Navigating to Rated Billing Items

Explaining Rated Billing Items Fields

Name

Description

Accounts Receivable

Job

Activity

Billing directive

Using Rated Billing Items

Rated Billing Items (RBIs) hold information related to the billing of a Product. This information includes the Product, Price Plan or Usage Service Catalog Rate, applied Additive Discounts or Buy in Advance Requests, Physical Goods quantity or Subscription Service period the product is billed for, the process that created the RBI and more.

• Navigate to Rated Billing Items and explore existing entries via the Summary page. 
• Click on the link (name or number) of the entry of your interest to enter the Data Entry page and see more detail. 
• Use BACK to return to the Summary page.
• Click on ACTIONS to discover other possibilities available for Rated Billing Items.
• Click on the Audit Log button to view a log of changes performed on the displayed Rated Billing Item.

Check the Validations & Restrictions Table for a list of available Actions when working with Rated Billing Items, including each Action's related restrictions, validations, additional information and a description of its system process.   View the Attributes Table below for a comprehensive description of the Rated Billing Items fields. 

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Validations & Restrictions

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Attributes

The following attributes will be available depending on the Classification (i.e. whether it was created for a Job a Subscription or a UDR) and its Billing Directive.

Creating & Saving, Validations & Restrictions

Creating a Rated Billing Items

Additional Actions

Adjusting Rated Billing Items

The ADJUST Action is used to modify Rated Billing Items (instead of the EDIT button), and it is limited to the specific information fields below:

1. Rated From
2. Rated To
3. Total Amount

Follow these to adjust existing Rated Billing Items:

1. Navigate to Rated Billing Items.
2. Search for the item that you want to adjust and click on its Number to go to the Data Entry page.
3. From the Actions Menu click ACTIONS > ADJUST.
4. From the modal window, update the required information.
5. Click on SAVE.

Cancelling Rated Billing Items

Rated Billing Items are cancelled. Both 'Billed' and 'Not Billed' Rated Billing Items can be cancelled, and the System handles each case accordingly, with the corrections reflected on the Accounts Receivable or the Wallet by the next Billing. Follow the steps below, to cancel Rated Billing Items:

1. Navigate to Rated Billing Items.
2. Search for the item that you want to cancel and click on its Number to go to the Data Entry page.
3. From the Actions Menu click ACTIONS > CANCEL.
4. Provide a Cancellation Reason, to document the action.
5. Click on SAVE.
   You can confirm that the item is cancelled by checking its Billing Directive.
   

Billing Rated Billing Items

Normal Billing Run and Prepaid Billing Run are responsible for billing all Rated Billing Items in a batch mode. The manual billing of individual Rated Billing Items is also possible through the respective action, available in the Rated Billing Items Data Entry page. Follow the steps below to bill Rated Billing Items which are not yet billed:

1. Navigate to Rated Billing Items.
2. Search for the item that you want to bill and click on its Number to go to the Data Entry page.
3. From the Actions Menu click ACTIONS > BILL.
   You can confirm that the item is billed by checking its Billing Directive which is updated to 'Billed'.

Excluding Rated Billing Items from Billing Runs

Rated Billing Items can be permanently excluded from Billing Runs. This is possible by updating the Billing Directive on the item to "Not To Be billed". The action is possible whether the item has been billed or not and the System will handle each case accordingly.  Follow the steps below to exclude Rated Billing Items from billing.