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When to use 'Submit Buy in Advance Request"' 

Submit Buy In Advance Request action should be used in cases where the subscriber agrees to be billed for a longer period of time than the specified billing frequency in exchange of a discounted price.

Submit Buy in Advance action differs from the rest of the Subscriptions action types, in the way that it can be requested. It does not have a behavior and business code as the rest of the actions, and when submitted a request is created that is handled by the Billing Engine during the Billing Run, rather than an actual Subscription action

For a complete description of how to use the specific action go to Creating Managing Buy in Advance Requests