. So the fee-paying model must be confirmed by three parties – school workers, finance, logistics – before construction, preferably for students, and not until deductions are paid.
Which one of the money goes, compliance is more important than convenience.
Schools collect money from students, not just by opening a two-dimensional code. It is recommended that the billing system and the financial process of schools be directly linked, at least if the manufacturer pushes the collection stream to the school's reconciliation every day, each trace can be checked. The books are not cleared, and it is also a risk that the system will run again.
The export bandwidth is based on peaks, not regular estimates.
The billing system is..."Do you want to collect money or not?"But the students feel that"Quick!"Many schools have broadband exports estimated by the number of people in regular hours, with accommodations full from night to night, videos painted and a certificate filled, but the speed of the export is too slow. Before construction, exports are assessed on a peak basis and it is confirmed whether operators give exclusive or shared bandwidth. The billing system usually allows for a limit per user, such as a single account ceiling, so that one person does not eat the entire floor. Speed limits strategy is also set ahead, either at peak or average, how to deal with violations and write them into rules.
The reconciliation and refunds must be kept in advance.
If you are a paid-up system, there must be reconciliations and refunds. School drop-outs, transfers to the profession, double charging, and systematic withholdings occur every month. Before building, make sure that whoever approves the refund is automatically returned or paid off, and how long the bill can be kept, students can check their own consumption details. We suggest that the credit backstage provides students with a self-help access point where they can see time and amount of each deduction, so that the number of complaints can be reduced by half. In the case of reconciliation, the financial situation is to be equal to the bills for the payment channel, which are not expensive, but necessarily needed.
The accounting for these amounts before construction does not mean that all details are to be set dead, but there must be a consensus on the big classification, fee logic, and money flow. The school WiFi online billing system is a technical project, and the real difficulty is in rules design and cross-sectoral coordination.
Tell the students the rules before you go online.
Many complaints are not due to the cost of fees, but because students do not know it. We suggest that when the billing rules are established, they will be passed through the school book, the dormitory bulletin, and the school public."How much? What's the charge? What's the amount of extra money?"It's clear that it is not until the first fee is withheld. Early notification can relieve most emotions. We met a school, we made Campus a push rule before going online, and there were almost half fewer complaints about WiFi than expected. Transparency first, conflict later, and order cannot be reversed.
Don't expect a system to solve all the problems online.
Last note, the billing system is just for"Collect."This level, which covers quality, speed and speed is a wireless network and export bandwidth, so don't put bad coverage on the billing system. Before building it, we have to separate responsibility for these things: who's in charge of wireless coverage, who's in charge of exports, who's in charge of billing. We've seen schools blame the poor reception of dormitories."The billing system isn't working."The AP is not enough. The accounting and the responsibility are split, otherwise the system is not going to be able to take the blame for it, and the teacher/student is not going to be satisfied.