Open APIs

Hi,

we have multiple mobile plans like prepaid, postpaid and hybrid. One product specification is not suitable for all mobile plans. So we created prepaid mobile plan prod spec, hybrid prod spec and postpaid plan spec. Multiple prepaid plan offers are based on the prepaid prod spec. Multiple postpaid plan offers are based on the postpaid prod spec as well. Only one mobile plan can be active for msisdn. When one plan is being changed, we should inactive the current plan and activate new plan in product inventory. So, I don't know how we register the plans in the inventory. Because product instance has no category, we can't classify offers like mobile plan. Product offer relationship is one methods. But how should we set relationship between the mobile plans? Or should we create one general product instance that has multiple sub product instances express mobile plans? What

 should we design?

Hi Myagaa

The plans are Products in the inventory, instantiated from the corresponding ProductOffering. So ...

• If customer moves between one plan and another of the same type (prepaid or postpaid), you would presumably preserve the Product that was instantiated from the ProductSpec, but make it a sub-Product of the new plan instance. Depending on the details of the offering (plan) you may or may not need to interact with the network and/or charging (e.g. allowance sizes might have changed so need to be re-provisioned). But the basics of the underlying service in the network presumably remain the same.
• If you allow customer to move between plans of different types (e.g. from prepaid to postpaid), you will need to create new Products from both the plan (offering) and the spec. The underlying service may need to be re-provisioned (e.g. to add or remove policies monitoring usage limits), but you'll still want to keep other aspects of the underlying service (e.g. voice-mail box).

Hope it helps

Hi,

we have multiple mobile plans like prepaid, postpaid and hybrid. One product specification is not suitable for all mobile plans. So we created prepaid mobile plan prod spec, hybrid prod spec and postpaid plan spec. Multiple prepaid plan offers are based on the prepaid prod spec. Multiple postpaid plan offers are based on the postpaid prod spec as well. Only one mobile plan can be active for msisdn. When one plan is being changed, we should inactive the current plan and activate new plan in product inventory. So, I don't know how we register the plans in the inventory. Because product instance has no category, we can't classify offers like mobile plan. Product offer relationship is one methods. But how should we set relationship between the mobile plans? Or should we create one general product instance that has multiple sub product instances express mobile plans? What

 should we design?

Hi Jonathan,

You mean we should have one product spec for all type plans. Prepaid and postpaid offers should based on same product spec. Then we register producet spec as parent product. All offers based on that should be child products in product inventory. Is it right?

Hi Myagaa

The plans are Products in the inventory, instantiated from the corresponding ProductOffering. So ...

• If customer moves between one plan and another of the same type (prepaid or postpaid), you would presumably preserve the Product that was instantiated from the ProductSpec, but make it a sub-Product of the new plan instance. Depending on the details of the offering (plan) you may or may not need to interact with the network and/or charging (e.g. allowance sizes might have changed so need to be re-provisioned). But the basics of the underlying service in the network presumably remain the same.
• If you allow customer to move between plans of different types (e.g. from prepaid to postpaid), you will need to create new Products from both the plan (offering) and the spec. The underlying service may need to be re-provisioned (e.g. to add or remove policies monitoring usage limits), but you'll still want to keep other aspects of the underlying service (e.g. voice-mail box).

Hope it helps

Hi,

we have multiple mobile plans like prepaid, postpaid and hybrid. One product specification is not suitable for all mobile plans. So we created prepaid mobile plan prod spec, hybrid prod spec and postpaid plan spec. Multiple prepaid plan offers are based on the prepaid prod spec. Multiple postpaid plan offers are based on the postpaid prod spec as well. Only one mobile plan can be active for msisdn. When one plan is being changed, we should inactive the current plan and activate new plan in product inventory. So, I don't know how we register the plans in the inventory. Because product instance has no category, we can't classify offers like mobile plan. Product offer relationship is one methods. But how should we set relationship between the mobile plans? Or should we create one general product instance that has multiple sub product instances express mobile plans? What

 should we design?

Hi,

we have multiple mobile plans like prepaid, postpaid and hybrid. One product specification is not suitable for all mobile plans. So we created prepaid mobile plan prod spec, hybrid prod spec and postpaid plan spec. Multiple prepaid plan offers are based on the prepaid prod spec. Multiple postpaid plan offers are based on the postpaid prod spec as well. Only one mobile plan can be active for msisdn. When one plan is being changed, we should inactive the current plan and activate new plan in product inventory. So, I don't know how we register the plans in the inventory. Because product instance has no category, we can't classify offers like mobile plan. Product offer relationship is one methods. But how should we set relationship between the mobile plans? Or should we create one general product instance that has multiple sub product instances express mobile plans? What

 should we design?