Hi Yilin
It's not clear to me what you were looking for. But I'll try to explain my understanding, apologies if this appears too elementary.
In the product catalog (via TMF620), we define the implementation of the pricing, i.e. ProductOfferingPrice.
As part of the ordering process (via TMF622), the pricing is instantiated for the ordered product, as OrderPrice, and sent to some billing and charging system.
The pricing is also instantiated in the product inventory as ProductPrice.
The billing and charging uses its internal representation of the OrderPrice/ProductPrice to do the following:
- Rate any onetime and recurring fees that result from orders or ongoing product ownership (onetime could be OrderPrice, recurring will likely be ProductPrice)
- Rate accumulative usage according to any relevant usage-type ProductPrice
All these rates are AppliedCustomerBillingRates.
Is it clearer?
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Jonathan Goldberg
Amdocs Management Limited
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Original Message:
Sent: Jan 18, 2021 14:33
From: Yilin Chen
Subject: Which API could be 'Charge' fit in?
Thank you!
After go through TMF678, my understanding is "Applied Customer Billing Rate resource" is what we can use to create POST operations to apply charge.
However, "customer billing rate" seems as atomy of each billing, which could indicator what item(s) has been calculated into specific bill, then I go back check but cannot find it on "Customer Bill resource" diagram.
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Yilin Chen
TELUS
Original Message:
Sent: Jan 14, 2021 16:36
From: Koen Peeters
Subject: Which API could be 'Charge' fit in?
Hi Chen,
Have a look at TMF678 Customer Bill Management
Regards
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Koen Peeters
Ciminko Luxembourg
Original Message:
Sent: Jan 13, 2021 15:50
From: Yilin Chen
Subject: Which API could be 'Charge' fit in?
Hi
I am working for a tele company and we have bunch of services to perform charges to customer's billing, such as roaming data, connection fee, etc. Based on SID, it close to Customer domain and in API, we think it should close to billing, but we cannot find corresponding operations in TMF678CustomerBillManagement. Another thinking is it might close to TMF676PaymentManagement, however 'payment' doesn't equal to 'charge', one is for pay immediately while another is like set arrangement to billing.
Could anyone help? Thanks advance~
yilin
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Yilin Chen
TELUS
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