Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-18 Thread Robert-iPhone
You mean VOIP isn't inherently easier than reselling Verizon CLEC :( I want my money back Sent from my iPhone On May 18, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: > On 05/18/2011 06:08 PM, A E [Gmail] wrote: > >> BTW, as far as the carriers are concerned, we have unsuccessfully tried >> that in d

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-18 Thread Alex Balashov
On 05/18/2011 06:08 PM, A E [Gmail] wrote: BTW, as far as the carriers are concerned, we have unsuccessfully tried that in different companies on several occasions. Like someone else mentioned, it appears that carriers deliberately make it really hard for downstream carriers to import these rate

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-18 Thread A E [Gmail]
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Fred Newtz wrote: > Sure not a problem. I have several other ideas for that software myself. > As you can imagine the ideas for it are limitless. > > I already have it setup here in house. If you have any problems feel free > to hit me up. > > Maybe we could ju

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-10 Thread Fred Newtz
Sure not a problem. I have several other ideas for that software myself. As you can imagine the ideas for it are limitless. I already have it setup here in house. If you have any problems feel free to hit me up. Maybe we could just talk the carriers into a standardized format. Fred On 0

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-10 Thread A E [Gmail]
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Fred Newtz wrote: > I would look into Jitterbit. You can create a one time conversion process > and it will automatically convert and import the data from any data source > to any other data source. It is open source and they have a very expensive > paid suppor

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-10 Thread Fred Newtz
I would look into Jitterbit. You can create a one time conversion process and it will automatically convert and import the data from any data source to any other data source. It is open source and they have a very expensive paid supported version as well. Worth its weight in Gold. Maybe we

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-09 Thread A E [Gmail]
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:25 PM, wrote: > And in this time you may have written one yourself. > Also saw your post on Freeswitch mailing list. > Nothing is free in this world. > > Asterisk is Free, So is Freeswitch and so are hundreds of thousands of open source projects which are million times mo

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-09 Thread rhuddleston
And in this time you may have written one yourself. Also saw your post on Freeswitch mailing list. Nothing is free in this world. Have you looked at A2Billing? If you want free - start there On May 9, 2011, at 9:06 PM, "A E [Gmail]" wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Alex Balashov > wrot

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-09 Thread A E [Gmail]
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: > On 05/09/2011 08:31 PM, A E [Gmail] wrote: > > Sure, like I said, not expecting to be spoon-fed, just trying to >> reduce the dev. time by taking existing code / scripts etc from >> anyone who's willing to share and tweak them to make it work

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-09 Thread Matt Riddell
On 10/05/11 12:41 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: At the risk of impetuousness, I think this is a somewhat misguided endeavour, simply because the code/templates/scripts you're asking for are inextricably found up in the specificity of a given ITSP environment, vendor blend, billing engine, etc. Yeah

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-09 Thread Alex Balashov
On 05/09/2011 08:31 PM, A E [Gmail] wrote: Sure, like I said, not expecting to be spoon-fed, just trying to reduce the dev. time by taking existing code / scripts etc from anyone who's willing to share and tweak them to make it work for the carriers we end up getting our rates from, as well as t

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-09 Thread A E [Gmail]
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: > On 05/09/2011 08:13 PM, A E [Gmail] wrote: > > Thanks for that. How do you handle the rate updates from your >> suppliers? I've noticed that the harder part is not so much >> importing the initial complete A-Z that the upstream provider gives

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-09 Thread Alex Balashov
On 05/09/2011 08:13 PM, A E [Gmail] wrote: Thanks for that. How do you handle the rate updates from your suppliers? I've noticed that the harder part is not so much importing the initial complete A-Z that the upstream provider gives (as hard as that is), but the weird ways that suppliers give ou

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-09 Thread A E [Gmail]
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Matt Riddell wrote: > On 10/05/11 6:28 AM, A E [Gmail] wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> new to the list. Wondering if anyone has / knows of, a good rate >> importer tool that can be used to standardize and normalize the >> ratesheets / rate decks etc. obtained from variou

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-09 Thread Matt Riddell
On 10/05/11 6:28 AM, A E [Gmail] wrote: Hi All, new to the list. Wondering if anyone has / knows of, a good rate importer tool that can be used to standardize and normalize the ratesheets / rate decks etc. obtained from various carriers so they can be analysed and imported into a DB or be saved

Re: [asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-09 Thread A E [Gmail]
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Brett Nemeroff wrote: > I'm not aware of any real good tools out there. It's normally a much more > complicated problem that it would seem. Especially if you are combining > sources from multiple vendors. Normally I find that a combination of perl, > awk and some bu

[asterisk-biz] Rates Importer Tool

2011-05-09 Thread A E [Gmail]
Hi All, new to the list. Wondering if anyone has / knows of, a good rate importer tool that can be used to standardize and normalize the ratesheets / rate decks etc. obtained from various carriers so they can be analysed and imported into a DB or be saved as a CSV or something? Thanks so much in