Account code per call

General Help
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I am trying to implement a solution for a lawyer’s office. They want to enter an account code during a call that gets put into the CDR so they can charge their customers for the time spent on the call. Their existing pbx mutes the DTMF with a feature code and then stores the entry. Is there any way to do something like this?

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Yes

3

Thanks, skyking! I would appreciate it if you would elaborate…

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This can be done using asterbilling with freepbx. First when you create the extension, in the device options set accountcode in the respective field. Then set billingfield in /opt/asterisk/scripts/astercc/astercc.conf as described below:

billingfield= accountcode

then save and restart.

/etc/init.d/asterccd resstart

then loging to asterbilling and add clid with accountcode. You need to login as groupadmin or operator to do the testing.

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CarolClark, so then the lawyers will all log into asterbilling during each phone call and fill in a field in the CDR for the call they are on?