Billing Terms become terminated whenever they are replaced by a new instance of Billing Terms. Terminated Billing Terms will be used by the billing engine as long the period during which the record was effective is not billed yet. Billing Terms can also be terminated in cases in which the related Subscription becomes terminated.

Billing Term Schemes become terminated whenever they are replaced by a new instance of Billing Term Schemes. Terminated Billing Term Schemes will never be used again in order to create new Billing Terms. However, Billing Terms that were created prior the scheme’s termination, will continue using its settings.

Billable entities are a set of entities which can be billed through the billing engine.

Prepaid billing run is a billing mechanism which is used in cases where customers pay in advance and after that start using the services that were subscribed to, by deducting the used amount from the paid amount, using the wallets module.

 It is usually performed on a daily basis and is responsible to:

• Identify the service usage
• Rate the used services
• Debit the related wallets based on that usage

In addition there are optional services to:

• Stop subscription services which are left with no wallet credit
• Start services which were stopped and are now having enough wallet credit
• Estimate the date that the wallet amount will be consumed by the subscription services, based on their existing usage and billing term schemes.

In contrast to Normal Billing Run you do not have the option to select up to which step the Prepaid Billing Run will be executed, however you have the option to choose whether Stop and Start Service as well as Estimation steps will take place or not.

Visit  Understanding Prepaid Billing Run Execution Steps for a full description of the Prepaid Billing Run processes

Prepaid Billing Run is responsible for billing all accounts/subscriptions whenever executed in a batch mode.

While for Normal Billing you have the option to bill individual billable entities; prepaid billable entities cannot be billed in an individual basis, but you have the option to get a bill preview.

• Individual Subscriptions can be previewed via the Subscription Action Bill Subscriber. Visit Bill Subscriber for a step by step process of how the action can be used.
• Individual Accounts can be previewed via the action Bill account which is accessible via the Accounts Receivable detail page. Visit Billing Accounts Receivable for a step by step process of how to bill the account.

Rated Billing Items is information generated by the billing engine, that represents a set of services and physical goods that were provided to customers along with the applicable rates and information on how those rates were calculated. Rated Billing Items are Implicit Viewing Access Entities and the owner group is implied from the related subscription.

Rated Billing Items to be created, are identified via the Identification process of the Billing Run, while the Rating process is responsible to create them.

Rated Billing Items is one of the main sources of information which is being used by the next steps of the Billing Run to proceed with the creation of Financial Transactions which will later be grouped into a single bill per account. 

Both Normal and Prepaid Billing Runs are using Rated Billing Items.

Visit Rated Billing Items for a full description of the processes available for handling Rated Billing Items

Subscription services supported by Prepaid Billing Term Schemes have 2 options of being billed:

• Post-Rate: A prepaid service which will be rated up until the date that the Prepaid Billing Runs is performed.
• Pre-Rate: A prepaid service which will be rated for an upcoming period of time in advance by Prepaid Billing Runs.

Pre-Rated (i.e billed services) which go through amendments (i.e. removed or cancelled) will be credited through Credit Wallet Transactions during Prepaid Billing Runs as part of this billing adjustment.

• Global Viewing Entities