IronPort Systems B-4000 Accounting, 7.1About Subscriber Accounts, 7.2Discount Price Plan, 7.3Accounting Settings, 7.2.1 Charge By Levels

ZyAIR B-4000 Hot Spot Gateway

Chapter 7

Accounting

This chapter shows you how to set up and manage subscriber accounts.

7.1About Subscriber Accounts

Once the time allocated to a dynamic account is used up or a dynamic account remains un-used after the expiration time, the account is deleted from the account list. Accounts are automatically generated either by pressing the connected exclusive printer’s button or using the web configurator (the Account Generator Panel screen).

7.2Discount Price Plan

You can configure a custom discount pricing plan. This is useful for providing reduced rates for purchases of longer periods of time. You can charge higher rates per unit at lower levels (fewer units purchased) and lower rates per unit at higher levels (more units purchased).

The discount price plan only works when the hot spot operator does the billing through the statement printer or the web-based account generator panel. The discount price plan does not apply to subscribers purchasing access time online with a credit card.

7.2.1 Charge By Levels

The discount price plan gives you the option to charge by levels. This allows you to charge the rate at each successive level from the first level (most expensive per unit) to the highest level (least expensive per unit) that the total purchase reaches.

Otherwise you can disable the charge by level function and charge all of the time units only at the highest (least expensive) level that the total purchase reaches.

See section 7.3.1 for an example of the charge by levels accounting function.

7.3Accounting Settings

Click ADVANCED and ACCOUNTING to display the screen as shown next.

Accounting 7-1