Pre-Paid Time to Finish

- What is Pre-Paid Time to Finish?

- How do I configure the Time to Finish function?

- What are the account/ subscriber behavior in Time to finish mode?

What is Pre-Paid Time to Finish function?

It is a kind of billing mode of the Pre-Paid billing of G-4100. It allows each subscriber a one-time login. Once the subscriber logs in, the system starts counting down the pre- defined usage time even if the subscriber stops the Internet access before the time period is finished.

If a subscriber disconnects and reconnects before the allocated time expires, the subscriber does not have to enter the user name and password to access the Internet again.

How do I configure the Time to Finish function?

1. In WEB GUI Advance/ Authentication, please select and enable the Built-in Authentication.

2. Set up the Billing profiles and select the Time to Finish mode.

3. Select and set up the account generators (Web base account panel/ SP-200/ Keypad).

4. Enable the credit card service. The G-4100 provides credit card service which provide by Authentize.Net. We will discuss more about the detail operation of subscribers in the below.

5. Then in WEB GUI Advance/ Accounting. Define the time out value of the unused account (The system only keep 512 accounts, so if there are too many unused accounts exist in the system, it will cause the device can not generate accounts. So we define a time limit here, when the time is up, the unused account will be deleted); the number of copies for printers to print out; and the function of the Replenish (Replenish here means allowing subscribers to purchase the additional time unit for their accounts before the accounts expire).

6. Final step, configure the login page. In the G-4100, you can select the login page as Standard/ Redirect/ Advance/ Frame page. Also, if the service of credit card is enabled, please configure the Credit Card customization page. For more detail setting of those pages, please take reference in the user manual. Here, we define the login page as Standard one and also enable the Credit Card service.

What are the account/subscriber behaviors in Time to Finish mode?

1. In this case, we enable the Credit Card service and Replenish Function; also configure the login page as Standard one.

2. When subscriber opens the browser, the subscriber will have two ways to login the system, one is normal user name/ password (you can find the user name/ password in the account tickets which generated by account printers or web base account panel), the other one is Credit Card service (For credit card service, the subscribers do not need to have user name/ password, because after subscriber submitting the data which the credit card service login page require, the system will automatically assign a user name/ password for the subscriber).

3. After subscribers successful login, the subscriber will receive a pop-up information window.

4. Pressing the Replenish button for purchasing extra usage time. For normal subscribers (login with user name/ password) need to get another account. For credit card users, only need to fill the require data again. (Notice: subscribers need another account here, after subscribers successful replenish account, the time in information window will equal the previous account remaining time plus the usage time of the new account).

5. When the remaining usage time is less than 5 minutes, the system will pop-up an alarm window for reminding.