Pre-Paid Accumulation function

- What is Pre-Paid Accumulation function?
- How do I configure Pre-Paid Accumulation?
- What are the account/subscriber behavior in Accumulation mode?

What is Pre-Paid Accumulation function?

It is a kind of billing mode of the Pre-Paid billing of G-4100. It allows each subscriber multiple re-login until the time allocated is used up.

. How do I configure Pre-Paid Accumulation?

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

2. Set up the Billing profiles and select the Accumulation 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. And about the Idle Time Out value here, it is designed for saving the usage time of subscribers. If a subscriber idle more than the time value setting here (no internet access traffic from the PC of subscriber), the system will automatically logout the subscriber. After that, subscribers need to login the system again with same user name/ password. (The usage time of the account is not used up.) Unlike the Time to Finish mode, subscriber can not login again with the same user name/ password.

5. Then in WEB GUI Advance/ Accounting. Define the expiration value of the logout account (The system only keep 512 accounts, so if a user logout the system, the account will exist in the system till the user re-logins and uses up the usage time of the account. If the user does not re-login, it will cause the device keep the account. This is the situation for one user, if the multiple users situation, the system will keep those accounts, finally it will cause the device can not generate accounts. So we define a time limit here, when the time is up, the logout 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 Accumulation 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. Pressing the Logout button to logout from system. The remaining usage time will stop count down. When the subscriber login again, the remaining usage time start to count down again.

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

6. When the idle time of subscriber exceed the pre-define idle time, the subscriber will be automatically logout by the system. The subscriber needs to re-login again. (The usage time of the account is not used up.)