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Learn to work with Normal billing |
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Account identification
The accounts to be billed are identified by the billing process.
Ranking
Subscriptions and subscription services are ranked to determine their processing order, as described in the table below
| Sorting of Subscriptions | Subscriptions are sorted based on:
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| Sorting of Subscription Services | Services are sorted based on the following logic:
Services within each category are then sorted based on the following logic:
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The billing process identifies the price and period that subscriptions and services should be billed for. The services are then renewed and billed, or are placed in a queue for deactivation (when the respective process is executed), following the logic in the table below:
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| Pre-bill Pay Before Bill | Subject to sufficient funds for an additional billing period, or if the funds are automatically retrieved through a payment gateway:
If the funds are insufficient to cover the cost for the period:
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| Pre-bill Pay After Bill | If the credit limit of the accounts receivable will not be exceeded after billing the services for an additional period:
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| Post-bill Pay After Bill | If the accounts receivable hasn't reached its credit limit:
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- Become effective subscriber
- Amend billing terms (if the action changes the subscription's scheme to Normal)
- Activate subscription
- Start subscription service
- Swap service
- End subscription resting
- End short term deactivation
- Add usage service
- Short-term activation
- Add effective Services
- Add expense
- Amend bundle services
- Change subscription distribution
- Amend services and installed items.
Additional fees applied to a bill
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Additional fees can be applied on bills during a normal billing run process, based on the presentment preferences of the subscriber. Additional fees are applied to each bill on a separate invoice financial transaction.
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Bill Additional Fees | Define if additional expenses will be applied on the bill of each account owner. Multiple additional fee rules might apply in each billing definition. Additional fee rules can be modified or deleted at any time. Start by specifying the expense service that the account owner will be charged for on each bill, as well as the conditions that should be met to apply this extra fee (such as, which account owners will be billed with the fee). During a normal bill perform run, the billing definition will be checked against the subscriber and the additional fees will be applied. |
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