Connect PortaBilling to your network and business systems. Choose the workflow solution that fits your integration needs.
PortaOne offers two workflow solutions, each designed for a different type of automation.
For telecom provisioning and custom integrations
Build API-driven integrations between PortaBilling, network elements, and external systems with custom logic and event-driven automation.
Best suited for:
Engineering teams, solution architects, and system integrators.
For business process automation
Build low-code workflows that connect PortaBilling with CRM, ERP, finance, ticketing, and other business applications.Build low-code workflows that connect PortaBilling with CRM, ERP, finance, ticketing, and other business applications.
Best suited for:
Business operations, IT, finance, customer success, and cross-functional teams.
From subscriber provisioning to customer onboarding, PortaOne workflow solutions help automate the processes that connect PortaBilling with the rest of your business.
Automatically activate, modify, suspend, or terminate subscriber services on network elements when changes occur in PortaBilling.
Synchronize subscriber data with HSS, PCRF, SBCs, IPTV platforms, and other telecom infrastructure.
Trigger SIM activation, replacement, or status changes in external provisioning systems.
Connect PortaBilling to proprietary or third-party systems using custom connectors and event-driven automation.
Create and synchronize customer accounts across PortaBilling, CRM, ERP, and other business applications.
Automate the flow of customer, product, and service data between sales, billing, and operational systems.
Synchronize invoices, payments, accounting records, and financial data with ERP and accounting platforms.
Coordinate approvals, notifications, ticketing, and other multi-step workflows across enterprise applications.
Both workflow solutions integrate with PortaBilling, but they automate different parts of your ecosystem.
NSPS connects PortaBilling with network elements and external applications through APIs, event-driven automation, and custom integration logic.
NSPS listens for events in PortaBilling, executes custom business logic, and exchanges data with external systems through APIs and connectors. It is designed for telecom-specific integrations where provisioning, network communication, or custom processing is required.
Customer creation, service activation, account updates, payments, or other events can automatically start a workflow.
Developers can add validation, transformations, business rules, and provisioning logic before communicating with external systems.
Connect network elements, SBCs, softswitches, payment gateways, or any application with an API.
Boomi Workflows orchestrates business processes across PortaBilling and enterprise applications using low-code workflows and pre-built connectors.
Boomi Workflows orchestrates business processes that involve PortaBilling and multiple enterprise applications. Low-code workflows coordinate people, approvals, and system integrations without requiring custom application development.
Exchange data with CRM, ERP, finance, ticketing, cloud applications, and other systems through Boomi connectors.
Route approvals, trigger notifications, update records, and automate multi-step operational workflows.
Information entered in one system automatically updates the others, reducing manual work and inconsistencies.
Both workflow solutions are designed to integrate with your existing environment. Whether you're developing custom integrations or configuring business workflows, PortaOne provides the tools and guidance to accelerate implementation.
Any developer familiar with REST APIs and JSON can build an NSPS connector using Python, Node.js, Java, or another modern language. No prior PortaBilling experience is required.
Instead of starting from scratch, you can:
NSPS is managed by PortaOne in the cloud. Your connector runs wherever it makes the most sense for your business – as a Docker container on AWS, Google Cloud, or your own infrastructure.
Design workflows using Boomi's visual low-code tools. Extend them with JavaScript or Groovy when needed. Familiarity with the PortaBilling API helps when building more advanced integrations.
Accelerate implementation using:
Deploy the Boomi runtime on your own cloud, in Boomi-managed cloud infrastructure, on PortaOne-managed infrastructure, or in your own data center.
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Whether you're automating service provisioning or connecting business applications, we'll help you choose the workflow solution that fits your architecture.
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Traditional integrations typically require developers to write and maintain custom code that calls the PortaBilling API and external system APIs to synchronize data. This includes implementing event queuing, retry logic, and error handling.
PortaOne Workflows provides two solutions to reduce that effort:
With PortaOne Workflows, you can connect PortaBilling to external systems with minimal or no coding, and launch your services faster.
Let’s look at each solution included in PortaOne Workflows separately.
NSPS is typically used for simple, one-step provisioning actions.
When a subscriber lifecycle event occurs (such as SIM activation or a plan change), NSPS picks it up, enriches it with all the relevant data (such as subscriber service configuration), and delivers it to your connector. The connector is a small microservice that receives the event data from NSPS and calls the target system’s API to apply the change (e.g., to activate a SIM card in an HSS or update a subscriber’s profile in an IPTV platform). NSPS manages event queuing, retries, and replays of failed events, so you don’t need to implement this logic in your connector.
A Boomi workflow is a configured sequence of steps, and Boomi’s platform is typically used for complex, multi-step workflows that synchronize PortaBilling with business applications.. For example, when a new customer is created in PortaBilling, a workflow might create a corresponding record in a CRM, update an order in an ERP, and send a confirmation email to the customer.
A workflow can be triggered automatically by an event in PortaBilling, launched manually, or run on a schedule. Boomi uses PortaBilling’s API to obtain the necessary context, and connects to external applications via pre-built or custom connectors, executing the configured sequence of actions.
PortaOne Workflows integrates with the Boomi low-code platform to work with business applications such as CRM, ERP, accounting, and helpdesk systems.
You can leverage hundreds of prebuilt connectors developed and maintained by Boomi and its partner ecosystem to quickly connect PortaBilling with widely used systems such as Salesforce, HubSpot, SAP, and many more, without building connectors from scratch. On top of that, PortaOne provides ready-to-use sample workflows for common telecom use cases which you can use as templates and adjust only the parameters you need. Examples include automated invoice and payment synchronization with an external accounting system, customer data exchange between CRM and billing, or automatic ticket creation in a support system based on specific events. For unique scenarios you can create a custom integration in Boomi using its visual no-code UI or low-code scripting.
For NSPS, your team (or your integration partner) typically develops and maintains the connector that communicates with the external system. Any developer familiar with REST APIs and JSON can build a connector – no special knowledge of PortaBilling is required. PortaOne provides the NSPS connector implementation guide and a working sample connector on GitLab that you can use as a starting point and adapt for your system. New connectors can also be built using AI coding assistants. NSPS itself is deployed and managed by PortaOne in the cloud.
On the Boomi platform, workflows which connect PortaBilling with external applications via connectors, can be configured by your own team, an external integration partner, or PortaOne engineers. If your team is taking this on, you’ll need someone proficient with Boomi’s architecture and low-code programming. PortaOne provides workflow templates that can be adapted to your business processes instead of building workflows from scratch.
With NSPS, you can build connectors for any system that delivers services to end users and requires near real-time, one-step updates such as mobile network components (HSS, PCRF) or IPTV platforms.
With Boomi, you can connect PortaBilling to virtually any business application. For hundreds of widely used applications (such as Salesforce, HubSpot, SAP, QuickBooks, and Xero) prebuilt connectors are already available. For other systems, a custom connector can be developed.
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