Open APIs

Hi .

 Request your guidance to enable below use case with Open APIs.

 

• Customer would like to split recurring and usage charges among multiple "Customer Billing Accounts". (CBA)
• E.g.  National usage charges are charged to Employer's CBA and Roaming usage charges are charged to employee's CBA.
• Customer would like to define such configuration upfront and assign it  on applicable products when necessary
• E.g 1 : Charge split profile  1 : National usage and all recurring charges on Employer's CBA and Roaming usage charge are on employee's CBA.
• E.g. 2 : Charge split profile  2 : All recurring charges on Employer's CBA and National Usage charges & Roaming usage charge are on employee's CBA.
• Defined profiles can be easily assigned instead of defining same rules for each product.

 I reviewed "ChargeSplittingRule" entitiy and it is not clear for me whether split charge is applied on a finance account or customer  billing accounts.  It would be helpful if there is any usecase explaining the  usage of this.

 

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Uma Maheswar
Tata Consultancy Services
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Hello Colleagues ,

I would appreciate your attention and feedback on the above query.

Regards

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Uma Maheswar
Tata Consultancy Services
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Hi Uma,

I can only explain how I would set this up.

When charges are generated by the billing system they are booked on a BillingAccount.
The ChargeSplittingRule should split the charge on different BillingAccounts. In your example the ChargeSplittingRule would apply of some types of charges (for 100%) to the Employers BillingAccount and other charges to the Employees billing account.
The BillingAccount is part of the billing system therefore contains the detail of all charges accumulated.

Each BillingAccount is assigned to a financial account. When a bill is generated for this billing account (within a billcycle or by a once-off trigger), the aggregation of the charges is booked on the financial account. The financial account is part of the general ledger system (accounts receivable) and will also be used to receive payments.
A financial account can be linked to several billing accounts. This can be used if a company wants to receive separate bills for different departments.

Additional ChargeSplittingRules could be used apply commissions on a SettlementAccount of a partner. This could be used to devise complex commissioning rules such as 5% on recurringCharges, 0% on National Calls but 10% on roaming charges.

I hope this helps you in designing your own setup.

Regards



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Koen Peeters
OryxGateway
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Original Message:
Sent: Apr 12, 2022 17:00
From: Uma Maheswar
Subject: Charge Split Rules and Rule groups.

Hello Colleagues ,

I would appreciate your attention and feedback on the above query.

Regards

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Uma Maheswar
Tata Consultancy Services
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