Introduction to CentreBill

CentreBill (or CenterBill) is an extremely flexible and scalable billing and administration application for ISP's, Telco's and any other provider of services requiring repetitive real-time billing.

Through its extensive range of API's (interfaces into other applications such as call logging and Radius systems), CentreBill may be tailored for virtually any application.

Based on a centrally hosted server, the administrative staff within a provider will interact with CentreBill through a functionally rich browser-based front-end. Furthermore, customers of the provider my view full contact, service and financial details on-line through a Web browser. They may also make payments on-line via a secure real-time payment gateway.

By centralizing CentreBill, any new functionality is immediately accessible by the users. Costs are kept down and the system is accessible any where a browser-enabled computer is available.

CentreBill is fully capable of hosting several companies at the same time. The robust design of the database and code ensures full integrity between all data for each hosted company.

CentreBill has three major modules or functional components. They (and their corresponding names) are:

• MI3 - this is the user interface designed and presented to the provider's customers online. The customers will log in via the provider's Web site and will have access to all their information on line.
   
• MI6 - this is an extension to MI3 and provides additional functionality to enable the provider's administrative staff to access the most common and useful functions of CentreBill via any browser enabled PC in the Internet.
   
• MI9 - the full function user interface for the provider's administration and support staff. This is the heart of CentreBill and is not intended to be accessed by the customers.

This section describes the extensive functionality of CentreBill. The information is presented function-by-function. As CentreBill has been developed with an intuitive user interface, it is envisaged that the reader will have a good understanding of the capabilities of the product by the end of this section.