Call shop
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A call shop is a business that provides physical phones for the purpose of making long-distance telephone calls. There are two main types of call shop payment methods; prepaid and postpaid.
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[edit] Call shop requirements
- VoIP account with a International Calls provider (typically VoIP)
- A Billing Software to manage Rates and prices.
- A VoIP Box, 4 or 8 ports, depending the number of booths
- An Internet connection
[edit] Prepaid
- Customer visits the call shop.
- Customer pre-pays the operator for the call.
- The operator will then activate a phone booth for the customer using billing software.
- The customer will go to the phone booth and dial the destination number.
- Billing software will record the call details and the corresponding call charges for future reporting needs.
[edit] Postpaid
- Customer visits the call shop.
- Customer chooses a vacant phone booth and dials the destination number.
- Billing software keeps track of each phone booth's call details and the corresponding call charges for invoicing and future reporting needs.
- When the customer has completed his/her calls, the operator generates an invoice for the customer's calls.
[edit] Links
- CallShopBilling: A complete Windows based software for CallShops. Works with all VoIP Providers
- Peoplecall, Callshop provider for VoIP International Calls, Free Billing Software
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