Billing discounts

Discount types

Billing discounts are calculated and applied during the monthly billing cycle accounting the one-time billing invoices issued within the calculation period.

The discount factor is calculated based on the parameter values (quantity of subscribers, quantity of billing invoices unpaid) and the billing invoice details amounts (accounting one-time billing cycles). The discount can be applied both to one or several billing invoice details. The feature allowing to post the calculated discount amount on the billing invoice detail for further displaying has been provided.

The following discount types are available:

The following discount factor value types are available:

Remark: the interests charged in the billing cycle can be posted as a separate invoice detail. If such detail is not specified, than the interests will be posted in the existing invoice details (in the discount plan details) on a pro rata basis.

Features

The following features are supported:

Calculating the discount on association, in that case the discount factor will be calculated as a result of parameters calculation for all association customers and will be applied either individually to each customer (absolute value only) or evenly distributed in proportion to the subscribers quantity on the personal account (absolute value only) or in proportion to the invoice details total amount (discount plan parameter).

It is not allowed to apply several discount factors to one billing detail, i.e. the situation when two discount schemes have the same billing invoice details for applying the discounts is forbidden.

nitial data

Quantity of customer's subscribers (in case of group customer - the total number of subscribers related to the group customer).

Quantity of unpaid billing invoices.

Invoice details amount.

Data defined by the user (generated by the processes that are specific for that operator).

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