Tarifon

Call costs by department: allocating phone bills to cost centres without manual arithmetic

The carrier's invoice arrives as a single amount. Somebody else has to split it up.

Whose problem it solves

The carrier's invoice arrives as a single amount. The accountant needs to split it across cost centres, the manager wants to know why logistics spent twice as much as last month, and payroll needs the private calls separately. Tarifon does it once a month by itself.

How it works

You assign each extension to a department – on the Extensions tab or all at once by importing a CSV file in the form klapka;skupina. An extension belongs to exactly one department, so nothing is counted twice. The cost allocation then shows a row per extension and a subtotal per department – the number of calls, the time and the cost; a filter picks a single department, and you get the same view in the overview, the export and the printable report.

A monthly report all by itself

Once the billing period closes, Tarifon sends an e-mail with the report per extension and department and an Excel attachment; optionally also a separate attachment of private calls per extension for payroll. The billing period does not have to be a calendar month – if your carrier bills from the 15th, you set the first day and the report matches the invoice. The VAT rate, the rounding and prices with or without VAT are set the same way your carrier has them.

Limits and overview

Every extension can be given a monthly ceiling. At 80 % the row turns orange, at 100 % red, and Tarifon sends an e-mail – once per period, not on every check. The Overview tab shows how the costs developed over the last 12 periods, the ten most expensive extensions and the ten most expensive destinations.

Frequently asked questions about allocating costs to departments

Can an extension belong to several cost centres?

No, one extension belongs to one department; otherwise the same amount would be counted twice.

What about extensions with no department?

They are visible in the per-extension allocation but are not counted into the department subtotals.

Can the report be opened in Excel?

Yes, both the attachment and the export are CSV; the department is a separate column at the end, so older templates still fit.

Does it match the carrier's invoice?

Yes, if you set the VAT rate, the rounding (per call or only on the total) and the first day of the billing period according to your carrier.

Try free for 30 days

The full version, no card needed. When the trial ends the program keeps collecting calls – once you buy a licence, no history is lost.

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