The package management is the most sensitive and problematic part of the network billing system. It's a reasonable set, it's a good deal for users, it's a steady income for operators; it's a messy set, complaints from users, and client service is tired. A truly well-used web billing system must be not simple."Set up a few price brackets.", but a complete system that can group users, billing strategies, drop-out rules, and batch operations.
NATSHEL_BRAND V7 Authentication & Billing Designed for package management around"User Group"Develop. The system supports the delineation of multiple user groups, supports the demarcation of sub-user groups without any limit on hierarchy, and assigns administrators to manage user group privileges and allows flexibility in multilevel user rights management. Different user groups can set different product packages without interference between items.
The user group is the skeleton of a set.
The value of the user group is to put it"People"and"Rules"The operator defines the user group: a student group, a teaching staff group, a visitor group, or a block-by-building group; and assigns a set of policies to each group. This allows the opening of a home to be automatically effective as long as the user is placed in the right group.
V7 also supports the definition of different user groups based on the words IP, ACIP, ACNAME. Different user groups can be associated with different set-show strategies. This means that the group dimensions can be flexible: users in different buildings are automatically divided into different groups, users using different NAS products are automatically assigned to different groups, and the set sets may vary according to their set of holsters, speed limits, and down rules.
Flexible definition of the package
V7 supports a custom package that can set complex costing strategies such as year, month, day, hour and traffic, and also supports preferential packages and stacking. Preferential packages are suitable for marketing events, such as six months of shopping in the start-up season; and superpacks for supplementing scenarios, such as flow gas kits outside basic food sets.
For different user groups, different plants can be assigned NAS products that generate different drop-off rules such as speed limits, shutdowns, etc. This solves a real pain point: the campus accommodation and teaching areas may use network devices from different manufacturers, and the same system of billing will have to send different strategies for different equipment.
Batch Changes and Connecting Updates
The most practical capability in package management is mass modification. V7 supports bulk modifications: just changes to products, and all user rules for the corresponding account numbers are modified accordingly. This ability is critical for operations.——Price adjustment, package upgrades, temporary promotions, all dependent on"Relocation, full connection."Otherwise, hundreds of accounts would be maintained on a case-by-case basis and the cost of manpower could not be controlled.
The user management interface is also designed to be integrated: it includes new openings, renewals, changes in user information, changes in product, lockdowns, passwords, printing bills, downlines for users, text messages, etc. All of these are performed on one key.
A few check points before the package is online.
Several check points are worth repeating before the package is online. First, whether the set is complete with the user group and if there are no users belonging to the group; second, whether the boundaries of the billing strategy are clear, such as zero or no remaining traffic, no access for a month, or speed reduction; third, whether differences between different packages are clear and understandable to users; fourth, whether the calibration logic of batch modifications has been verified and whether the resets will cause injury to other users.
The opening of the account is connected to the package. V7 supports new accounts, lots of accounts, first-time start charges for users, and binding of the MAC address, NASIP address, VLAN address, ACIP, SSID.
The package system is also aligned with the statistical reports. The data are relied on for these judgements, which groups contribute the main income and which one of them is most mature. V7 statistics provide indicators of trends in enrolment, online trends, registration type statistics, online rates, Internet user ratios, daily life, time per capita access to the Internet, per capita traffic.
V7 supports the interface with LDAP, whereby user groups and suites under a single account can follow the structure; supports the interface between the basket and the operator ' s billing system through Radius and the operator Boss; supports the alignment of a cartoon, where campus settings are charged, consumed, and identified within the same system. The package management is not a door-to-door pricing system by itself, but is clearly linked to upstream accounting systems, downstream payment channels, horizontal business systems, and is clear in the selection.
The package strategy is also adapted to different ways of accessing. In the same system, WebPortal users, PPOE dial-up users, 802.1X authentication users, IPOE users are common and IPE users coexist. V7 supports a mix of authentication networks. The various user groups can be freely integrated: the accommodation area uses PPPoE for account, public areas uses Portal for daily use, and conference rooms are defined with a fee-free approach."Who, where, how to access the Internet, what rules to charge?") If the equipment is to be given guidance, it will not remain at the price table level.
The package is well managed and the users and operators are each able to: users choose according to their needs, and operators manage according to the user group.