h1. Billing packs

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Principle of work is described in section [[Billing pack]].

h2. General

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*name* - informational field, by which you can identify billing pack.
*use* - usage mode, see section [[Billing pack]]
*currency* - default currency for all prices from billing pack. In submenu you can re-define currency for certain destination codes.
*price includes tax* - enable this option in case if there is a tax included into price. Otherwise, in case if Company has tax configured, tax will be added to specified price.
*price increase deferral (days)* - if enabled, the system will check timeliness of price increase and destination removal notifications from peer and display error on import in case if partner violates contract and notifies not in time.
*generation profile* - see section [[Billing pack generation]]
*import exception class* - see section [[Billing pack import exceptions]]

h2. Price import from e-mail

This functionality is described in section [[Prices by e-mail]].

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*e-mail* - partner's e-mail, which is authorized for automatic price-list import
*mail account* - [[Mail accounts|Mail account]], which is used for automatic e-mail download.
*import class* - [[Price by e-mail import classes|Price by e-mail import class]], which is used for automatic parsing and import of accepted e-mail
*file template* - in case if partner sends various price-list tariffs (for example, Standard, Premium, etc) from the same e-mail address, you can specify template of attached file name to inform Smartswitch, that this billing pack should accept only certain category of price-lists.

h2. Price export to e-mail

Options from this sections are used for automatic export and sending of price-lists to customer's e-mail.

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*tariff* - in case if you support various tariffs for customer (for example, Standard, Premium, etc), this field should contain name of that tariff.
This name will be passed inside variable ${TARIFF} to the process of e-mail generation by [[Mail templates|Mail template]], and will be added to attached file name to enable your customer to correctly identify received information from downloaded e-mail.

h2. Menus

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h3. Lists

[[Price-lists]] - this menu is used in the *price-lists* mode (see section [[Billing pack]])
[[E.164 billing pack codes|E.164 codes]] - this menu is used in the *destination codes mode (see section [[Billing pack]])
[[Minute duration definitions]]

h3. Tools

[[Billing pack generation|Generate]]

h3. Price-list generation

These tools allow to get full price -list with a list of changes in the format, which has established in inter-operator price-list exchange.
This price-list could be later exported to file or automatically sent to all partners, which have that billing pack configured.

[[Prices with changes]]
[[Actual prices]]

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