A CCESS G ATEWAY170 System AdministrationSubscriber Interface MenuDefining the Billing Options {Billing Options}• Duration-based Billing Plans Setting Up a “Normal” Billing Plan, including pricing and bandwidth. Setting Up an X over Y Billing Plan Messages displayed to subscribers, including an Introduction Message, Offer Message and PolicyMessage. Billing schemes (units of access). Free billing options (free access). Promotional code options (for example, when offering a percentage discount).Duration-based Billing PlansThe purpose of this feature is to let hotels create billing plans that work in a similar fashion to pre-paidtelephone cards. This means that an operator can set the Access Gateway’s Internal Web Server (IWS) toallow users online on a time “X” over period “Y” basis. Standard billing plans (where time “X” = period “Y”)can be used concurrently with “X” over “Y” plans. For example, multiple plans with flexible billing eventoptions can be rolled out, such as: Plan A: 24 hours, 256kbit/s downstream, 128Kbit/s upstream, public IPaddress, $15 charge. Plan B: 8 hours to be used over 5 days, 512Kbit/s downstream, 256Kbit/s upstream, private IPaddress, $35 charge. Plan C: 1 week, 1Mbit/s downstream, 1Mbit/s upstream, public IP address, $99 charge.In addition to PayPal billing, Property Management Systems used by hotels are also supported along with theinternal data base of the Access Gateway and billing via Nomadix' secure XML API.See also Assigning a PMS Service {PMS} on page 113 (see following note).Your product license must support the PMS feature.1. From the Web Management Interface, click on Subscriber Interface, then Billing Options. The InternalBilling Options Setup screen appears:
