Calling Card setup example

Card Group creation

We need to create Calling Card Group to handle all such Cards.

We go to SETTINGS – Addons – Calling Cards and press on New card group. In new window we enter our Card's details:

After creating a Card Group we will see all it's details:

Change image for Card Group

Press on and go back to Groups details and select image for your card:

press Upload:

Generate Cards

Now when we have Calling Card Group we need to generate some Cards. Let's press on Add cards:

Here we will create 10 Cards starting from 2000000001:

Create Dial-Plan

Now when we have Calling Card Group and Cards we need to create rules how to handle all these cards.

For that we need to create Dial Plan. Lets go to SETTINGS – Billing – DIDs – Dial Plans and press on New Dial Plan.

In new window we enter following details:

Name is just for informational purposes, NUMBER and PIN length should match our just created Calling Card Groups settings.

We want IVR to ask for number AND pin, so we leave Ask only PIN unchecked. IVR will tell us remaining time and balance.

And will ask for number/pin and destination 3 times most:

Assign DID to Dial-Plan

In last window we see that we do not have DID(s) assigned to our Dial Plan.

We need to go to SETTINGS – Billing – DIDs and select some of available DIDs and press on its icon:

Here we select our Calling Card Test DP and press on confirmation mark.

New window shows status about our action:

Mark Card as Sold

In order to be able to use Cards these Cards should be Sold - e.g. ready for usage.

Lets make one Card "sold" for testing.

Go back to Cards list and press on icon near some card:

Press Buy icon:

And Confirm purchase:

Now this Card is marked as "Sold" and can be used:

Conclusion

That's it. Calling Card engine is ready to serve calls.

In our example number 37063042438 is Access number to be dialed to reach IVR.

When you will dial to this number (in example), IVR will ask to enter card number/pin and follows all other Calling Card logic.