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Step 1: Setting up Billing Term Schemes

First, you must configure the Start by configuring Billing Term Schemes.

Billing Term Schemes are used to control the creation or modification of Billing Terms. They provide information on the options available when creating Subscriptions and Jobs, such as the products that can be added or the Price Plans that will be used for their billingBilling. The Schemes also control Billing Engine processes by providing the billing Billing rules and policies that should be applied during Billing Runs.

Define the Termed Services and Expenses to be available for selection and addition to Subscriptions, and the Termed Services 'Billing Type' that distinguishes which services are PostPre-Rate and which will be PrePost-Rate Services.

• Post-Rate: Services Services which are billed after being used for a certain period (usually on a daily basis); and funds are directly deducted from the Wallet.
  
• Pre-Rate: Services which  Services are billed for an upcoming period defined in the System ; and funds are directly deducted from the Wallet to to cover the whole period.  
  
  • Period Billed in Advance: This is the The number of days/weeks/months that a Pre-Rated Service should be billed in advance.
    If the Wallet of the Subscriber does not have enough money to cover for the Pre-Rated period, then the Service(s) cannot be activated.  

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Step 3: Setting up Subscription Definition

An active Subscription definition must then be configuredConfigure an 'Active' Subscription Definition next.

A Subscription Definition is a set of business rules and conditions which are used to create and maintain Subscriptions throughout their Life Cycle. For example, through the Subscription Definitions, you can define the maximum number of Subscriptions you can have per account or the maximum number of Main Services and Physical products that can be added to a Subscription. 
Subscription Definitions provide a number of restrictions and controls and can be used to define product dependencies. For example, a rule can be set where additional channels cannot be added unless one of the Main channels is added first.

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Step 4: Setting up Billing Term Definitions

Billing Term Definitions come nextfollow. They These are differentiated based on Classification, which can be 'Subscription' or Jobs'Job'.

Billing Term is the agreement/ contract between the customer and the company. It provides information with regards to billingBilling, contract dates and billing Billing periods. Billing Terms are created every time a Billing Term Scheme is added or updated on the Job or Subscription, and it determines determine whether a Subscription will be handled by Normal or Prepaid Billing. Billing Term behaviour is governed by Billing Term Definition rulesRules.

Billing Term Definitions are used to define set the business rules used to which validate several processes applied to Subscription Subscriptions or Jobs, via through their related Billing Term. For example, you can define rules where you will not allow Regret after a  Rules can be defined where Regret is not allowed after a certain number of days, or define where cancellation penalties are applied based on a particular service and remaining binding period.Service's remaining Binding Period.  Rules are used across all Billing Terms, regardless of their SchemesScheme.  It is possible, however, for each rule, you can to define whether it a rule is only applicable to particular schemes.

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Step 5: Setting up Prepaid Billing Run Definitions

Time It's time for Billing!!!

Prepaid Billing is a business billing model where customers pay in advance for Services they want to buy or subscribe to, and the billing is handled by the execution of a Prepaid Billing Run.  The  The financial entity created by Prepaid Billing Runs is Wallet Transactions which are used to debit or credit the customer's Wallet.

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• Post-rated Services: Services are billed after being used for a certain period (usually daily), and funds are directly deducted from the Wallet.
• Pre-rated Services: Services are billed for an upcoming period defined in the system System and funds are directly deducted from the Wallet to cover the whole period.

Prepaid Billing Run definitions is Definitions are a set of business rules which are used to control the behaviour of Prepaid Billing Runs. Prepaid Billing Run Definition is Definitions are used to define several business rules that are must be applied during the Billing Run, but also as well as default values , which that are used while executing the Prepaid Billing Runs.

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Step 6: Setting Up Subscription Action and Sub-Action Types and Deactivate Prepaid Subscription Runs

Configure the following modules for additional functionality and categorisation. You can skip the configuration of the these modules if not required by your business modelSubscription Action Type:.
 

• Subscription Action Type: The modifications performed on a Subscription when a Subscription Action is executed depend on the Subscription Action's Type, while the Subscription Sub-Action Type is used to apply a business meaning.

  • There are 2 Subscription Actions and have two main characteristics that all Subscription actions have, and these are configured in the Subscription Action Type and Subscription Sub-ActionType Level.

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    There It is no need not necessary to configure Subscription Action Types as you can find all available Subscription Action Types and Sub-Types can be found in the Subscription's page. Configure new Subscription Action Types and Sub-Types only if you want to categorise actions executed Actions.

• Deactivate Prepaid Subscriptions: The deactivation process for Prepaid Subscriptions is used in order to identify Subscription Services that belong to Prepaid Subscriptions, which should be deactivated based on process uses the amount of money left in their the customer's Wallet and the rate of the Subscription Service as defined in the Price Plan, to identify Prepaid Subscriptions Services which should be deactivated.  The deactivation decision is based on the Prepaid rating Classification calculated by Prepaid Billing Runs before the process is executed.
  The decision on deactivation, is based on the Prepaid rating classification, which is calculated by Prepaid Billing Runs that are executed before the process is executed.

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