Open APIs

Could someone confirm my reading of the price coding in TMF622 and TMF679?
My reading of the spec is that a discounted price would be encoded as the original price and a price alteration block containing the _delta_ on that price.
E.g. if we have a tax-exclusive price of £50 with a £5 discount for 6 months would we have the structure below?

{"productPrice" : [{"priceType" : "Recurring",
                    "recurringChargePeriod" : "Month",
                    "price" : {"taxRate" : 20.0,
                               "dutyFreeAmount" : {"unit" : "GBP",
                                                   "value" : 50}},
                    "productPriceAlteration" : [{"applicationDuration" : 6,
                                                 "name" : "Summer discount",
                                                 "priceType" : "Discount",
                                                 "price" : {"dutyFreeAmount" : {"unit" : "GBP",
                                                                                "value" : 5}}}]}]}

I assume we can make common fields implicit - e.g. taxRate, recurring ChargePeriod?
Is there any convention for encoding the net price? I.e. £(original - discount), £45?

Thanks, Alasdair

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Alasdair MacLeod
BT Group plc
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Hi Alasdair
This looks correct, as far as I can tell.
I am not aware of a convention for reflecting the net price - one could argue that this could be delegated to an experience layer to do the calculation. You could of course extend the model to add the net price.
Hope it helps.

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Jonathan Goldberg
Amdocs Management Limited
Any opinions and statements made by me on this forum are purely personal, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the TM Forum or my employer.
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Thanks Jonathon

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Alasdair MacLeod
BT Group plc
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Original Message:
Sent: Jun 28, 2021 07:39
From: Jonathan Goldberg
Subject: Price and discount encoding in TMF622 and TMF679

Hi Alasdair
This looks correct, as far as I can tell.
I am not aware of a convention for reflecting the net price - one could argue that this could be delegated to an experience layer to do the calculation. You could of course extend the model to add the net price.
Hope it helps.

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Jonathan Goldberg
Amdocs Management Limited
Any opinions and statements made by me on this forum are purely personal, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the TM Forum or my employer.
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Hi Jonathan,

I stumbled upon this post and have a query regarding this. We are thinking of implementing this a bit differently. So, wanted to get your thoughts on the same.

In the current example:

Tax exclusive List Price = £50

PriceAlteration = £5 for 6 months

Net Price = £45

The structure that we are thinking would be something like

{"productPrice" : [{"priceType" : "Recurring",
                    "recurringChargePeriod" : "Month",
                    "price" : {"taxRate" : 20.0,
                               "dutyFreeAmount" : {"unit" : "GBP",
                                                   "value" : 45} //NET PRICE IS POPULATED SO THAT EXPERIENCE LAYER CAN EASILY CONSUME
                                                   },

                    "productOfferingPriceRef" : {id: ID of the PoP associated to the Product offer
                                                 href: reference to the PoP associated to the Product offer
                                                  //This can be used to retrieve the list price if needed },

                    "productPriceAlteration" : [{"applicationDuration" : 6,
                                                 "name" : "Summer discount",
                                                 "priceType" : "Discount",
                                                 "price" : {"dutyFreeAmount" : {"unit" : "GBP",
                                                                                "value" : 5}}}]}]}

Please let me know your views..

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Karthik Hallymysore
Oracle Corporation
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Original Message:
Sent: Jun 28, 2021 07:39
From: Jonathan Goldberg
Subject: Price and discount encoding in TMF622 and TMF679

Hi Alasdair
This looks correct, as far as I can tell.
I am not aware of a convention for reflecting the net price - one could argue that this could be delegated to an experience layer to do the calculation. You could of course extend the model to add the net price.
Hope it helps.

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Jonathan Goldberg
Amdocs Management Limited
Any opinions and statements made by me on this forum are purely personal, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the TM Forum or my employer.
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