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Sub-module	Type	Classification	Navigation	Dig In
Billing Term Schemes	Configuration		CONFIGURATIONBILLING APPLICATIONBILLINGSET UP BILLING TERM SCHEMES	Configuring Prepaid Billing Term Schemes for Subscriptions
Subscription Types	Configuration		CONFIGURATIONBILLING APPLICATIONSUBSCRIPTIONSSET UP TYPES	/wiki/spaces/WIP/pages/10008626Subscriptions
Subscription Definitions	Configuration		CONFIGURATIONBILLING APPLICATIONSUBSCRIPTIONSSET UP BUSINESS DEFINITIONS	/wiki/spaces/WIP/pages/10008628Subscriptions
Billing Term Definitions	Configuration		CONFIGURATIONBILLING APPLICATIONBILLINGSET UP BILLING TERM DEFINITIONS	/wiki/spaces/WIP/pages/10008621	Subscriptions
Prepaid Billing Run Definitions	Configuration		CONFIGURATIONBILLING APPLICATIONBILLINGSET UP PREPAID BILLING RUN DEFINITIONS	Configuring Prepaid Billing Run Definitions
Subscription Action and Sub-Action Types	Configuration		CONFIGURATIONBILLING APPLICATIONSUBSCRIPTIONSSET UP SUBSCRIPTION ACTION TYPES	/wiki/spaces/WIP/pages/10008627	Subscriptions
Deactivate Prepaid Subscriptions	Application	Image Added	BILLINGImage AddedSUBSCRIPTIONSImage AddedDEACTIVATE PREPAID SUBSCRIPTIONS	Prepaid Subscriptions
Subscription Maintenance Utility	Application	Image Added	BILLINGImage AddedSUBSCRIPTIONSImage AddedSUBSCRIPTION MAINTENANCE UTILITIES	Subscriptions

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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 Pre-Rate and Post-Rate Services.

• Post-Rate: Services which are billed after being used for a certain period (usually daily); and funds are directly deducted from the Wallet.
  
• Pre-Rate: Services are billed for an upcoming period defined in the System and funds are directly deducted from the Wallet to cover the whole period.
  
  • Period Billed in Advance:  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.  

Once created, Billing Term Schemes are added on Subscription Types.

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A Subscription Type defines the company's commercial policies which are applied on Subscriptions of that type, such as what Services and what Physical Goods can be added on each Subscription Type, which Billing Term Schemes will be made available for each Subscription Type as well as the company's departments (Organisational Units) can create Subscriptions of the specific Type.

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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 in order 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 on 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 Schemes however, for each rule, you can define whether it is only applicable Scheme.  It is possible, however, to define whether a rule applies 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 in order 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

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-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 model.
 

• 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 Action Type Level:

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• • Sub-ActionType Level.

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    It is not necessary to configure Subscription Action Types as

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• • 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

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• • categorise executed Actions.

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• Deactivate Prepaid Subscriptions: The process uses the amount of money left in 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.

Do it Yourself!!

Prepaid Subscriptions

Billing Term Schemes

Subscription Types

Create the following Subscription Definition

Billing Term Definition

Create the following Prepaid Billing Run Definition

Company ZX bills has the following requirements regarding its subscribers billing

• Billing Run executed every day and the Bill as Of date should be one day after the previous Billing Runs Day

• Blling Run should be executed with 32 threads

• Subscription that have been disconnected should be restarted if there wallet balance is over 0

• Subscriptions whose wallet balance is 0 or less should be disconnected

• System should estimate wallets that have been changed since last Billing Run execution
  

• Normal Debit Wallet Transaction type should be created when executing Billing Run 

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A Billing Run definition will be set up in the System with the following configurations

Prepaid Billing Run Definition

Wallet

Definition