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Carrier-Grade Telecom Billing Software for VoIP Operators
ASTPP is a carrier-grade telecom billing software platform combining a full BSS with Online Charging System (OCS), Class 4/Class 5 softswitch, LCR routing engine, and real-time CDR processing - all from a single, open-source, customizable platform. Trusted by 20,000+ telecom operators across 95+ countries.
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Telecom billing software is a platform that automates the end-to-end billing lifecycle for telecommunications operators including call detail record (CDR) processing, real-time rating, invoice generation, payment collection, and revenue assurance. Modern telecom billing systems support prepaid, postpaid, and convergent billing models across voice, data, and messaging services.
What Is a Telecom Billing Software?
A telecom billing system is a software-based platform for monitoring service usage, calculating bills, preparing invoices, handling payments, and collecting revenues with high accuracy for telecommunication services.
In VoIP and telecom networks, billing systems handle:
- CDRs or Call Detail Records
- Rating and charging rules
- Prepaid and postpaid customers
- Wholesale and retail billing models
- Taxes, compliance, and settlements
Without automation, the billing becomes sluggish, error-prone, and cannot be scaled up. Therefore, modern telecom enterprises depend on automated telecom billing solutions such as ASTPP.
It automates the complete telecom billing lifecycle, thereby empowering VoIP providers, carriers, ISPs, and other telecom operators to enhance accuracy while reducing operational overheads.
Why Choose Our Telecom Billing Platform?
ASTPP is designed to support evolving telecom business models with precision, flexibility, and performance.
End-to-End Automation
Automate CDR processing, rating, invoicing, payments, settlements, and reporting on a single platform.
High Accuracy & Zero Revenue Leakage
Real-time validation, automated reconciliation, and precise rating logic ensure revenue accuracy.
Real-Time Processing
Process usage in real time and refresh balances to retain full operational control.
Multi-Tenant & Scalable Architecture
Manage multiple customers, resellers, and services within a single billing ecosystem.
Flexible for Wholesale & Retail Billing
Easily manage wholesale routing, interconnect billing, SIP trunking, DID billing, and retail services in one place.
API-Ready & Highly Integrable
Integrate with APIs to switches, SBCs, CRMs, payment gateways, and other third-party systems.
Advanced Analytics & Insights
Get deep insight into traffic patterns, margins, revenue trends, and fraud risk.
Prepaid & Postpaid Billing Support
Handle diverse customer billing models with real-time balance control and credit limits.
Take Control of Your Telecom Billing Operations
Automate real-time rating, eliminate revenue leakage, and scale your wholesale and retail billing with ASTPP’s powerful, automation-driven telecom billing software.
Key Features of Our Telecom Billing Software
ASTPP delivers advanced automation, real-time processing, and intelligent revenue management tools designed specifically for VoIP providers, carriers, ISPs, and telecom operators.
Real-Time Rating & Charging
Apply exact tariffs, billing steps, prefixes, and LCR-based pricing to derive accurate call costs and margins.
Intelligent CDR Collection & Mediation
Collect, validate, normalize, and route CDRs from a switch or SBC to ensure accurate billing.
Automated Invoicing & Payment Handling
Generate invoices automatically, apply taxes, handle both prepaid and postpaid billing systems, and make secure online payments.
Comprehensive Account & Subscription Management
Control your customer profiles, pricing plans, credit limits, resellers, and real-time balances in one integrated interface.
Advanced Reporting & Revenue Analytics
Access dashboards, traffic insights, profitability reports, fraud alerts and business intelligence.
Scalable, Secure & API-Ready Architecture
Deploy ASTPP in the cloud or on-premises, with enterprise-grade security and flexible integration options.
How the Telecom Billing Process Works
Understanding the telecom billing process is critical for accurate revenue management and business scalability.
CDR Collection
The gathering of raw call detail records is collected from the network elements, such as switches, gateways, and SBCs.
CDR Mediation
All the CDRs data are validated, normalized, and prepared for accurate rating and billing.
Rating & Charging
Tariffs, prefixes, and billing rules are applied to calculate charges in real time.
Account Balance & Usage Updates
For prepaid accounts, as well as for postpaid accounts, the balances or usage information reported for the clients is updated immediately.
Invoice Generation
Detailed billing statements are auto generated based on usage and billing cycles.
Tax & Compliance Management
Regional tax rules, surcharges, and telecom compliance requirements are automatically applied.
Payment Collection & Settlement
It also facilitates online payments, reseller settlements, autopay process, and reconciliations.
Reporting & Revenue Reconciliation
Monitor your revenues, track settlements, detect fraud, and assess how your business is going.
Why Choose ASTPP For Telecom Billing Software
ASTPP is purpose-built for VoIP and telecommunication companies that demand accuracy, automation, and scalability throughout the entire billing process. It provides real-time rating, smart CDR management, automated billing, and complete revenue analysis in a single integrated solution. It is designed to support both wholesale and retail billing systems, and it assists telecommunication companies in reducing manual intervention, eliminating revenue leakage, and maintaining complete control over account balances.
FAQ
Telecom billing software automates the complete billing lifecycle for telecommunications operators: capturing call usage via CDR processing, rating usage in real time against carrier rate tables, generating invoices, collecting payments, and providing revenue assurance controls. Modern platforms like ASTPP integrate directly with softswitch and routing infrastructure so billing decisions happen in real time, before and during calls.
BSS (Business Support Systems) is the broader category that includes telecom billing, customer management, order management, and revenue management. Telecom billing is the core financial engine within a BSS it handles rating, charging, invoicing, and payment. ASTPP delivers a complete BSS with an integrated Online Charging System (OCS), making it a full telecom operations platform rather than just a billing tool.
An Online Charging System (OCS) is the real-time charging component of a telecom billing platform. It checks prepaid balances before calls connect, decrements balances in real time during calls (per second), and terminates calls automatically when balances are exhausted. OCS is essential for prepaid VoIP operators and any carrier that needs real-time visibility into subscriber spending.
Least Cost Routing (LCR) selects the lowest-cost carrier path for each call based on destination, time of day, carrier rates, and quality thresholds. When LCR is natively integrated with billing as it is in ASTPP, the same system that rates the call also selects the carrier. This tight integration prevents margin erosion from routing decisions that don’t account for real-time rate changes.
A Class 4 softswitch handles wholesale carrier-to-carrier call routing and interconnecting it routes traffic between carriers without directly serving end users. A Class 5 softswitch delivers retail services to end users: SIP trunking, IP PBX, calling card, DID management, and features like IVR and voicemail. ASTPP includes both Class 4 and Class 5 softswitch capabilities on a single platform.
Yes. ASTPP supports cloud-native, on-premises, high-availability (HA) cluster, and geographic redundancy deployment models. Operators with data sovereignty requirements, existing data center infrastructure, or strict compliance obligations can deploy ASTPP entirely on their own hardware with full platform control.
ASTPP is an open-source VoIP billing and softswitch platform. Operators have access to the underlying codebase, enabling custom feature development, workflow modifications, and integrations that closed; proprietary billing platforms cannot support. Inextrix Technologies, the company behind ASTPP, also offers professional customization, implementation, and support services.
Deployment timelines depend on the chosen model and the complexity of your existing infrastructure. A single-node cloud deployment can be operational within days. HA cluster deployments with custom integrations typically take 2–4 weeks. Inextrix provides implementation support to accelerate deployment and ensure the platform is configured correctly for your specific billing and routing requirements.
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