1. Order Management
  2. Billing and Invoices
  3. SuiteBilling
  4. SuiteBilling Setup
  5. Enabling SuiteBilling Features

Enabling SuiteBilling Features

SuiteBilling has a collection of features to enable.

Before you enable SuiteBilling features, be sure that:

For high-level overview diagrams of the workflows that include this procedure, see Subscription Plan Creation, New Stand-Alone Subscription Creation, and Subscription Creation from a Sales Order.

To enable SuiteBilling features:

  1. Go to Setup > Company > Enable Features.

  2. Click the Transactions subtab.

  3. In the Billing section, check the following boxes:

    • Bill Costs to Customers

    • Advanced Billing

    • Charge-Based Billing

    • Billing Accounts

    • Billing Operations

    • Subscription Billing

    • Advanced Subscription Billing

    Charge-Based Billing is required to see the pricing details on charges generated by subscription lines.

    Optionally, you can check the following boxes:

    • Add-on Items

    • Time-Based Pricing, which you use to create multiple time-based pricing intervals. For more information about how to use time-based pricing, see Time-Based Pricing.

      When Time-Based Pricing is enabled, you can use the Subscription Billing Enhanced UI SuiteApp. This SuiteApp has the same functionality as the SuiteBilling Time-Based Pricing feature, but with an improved user interface. For more information about the Subscription Billing Enhanced UI SuiteApp, see Subscription Billing Enhanced UI.

    • Add-on Items is required to create a subscription without a subscription plan or price book.

      For more information about how to create a subscription without a subscription plan or price book, see Optional Subscription Plan and Price Book.

    • Invoice Groups, which you use to create and manage invoice groups. You can group multiple invoices before sending them to a customer.

    • Commit Plus Overage, which you use to charge prepayment for a contracted minimum amount of usage at a negotiated rate.

      For more information about how to use commit plus overage charges, see Commit Plus Overage Charges.

    • Uplift Pricing, which you use to create price increases for subscription lines using an uplift percentage at defined times during a subscription term.

      Warning:

      The Uplift Pricing feature requires time-based pricing to be enabled.

      For more information about how to use uplift pricing, see Uplift Pricing.

    • Prepaid Usage with Drawdown, a service type for when consumable services can be billed in advance, and usage is drawn down from the assigned service lines.

      For more information about prepaid usage with drawdown, see Prepaid Usage with Drawdown.

  4. On the Company tab in the Classifications section, you can optionally check any of the following boxes, to help segment your recurring revenue, for example:

    • Departments

    • Locations

    • Classes

  5. Click Save.

Enabling the Multi-Subsidiary Customer Feature for SuiteBilling

If you have billing accounts across subsidiaries, you can take advantage of the Multi-Subsidiary Customer functionality. For more information, see Assigning Subsidiaries to a Customer.

To enable Multi-Subsidiary Customer for SuiteBilling, see Enable the Multi-Subsidiary Customer Feature.

If the Multi-Subsidiary Customer feature is enabled, the billing account field is not automatically populated on the Subscription record.

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