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, ensure:

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

    You need Charge-Based Billing is required to see subscription line charge pricing details.

    You can check the following boxes for optional features:

    • Add-on Items

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

      With Time-Based Pricing enabled, you can use the Subscription Billing Enhanced UI SuiteApp. This SuiteApp has the same Time-Based Pricing as SuiteBilling, but with a better 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, for creating and managing invoice groups. You can group multiple invoices before sending them to a customer.

    • Commit Plus Overage, for charging prepayment for a contracted minimum usage amount at a negotiated rate.

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

    • Uplift Pricing, for creating 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:

    • Departments

    • Locations

    • Classes

  5. Click Save.

Enabling the Multi-Subsidiary Customer Feature for SuiteBilling

With billing accounts across subsidiaries, you can use the Multi-Subsidiary Customer feature. 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 isn't automatically populated on the Subscription record.

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