Functionality
Payment cards
Payment cards can be used for one-time access to such services as Dial-Up, VoIP, ISG/SSG, as well as for replenishment of personal accounts.
A popular means of payment for services – payment cards can be used by regular customers for replenishment of personal accounts. Non-regular customers with the help of cards can get one-time access to services under public offer contracts. Non-regular customers are automatically registered in Billmaster during the first access to services and then receive services for the sum of the card nominal value.
Billmaster monitors the whole life cycle of payment cards: from generation of identification codes to registration of used cards. On each stage of life cycle cards are characterized by a specific status. Below is the list of possible card statuses.
| Generated | Identification codes of a card are generated and registered in Billmaster. Identification codes are login, password and PIN-code, formed by a combination of login and password. Logins and password are used for access to the Internet, PIN-codes – for VoIP access through the voice menu. |
| Arrived to the storehouse | The card is on temporary storage for its further handover to dealers. If dealers are not invited for distribution of cards, then this status is not used, and the next status is set. |
| Activated | The card has arrived from the printing office and is ready for use. This means that the card is in the retail chain or is already sold to customers, but has not been used yet. |
| Used | A non-regular customer used the card to access the services. |
| Used as payment | The card was used for replenishment of the personal account of a regular customer. |
| Blocked | The card is blocked by the domain operator and cannot be used. |
Generation of card packages
Payment cards are generated in packages, which consist of a random number of cards with the same nominal value. Packages are intended for convenient management of cards, as well as for participation in bonus programs. After generation of packages there are selected tariff plans for calculation of service costs.
Bonus programs
Bonus programs are intended for stimulation of customers, who actively use payment cards. Bonuses are accrued to personal accounts on reaching of certain financial conditions.
Payment card dealers
In order to organize financial interrelations with payment card dealers, the latter register in Billmaster as special customers. Their personal accounts contain cost of cards given to them, the cost of sold cards and dealer’s remuneration. Such accounting is available if the "Payment card dealers" module is connected.
