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The results in the table can be filtered by the reseller name.

Adding resellers

For you as for the owner of the business, should suffice to add only the reseller account of level 2 or 3.

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  • General
  • Personal Data
  • SMTP Settings
  • Permissions
  • Payments

General tab

The main tab groups the mandatory properties which include the ones set during the account creation plus the Balance and the Clients limit fields.

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Clients limit – the maximum allowed number of client accounts that can be created by the reseller

Personal data

The profile tab groups the personal or company details that will be used on invoices. In addition there is language settings.

Permissions and account types

The next tab allows to limit the client types available for a reseller and to set permissions to access certain screens and functions of the VSM reseller’s panel. The settings are configurable per reseller.

Client types

The Client types section let you choose which of the account types will be available to the reseller and all his subresellers. For example, if we limit a reseller level 3 to access the retail type of clients only then his children resellers, both level 2 and level 1 will inherit the limit. The scope of the limit can be narrowed but never extended by a reseller of the lower level. For example if a reseller level 3 has access to wholesale and retail types then a reseller level 2 (whose parent is the level 3 reseller) can change the scope of the limit for his children resellers level 1 and allow them only to access retail type clients. The screens and functions related to other, restricted types of clients or resellers will not be shown in the VSM reseller’s panel. The reseller will be able to create and manage accounts of the Retail client type only.

Permissions

The permissions section allows for enabling or disabling access to certain screens (menus) and to certain functions in them.

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Similarly, the actions for the other menus can be configured. Thus you can customize the functionality of the VSM panel for each reseller.

SMTP settings

In this tab you can configure the SMTP settings for the reseller. The configuration will be used every time when the system sends an email to the client that belong to that reseller. If left blank the default voipswitch SMTP settings will be used.

Charging flow

The reseller’s charging model is based on base tariffs which are assigned to a reseller account by its parent reseller or by voipswitch’s owner. The base tariff is a default rate sheet which cannot be modified by reseller to whom the tariff is assigned. It can be modified at any moment by the tariff owner, i.e. the parent reseller or by voipswitch owner. The base tariff is in fact a cost tariff which is used to charge calls from client accounts which directly or indirectly belong to him.

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Similarly the system will cut the call when the shortest max call duration elapses, regardless on which level.

Reseller’s panel

A reseller can log into the VSM reseller’s panel at the VSM’s address with the ResellerLogin extension, instead of the default OwnerLogin. For example:

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In the profile panel there are information on the current balance and the client limit.


Level 1

A reseller of level 1 will have the following screens:

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  • Billing – which further divides on:
    • Tariffs, which includes:
      • Bundles
      • Tariff to DNIS mapping
    • Invoices
  • Reports
    • CDRs – details for calls made by the reseller’s clients
    • Sales – reports on balances and payments of the clients
  • Settings
    • Notifications

Level 2

Resellers of the level 2 have access to the following menus:

  • Clients:               
    • UC/PBX clients and UC/PBX subaccounts
  • Billing:
    • Tariffs
    • Bundles
    • Tariff to DNIS
    • Invoices – for the UC/PBX clients
  • Resellers – creating and managing reseller accounts of the immediate lower level, in this case level 1
  • Reports
    • CDR – call details of UC/PBX clients
    • Sales – transactions made by the UC/PBX clients and Resellers level 1

Level 3

The highest level provides only the following menus:

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