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1. What are the charges for resellers? What is the monthly fee for resellers?
Our objective is to help our resellers grow. We understand that global trade is a competitive market and we understand that you have many choices. We would like you to choose
us as your telecom partner, and we ensure that we provide the best service at the best price. Below are a breakdown of what our resellers pay for IDN services.
- UK£500 (or US$900) for training & Switch Partition. This will be refunded after 6 month, if the average turnover across all active groups reaches UK£10,000 (or US$18,500) by the third month of operation, and continues to grow.
- For every special, dedicated European access numbers ordered you are charged at GBP £50 ($90.00) per number set-up.
- Set up fee for forwarding accounts is GBP £50 ($90.00), and a charge of GBP £10 ($18.00) per year for each number.
- GBP £10.00 ($18.00) per annum or £1.00 ($1.80) per month for each DDI number for Call-back service.
2. How competitive are IDN rates for reselling call-through or calling card services?
When calculating the reseller rates for a call-through or a calling card service, the call rate from a country to any other country is dependant on 2 factors. The free phone charge from
that country to UK and then the outbound charge for termination to the destination country. IDN will provide the reseller with a per second charge rate for the free phone number and
a per second rate charge for all the worldwide destinations. It is then up to the reseller to decide on rates that he wishes to sell to his clients. The procedure for setting up
a reseller partition on the IDN switch is described in the reseller How to become a reseller section.
IDN review rates on monthly basis to ensure our resellers have the most competitive prices in the market.
3. Why do IDN take prepayment from resellers?
To ensure that we can always offer the most competitive prices to our resellers and end users, IDN protects the business from bad debt, by ensuring that all services to resellers are prepaid.
We can then concentrate on providing services at the tightest margin possible.
4. Can the reseller use a credit card to prepay for the service?
Yes. You can provide a signed authorization letter to IDN authorizing the company to deduct funds from your credit card and to add this to your account partition. All credit card
clearance carries a clearance fee.
5. What are the terms and conditions for resellers?
The full terms and conditions are described in the reseller contract.
6. Do you provide calling cards / phone cards from a particular country for resellers?
IDN do not print or produce their own brand of calling cards. However, we are able to provide calling card services from any country where there is a freephone service available. This
is provided as an infrastructure service to resellers who wish to print and distribute their own calling cards. The list of countries where this service is available is constantly
increasing and for information about a particular country, please contact customer services.
7. What is the commission structure for a reseller?
Resellers do not get commission from IDN. IDN provides the reseller with wholesale rates to all international destinations. The reseller is free to resell these rates to his clients
at the price they wish to sell. The difference between the IDN wholesale rate to the reseller and the reseller rate to his client is the profit made by the reseller.
8. Do you provide USA toll free/1800 numbers?
9. Are there any discounts for resellers?
The rates IDN provide are competitive and are aimed to help the reseller to develop his telecommunication business. As IDN works at very low margins, there are no other discounts
available for resellers.
10. What is UK VAT? Do you charge UK VAT/taxes on top of the rates to resellers?
IDN parent company is based in London, UK, and as such the company operates under European Trade and Telecommunication directive. VAT is the UK "Value added Tax" which is currently
15% on all sales done inside any EEC country. This is a government tax, which has to be levied on all sales within EEC. The rates provided to reseller are dependent on the country
of the reseller. For resellers outside EEC there is no VAT charge on invoices. If the reseller is based in EEC then they are eligible for UK VAT at 15%, which is added to the invoice.
11. Can IDN provide rates in US$, Euros or some other currency?
Yes. The rates provided by IDN to the reseller are per second billing rates and can be offered in UK£, US$ and Euros.
In fact most IDN resellers buy rates in US$.
12. Can we update client's info, change callback numbers, add new accounts etc. from our end via the WEB?
Yes. For more information on our remote management features see here.
13. Do you provide CDRs in text-delimited format so we can bill the client from our end?
Yes, you can download daily and monthly CDRs directly from the web. The daily CDRs are one day delayed and the monthly CDRs are generated on first of each month for the previous months records.
14. Should a carrier supplied by IDN fail to route the call to a particular country, is IDN able to reroute the calls through alternative carriers?
Yes. We are able to terminate international calls through various channels. If one channel fails, we can quickly reroute through an alternative channel or carrier.
15. What is the maximum length of a single call?
The maximum duration set on our system is 90 minutes for a single call. If the user's call exceeds 90 minutes, it shall get automatically cut off by the system.
16. Notes with regards to our services and contracts:
- We operate a prepaid reseller service, all services are prepaid
- Resellers are charged for all calls made on a per second basis (except for Mexico where calls are charged on 60 second billing due to local laws)
- Once you start with us, you are allocated an account manager. A group is created for your clients and the group parameters are set up in order to provide the service you require. You can set up unlimited number of accounts under your group. All accounts created under the same group behave the same and according to group specifications.
- We provide a support service from 9.00am to 17:30pm Monday to Friday (London time)
- We provide a secure access to your group on a 24 hour basis via the Internet
- For call back accounts, there is a charge of GBP£10 ($18.00) per DDI per year
- You are charged GBP£500 ($900) for Teledome training & Switch Partition. This will be refunded after 6 month, if the average turn-over across all active groups reaches GBP £10,000 ($18,000) by the third month of operation, and continues to grow.
- You are charged GBP £50 ($90.00) for every special, dedicated European access number ordered.
- You are charged a set-up fee of GBP £50 ($90.00) for forwarding accounts. Also GBP £10 ($18.00) per number per year, or £1 ($1.80) per month for each numbers
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