Re: [hylafax-users] Windows Faxing and Accounting Questions

[Dan Tappin <dan@wavefront.ca>]

Clear as mud :^)

We bill a fixed charge per page.  Each project has a id (job) number 
(3036, 2941 etc).  All I need is some sort of system where a log is 
created with the date and time of each fax, the number of pages and the 
job number.

Ideally I would log this in a MySQL database and auto generate a report 
for each billing period (I'll work on that later!).

Looking at the docs I see that smbfax pulls the fax number from the 
document.  So you are saying that I could modify smbfax to do the same 
thing for my job number?

Also I read that the fax number and fax number tag (fax_no: 403555555) 
must be plain text.  Does this mean I would need to trash my fancy MS 
Word fax cover page with formated text?

Dan

On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 01:45  PM, Sam Kalet wrote:

>> Our office is a consulting company and fax is billed to the respective
>> client.  So if this were to work each fax sent would need to have to
>> log a client code (four digit).  Ideally It would be a normal windows
>> printer share via our existing samba server.
>
> It's not clear here exactly how you are billing (per minute, per fax, 
> per
> byte).  If it were per fax or byte you could modify the smbfax scripts 
> to
> add a text field to enter the client code and then maintain a log on 
> the
> fax count or byte count by client code.  If you wanted to do per 
> minute or
> per page billing, I imagine that you could correlate the client code 
> entered
> with the jobid of the fax submitted and then with the log entry for the
> jobid where you could obtain page count or transmission time.
>
> I think all of the information is available to you, but you are going 
> to
> need to do a little scripting to actually correlate everything.
>
>
>
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