Open APIs

Hello Everyone,

As part of TMF 678 customerBill Management , Billing process applies or creates charges ( recurring charges , one time charges), discounts and taxes against the subscribed products and then aggregates the applied rates into bills sent to customers.

And if we want to view all the charges aggregated against the customerBill, My understanding is we should peform a GET operation on AppliedCustomerBillingRates as below

Say customerBill Id is CB-123 

GET /tmf-api/customerBillManagement/v4/appliedCustomerBillingRate?customerBill.id = CB-123

However we have a requirement where the appliedCustomerBillingRates are further grouped and aggregated to show a summary view to the B2B customer ( Only Summary view is presented on the PDFs) and they can drill down the summary view to get the individual appliedCustomerBillingRates using the online UI interfaces and this grouping and summarization is performed by a formating layer which runs after the billing process.

The output from the formating layer is what is presented to the B2B customer as their bill and we are planning to expose this output  as a customerBill resource ( i.e. the output of the formating layer) and use appliedCustomerBillingRate resource to also represent the summary charge,  even though this summary charge was not created by the core billing process rather it was created by the formating layer.

I would like to hear some feedbacks about this approach of using appliedCustomerBillingRate to represent the summary charge.

Hello Everyone,

As part of TMF 678 customerBill Management , Billing process applies or creates charges ( recurring charges , one time charges), discounts and taxes against the subscribed products and then aggregates the applied rates into bills sent to customers.

And if we want to view all the charges aggregated against the customerBill, My understanding is we should peform a GET operation on AppliedCustomerBillingRates as below

Say customerBill Id is CB-123 

GET /tmf-api/customerBillManagement/v4/appliedCustomerBillingRate?customerBill.id = CB-123

However we have a requirement where the appliedCustomerBillingRates are further grouped and aggregated to show a summary view to the B2B customer ( Only Summary view is presented on the PDFs) and they can drill down the summary view to get the individual appliedCustomerBillingRates using the online UI interfaces and this grouping and summarization is performed by a formating layer which runs after the billing process.

The output from the formating layer is what is presented to the B2B customer as their bill and we are planning to expose this output  as a customerBill resource ( i.e. the output of the formating layer) and use appliedCustomerBillingRate resource to also represent the summary charge,  even though this summary charge was not created by the core billing process rather it was created by the formating layer.

I would like to hear some feedbacks about this approach of using appliedCustomerBillingRate to represent the summary charge.

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Avinash Kenkere
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Hello Everyone,

As part of TMF 678 customerBill Management , Billing process applies or creates charges ( recurring charges , one time charges), discounts and taxes against the subscribed products and then aggregates the applied rates into bills sent to customers.

And if we want to view all the charges aggregated against the customerBill, My understanding is we should peform a GET operation on AppliedCustomerBillingRates as below

Say customerBill Id is CB-123 

GET /tmf-api/customerBillManagement/v4/appliedCustomerBillingRate?customerBill.id = CB-123

However we have a requirement where the appliedCustomerBillingRates are further grouped and aggregated to show a summary view to the B2B customer ( Only Summary view is presented on the PDFs) and they can drill down the summary view to get the individual appliedCustomerBillingRates using the online UI interfaces and this grouping and summarization is performed by a formating layer which runs after the billing process.

The output from the formating layer is what is presented to the B2B customer as their bill and we are planning to expose this output  as a customerBill resource ( i.e. the output of the formating layer) and use appliedCustomerBillingRate resource to also represent the summary charge,  even though this summary charge was not created by the core billing process rather it was created by the formating layer.

I would like to hear some feedbacks about this approach of using appliedCustomerBillingRate to represent the summary charge.

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Avinash Kenkere
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Hi Avinash,

I recently solved a similar problem as the one you are describing. Factually, we are instantiating a CustomerBill and record under it all the relevant details (e.g.: payments, total amount, external billing document, related party, ...). This entity should suffice to compute the general summary (GET /customerBill/{id}).

When you want to find out the details you can retrieve the ACBRs using GET /appliedCustomerBillingRate?bill.id={id}. For the master / detail view you are describing, this approach will nicely work.

Kind regards,

Radu

Hello Everyone,

As part of TMF 678 customerBill Management , Billing process applies or creates charges ( recurring charges , one time charges), discounts and taxes against the subscribed products and then aggregates the applied rates into bills sent to customers.

And if we want to view all the charges aggregated against the customerBill, My understanding is we should peform a GET operation on AppliedCustomerBillingRates as below

Say customerBill Id is CB-123 

GET /tmf-api/customerBillManagement/v4/appliedCustomerBillingRate?customerBill.id = CB-123

However we have a requirement where the appliedCustomerBillingRates are further grouped and aggregated to show a summary view to the B2B customer ( Only Summary view is presented on the PDFs) and they can drill down the summary view to get the individual appliedCustomerBillingRates using the online UI interfaces and this grouping and summarization is performed by a formating layer which runs after the billing process.

The output from the formating layer is what is presented to the B2B customer as their bill and we are planning to expose this output  as a customerBill resource ( i.e. the output of the formating layer) and use appliedCustomerBillingRate resource to also represent the summary charge,  even though this summary charge was not created by the core billing process rather it was created by the formating layer.

I would like to hear some feedbacks about this approach of using appliedCustomerBillingRate to represent the summary charge.

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Avinash Kenkere
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Hi Radu

Thanks for your reply.

Have you extended customerBill resource to also include the product and service details at the summary level ? And use appliedCustomerBillingRate to provide detailed view of the rated product and services.

Hi Avinash,

I recently solved a similar problem as the one you are describing. Factually, we are instantiating a CustomerBill and record under it all the relevant details (e.g.: payments, total amount, external billing document, related party, ...). This entity should suffice to compute the general summary (GET /customerBill/{id}).

When you want to find out the details you can retrieve the ACBRs using GET /appliedCustomerBillingRate?bill.id={id}. For the master / detail view you are describing, this approach will nicely work.

Kind regards,

Radu

Hello Everyone,

As part of TMF 678 customerBill Management , Billing process applies or creates charges ( recurring charges , one time charges), discounts and taxes against the subscribed products and then aggregates the applied rates into bills sent to customers.

And if we want to view all the charges aggregated against the customerBill, My understanding is we should peform a GET operation on AppliedCustomerBillingRates as below

Say customerBill Id is CB-123 

GET /tmf-api/customerBillManagement/v4/appliedCustomerBillingRate?customerBill.id = CB-123

However we have a requirement where the appliedCustomerBillingRates are further grouped and aggregated to show a summary view to the B2B customer ( Only Summary view is presented on the PDFs) and they can drill down the summary view to get the individual appliedCustomerBillingRates using the online UI interfaces and this grouping and summarization is performed by a formating layer which runs after the billing process.

The output from the formating layer is what is presented to the B2B customer as their bill and we are planning to expose this output  as a customerBill resource ( i.e. the output of the formating layer) and use appliedCustomerBillingRate resource to also represent the summary charge,  even though this summary charge was not created by the core billing process rather it was created by the formating layer.

I would like to hear some feedbacks about this approach of using appliedCustomerBillingRate to represent the summary charge.

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Avinash Kenkere
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Hi Avinash,

I recently solved a similar problem as the one you are describing. Factually, we are instantiating a CustomerBill and record under it all the relevant details (e.g.: payments, total amount, external billing document, related party, ...). This entity should suffice to compute the general summary (GET /customerBill/{id}).

When you want to find out the details you can retrieve the ACBRs using GET /appliedCustomerBillingRate?bill.id={id}. For the master / detail view you are describing, this approach will nicely work.

Kind regards,

Radu

Hello Everyone,

As part of TMF 678 customerBill Management , Billing process applies or creates charges ( recurring charges , one time charges), discounts and taxes against the subscribed products and then aggregates the applied rates into bills sent to customers.

And if we want to view all the charges aggregated against the customerBill, My understanding is we should peform a GET operation on AppliedCustomerBillingRates as below

Say customerBill Id is CB-123 

GET /tmf-api/customerBillManagement/v4/appliedCustomerBillingRate?customerBill.id = CB-123

However we have a requirement where the appliedCustomerBillingRates are further grouped and aggregated to show a summary view to the B2B customer ( Only Summary view is presented on the PDFs) and they can drill down the summary view to get the individual appliedCustomerBillingRates using the online UI interfaces and this grouping and summarization is performed by a formating layer which runs after the billing process.

The output from the formating layer is what is presented to the B2B customer as their bill and we are planning to expose this output  as a customerBill resource ( i.e. the output of the formating layer) and use appliedCustomerBillingRate resource to also represent the summary charge,  even though this summary charge was not created by the core billing process rather it was created by the formating layer.

I would like to hear some feedbacks about this approach of using appliedCustomerBillingRate to represent the summary charge.

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Avinash Kenkere
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Hi Avinash,

I recently solved a similar problem as the one you are describing. Factually, we are instantiating a CustomerBill and record under it all the relevant details (e.g.: payments, total amount, external billing document, related party, ...). This entity should suffice to compute the general summary (GET /customerBill/{id}).

When you want to find out the details you can retrieve the ACBRs using GET /appliedCustomerBillingRate?bill.id={id}. For the master / detail view you are describing, this approach will nicely work.

Kind regards,

Radu

Hello Everyone,

As part of TMF 678 customerBill Management , Billing process applies or creates charges ( recurring charges , one time charges), discounts and taxes against the subscribed products and then aggregates the applied rates into bills sent to customers.

And if we want to view all the charges aggregated against the customerBill, My understanding is we should peform a GET operation on AppliedCustomerBillingRates as below

Say customerBill Id is CB-123 

GET /tmf-api/customerBillManagement/v4/appliedCustomerBillingRate?customerBill.id = CB-123

However we have a requirement where the appliedCustomerBillingRates are further grouped and aggregated to show a summary view to the B2B customer ( Only Summary view is presented on the PDFs) and they can drill down the summary view to get the individual appliedCustomerBillingRates using the online UI interfaces and this grouping and summarization is performed by a formating layer which runs after the billing process.

The output from the formating layer is what is presented to the B2B customer as their bill and we are planning to expose this output  as a customerBill resource ( i.e. the output of the formating layer) and use appliedCustomerBillingRate resource to also represent the summary charge,  even though this summary charge was not created by the core billing process rather it was created by the formating layer.

I would like to hear some feedbacks about this approach of using appliedCustomerBillingRate to represent the summary charge.

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Avinash Kenkere
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