Hi Ryan and Mukesh
In my view, the financial account is a way of rolling-up/aggregating balances from multiple billing accounts. In this concept, a financial account does not per se attract charges (applied customer billing rates - ACBR), and payments are not made against a financial account. This distinction is entrenched in the model:
- Product (inventory) and Product Order have reference to a billing account
- The payment entities are not related to financial account
It seems as if Ryan needs the opposite, some substructure that can attract charges but is not billed - the billing account is based on the aggregation of these sub-stuctures. Whatever these substructures are, they are not financial accounts, at least not according to the current understanding of the model.
Maybe some enhancements are needed.
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Jonathan Goldberg
Amdocs Management Limited
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Original Message:
Sent: Apr 11, 2022 01:45
From: Mukesh Kumar
Subject: TMF666 or TMF629 for Cost Centres
I think FinancialAccounts in TMF666 can help you model this behavior.
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Mukesh Kumar
Oracle Corporation
Original Message:
Sent: Apr 10, 2022 23:23
From: Ryan Ruckley
Subject: TMF666 or TMF629 for Cost Centres
We provide the ability for our customers to break down their bills into cost centres which will generally relate to internal departments within the customer.
We would like to provide an API method for customers to update this information and I'm thinking this should most likely fall within TMF666 Account Management.
Has anyone looked at this? A cost centre is like a billing account in that charges would need to be allocated to this.
Thoughts?
Ryan Ruckley
Enterprise Architect
Optus Enterprise
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Ryan Ruckley
SingTel Optus
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