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Which connectivity types does Trunkstar support?

Trunkstar supports connectivity portfolios across dark fibre, wavelengths, point-to-point Ethernet, Ethernet NNI, DIA, and broadband. Managed overlay products can include IP services, CPE, subnets, hardware, and licenses.

Can underlay and overlay products be managed together?

Yes. Overlay products can remain linked to the access and transport services they depend on, so commercial, operational, support, and billing context stays connected.

Can Trunkstar manage complex SD-WAN solutions?

Yes. Trunkstar can keep SD-WAN hardware, licenses, underlying connections, and capacity requirements related across sourcing, quoting, ordering, service management, and billing.

What is Trunkstar?

Trunkstar is connectivity lifecycle management software for telecom providers. It brings serviceability and sourcing, quoting, ordering, delivery tracking, commercial governance, and analytics into a configurable environment.

Who is Trunkstar designed for?

Trunkstar is designed for carriers, ISPs, MSPs, VNOs, wholesale providers, and other connectivity businesses with repeatable supplier, quoting, ordering, or customer workflow needs.

Is Trunkstar a carrier or internet service provider?

Trunkstar is a software provider. It supplies the workflow engine used by connectivity providers; it does not replace the provider's identity or supplier and customer relationships.

What is connectivity lifecycle management?

It is the connected process of capturing connectivity demand, checking serviceability, sourcing supplier options, building a governed customer quote, placing and tracking an order, and using the resulting operational and commercial data.

How does Trunkstar check availability and pricing?

Trunkstar can bring together configured supplier sources including APIs, files, building lists, geographic inputs, portal workflows, and human-assisted firm-quote requests. The available sources depend on the provider environment.

Can Trunkstar process multi-site requests?

Yes. Trunkstar supports availability requests with multiple addresses and keeps every location, supplier option, quote status, and exception visible across multi-site opportunities and RFPs.

What is the difference between budgetary and firm pricing?

Budgetary pricing supports early evaluation but may not be confirmed for a customer commitment. Firm pricing has been reviewed or returned by the relevant supplier for the request. Trunkstar can keep both pathways visible.

Can suppliers respond to a firm-quote request?

Yes. A supplier can return an offer and add context when automated data is not firm, keeping the response inside the quote workflow.

What commercial rules can be managed?

Trunkstar manages customers, price books, roles, costs, pricing, margins, quote validity, approvals, and quote presentation within each provider environment.

Can an accepted quote become an order?

Yes. An order can be created from an accepted quote or directly from selected products.

Can Trunkstar be white-labelled?

Yes. Trunkstar can use your custom domain, look and feel, email templates, quote templates, invoice templates, terminology, and business rules so the solution reflects your proposition.

Does Trunkstar integrate with CRM and customer portals?

Yes. Trunkstar's API-first architecture connects with CRM systems and customer portals while preserving ownership, identifiers, and workflow status across systems.

Which workflows use AI?

Trunkstar uses AI to assist with address validation, supplier selection, connectivity sourcing, and quote preparation.

Does AI replace human review?

No. Firm supplier responses, commercial approval, and workflow exceptions still require authoritative data and appropriate human review. AI-assisted steps should support those decisions rather than conceal them.

Where can developers find the API documentation?

Developer documentation is available at docs.trunkstar.com and covers authentication, availability requests, quotes, orders, customers, and projects.

How do we get started?

Begin with a representative workflow and identify its suppliers, inputs, users, commercial rules, systems, exceptions, and desired outcome. Trunkstar can then demonstrate the relevant modules and integration approach.

Does Trunkstar include support ticketing?

Yes. Support tickets can be linked to any object, including customers, projects, quotes, orders, and services, so the conversation remains connected to its lifecycle context.

Does Trunkstar include task management?

Yes. Tasks can be created for individuals or teams, include reminders, and remain connected to the relevant commercial or operational workflow.

Can teams use comments and mentions?

Yes. Comments can be attached to lifecycle objects, and mentions can notify colleagues or keep them involved in the work.

How does Trunkstar preserve accountability?

Ownership and object history show who changed what and when. Outbound email logs also show what was sent, when it was sent, and to whom.

How are users, permissions, and access managed?

Trunkstar provides user management with permissions and access rules that control which environments, customers, data, workflows, and actions each user or team can access.

Which environment types can Trunkstar create?

Trunkstar supports dedicated internal environments, wholesale and channel environments, customer environments, and agent or reseller environments.

How do agent and reseller commissions work?

Trunkstar calculates agent and reseller commissions automatically and supports commission payout through credit invoices.

What billing does Trunkstar automate?

Trunkstar automates multi-entity recurring and one-time invoicing, installments, credits, approvals, and credit invoices. Billing and payment information can integrate with the provider's bookkeeping system.

Can finance review and approve invoices before sending?

Yes. Draft invoices can be reviewed before issue, with separate permissions for viewing, managing, and approving invoices and support for bulk approval.

Can Trunkstar support supplier price negotiations?

Yes. Trunkstar supports firm-pricing requests and price negotiations linked to bulk opportunities, new projects, quotes, orders, and active services.

Which service changes can Trunkstar manage?

Trunkstar manages upgrades, downgrades, renewals, migrations, and cancellations, including buyout calculation when it applies.

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Trunkstar platform overviewTrunkstar API documentationTrunkstar firm-quote workflow post