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Prepaid WiFi Services
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Account Info tab
o
Type
– Account type; select
Debit
for prepaid service.
o
Inactive
- Allows to generate the accounts as initially inactive and
assign them to a distributor later on.
o
Generation method
– Choose
Random
here; this will assign
every account a unique, randomly-generated PIN.
o
ID prefix
– If you would like all of the generated accounts to
start with the same digit string (e.g.
98
), enter it here. Thus, if you
enter 98 and an ID length of 10, account IDs (PINs) will look
like this: 98NNNNNNNN, where N = random digits.
o
ID length
– All account IDs (PINs) will be numerical and of the
specified length. In order to avoid problems with the prepaid
card print-shop, PortaBilling® will not generate account numbers
with a leading zero. Also, PortaBilling® will only allow generation
of a batch with feasible parameters, e.g. it is impossible to
generate a batch of 1,000 accounts with ID length 4 and ID
starting at 55.
o
Starting ID
– Enter the initial digit set you would like the
generated accounts to start with. Thus, if you enter 5553000, the
account IDs (PINs) will look like this: 5553000, 5553001,
5553002 and 555300N, where N = subsequent digit. (This is only
available in Sequential generation, and is always numeric.)
o
Service Password
– To improve security, you can use an
account password during authentication, in addition to a PIN;
this is highly recommended for the WiFi service. If you choose
Empty
, no password will be assigned to the account, and the
password check will be switched off during authentication (so the
customer can supply any password).
o
Batch
– Accounts are grouped into batches. If a new batch name
is provided in the text field, all accounts will be placed into a new
batch with the given name. Otherwise, an existing batch should
be selected from the drop-down list.
User Interface tab
o
Login
– If you choose
Account ID
(default), your customer will
use his account ID (PIN) to login to the self-care pages. If you
choose
Empty
, the account owner will not be able to use the
self-care pages at all until a login has been assigned for his
account.
o
Password
–
Auto-generated
means that a random password for
web access will be assigned for each account (these passwords
will be included in the .CSV file with the account information).
Empty
means that no password will be assigned, so account
owners will be able to login to the web interface simply by
providing their account ID (PIN).