Flat Rate a Phone

Flat rating a phone makes all local calls one price, and all long distance calls another price. To flat rate a phone:

1. Open the phone record for the phone that will be flat rated. To do this, click on the Phones & Customers button, in the Navigator or the Navbar , and select the phone record from the Phone # pull-down list.

2. Right-click on the name of the Current cost record; select Edit. The Cost window opens, displaying the correct record.

3. Click the Clone button. Enter a name for the flat-rate cost record that you will make, then click OK.

4. Click on the Discount/Surchg Tables tab. Open a table by clicking on one of the seven buttons. In the table, enter a zero into each of the following fields:

In the Surcharge tab: Coin Surcharge, Card Surcharge, Super Collect Surcharge, Minimum Cost, and Tax Percentage.

In the Mon ñ Fri, Saturday, and Sunday tabs: each of the three INITIAL DISCOUNT and SUBSEQUENT DISCOUNT fields.

In the Daytime Discount tab: INITIAL DISCOUNT and SUBSEQUENT DISCOUNT.

5. Click Save, then close the Discount/Surchg window.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for all seven of the Discount/Surchg Tables.

7. Click on the Edit Assigned Bands tab.

8. Decide on a price for local calls. For all the bands that are NOT disabled (zeroes in the Init. Rate, Init. Time, Sub. Rate, and Sub. Time), that ARE between 1 and 79, and that ARE labeled Local in the Discount Table column, enter the desired local call cost information into the Init. Rate, Init. Time, Sub. Rate, and Sub. Time fields.

9. Decide on a price for long distance calls within the United States. For all the bands that are NOT disabled, that ARE between 1 and 79, and that ARE labeled Intra State/Intra LATA, Intra State/Inter LATA, Inter State/Inter LATA, or Inter State/Intra LATA, enter the desired long distance rates into the Init. Rate, Init. Time, Sub. Rate, and Sub. Time fields.

10. Decide on a price for calls to Canada. For all the bands that are NOT disabled, that ARE between 1 and 79, and that ARE labeled Canada, enter the desired long distance rates into the Init. Rate, Init. Time, Sub. Rate, and Sub. Time fields.

11. Click Save, then close the window.

12. Open the phone record that will use the new flat-rate cost record and select it in the Assigned pull-down menu of the Cost section. The next time the phone is polled, the new cost information will be downloaded to the phone.