Title and Copyright Information
Preface
- Audience
- Documentation Accessibility
- Diversity and Inclusion
1 Running Billing Scripts
- Running the Billing Scripts
- Changing the Path in the Billing Scripts
- Running the pin_bill_day Script for Bill Run Management
- Handling Billing Failures
2 About the Billing Utilities
- Billing Accounts By Using the pin_bill_accts Utility
  - When to Run the pin_bill_accts Utility
  - About Bill Unit States and the pin_bill_accts Utility
- Prorating Cycle-Forward Fees and Canceling Charge Offers By Using the pin_cycle_fees Utility
  - When to Run the pin_cycle_fees Utility
  - Improving Performance of the pin_cycle_fees Utility
3 Setting Default Billing Properties for Account Creation
- Setting the Default Accounting Day of Month
- Setting the Default Billing-Cycle Length
- Specifying the Maximum Number of Months Allowed in Billing Cycles
- Setting the Default Accounting Type
- Setting the First Billing Cycle to the Day after Account Creation
4 Configuring Billing
- Specifying the Minimum Payment to Collect
  - Setting the Minimum Amount to Charge
- Customizing the Format of Bill and Invoice Numbers
- Specifying When to Apply Custom Bill Numbers
- Configuring Auto-Triggered Billing
- Setting the Bill Unit Status When Billing Errors Occur
5 Managing Billing and Accounting Cycles
- Specifying How to Handle Partial Accounting Cycles
- Configuring Timestamp Rounding
- Aligning Account and Cycle Start and End Times
- Defining When Billing-Time Discounts Are Applied
- Including Previous Balances in the Current Amount Due in Open Item Accounting
- Specifying Which Billing Cycle to Assign to Deferred Purchase Fees
- Calculating Cycle Fees for Backdating
6 Configuring Bill Now
- About Bill Now
- Providing Discounts to Closed Accounts When Using Bill Now
- Prorating Cycle Arrears and Cycle Forward Arrears for Bill Now
- Running Bill Now to Create Two Bills during the Delayed Billing Period
- Customizing Bill Now
7 Setting Up Delayed Billing
- About Delayed Billing
- Configuring Delayed Billing
- Configuring Auto-Triggered Billing for Delayed Billing
- Configuring an Accounting Cycle Delay Period
- Specifying When to Apply Cycle Forward Fees and Cycle Rollovers
- Enforcing Partial Billing in the Billing Delay Interval
- Setting Delayed Cycle Start Dates to the 29th, 30th, or 31st
- Billing Cycle Override for Delayed Billing
8 Configuring 31-Day Billing
- About Using 31-Day Billing
- Enabling the 31-Day Billing Feature
  - Switching to 31-Day Billing During BRM Installation
  - Switching to 31-Day Billing After You Install BRM
- Disabling the 31-Day Billing Feature
- Setting the Forward and Back Billing Options
9 Configuring the Billing Cutoff Time
- About Configuring the BRM Cutoff Time
- Configuring the Billing Cutoff Time
10 Configuring Billing for Groups and Hierarchies
- Setting Up Billing for Charge and Discount Sharing Groups
- Skipping Validation of Billing for Nonpaying Child Bill Units
11 Configuring Wholesale Billing
- About Wholesale Billing
- Setting Up Billing for Wholesale Account Hierarchies
- Enabling Wholesale Billing for All Accounts
- Creating Wholesale Accounts and Bill Unit Hierarchies
- Converting Existing Bill Unit Hierarchies to Wholesale Billing
- Running Wholesale Billing
- Configuring Billing Delay for Wholesale Hierarchies
- Setting Up Billing-Time Discounts for Wholesale Hierarchies
- Suppressing Bills for Wholesale Hierarchies
- Trial Billing for Wholesale Hierarchies
- Support for A/R Activities
- Specifying Search Criteria for Retrieving Items, Events, and Bills
- Moving Bill Units into or out of Wholesale Hierarchies
- Specifying How to Calculate Deferred Taxes for Wholesale Billing
12 Load Balancing Billing Runs
- About Managing Billing Cycles
- Implementing Bill Cycle Management
13 About Proration
- Calculating Prorated Cycle Fees
- Proration for Special Cases
  - Special Cases
  - Addressing Special Cases
- About 30-Day-Based Proration
- Using Two Events to Prorate Charges for Charge Offers Whose Validity Ends in First Cycle
- Prorating Cycle Fees after a Discount Purchase or Cancellation
  - Examples of Cycle Fee Proration
- Prorating Cycle Fees When a Discount's Cycle Start or End Date Is Changed
  - Examples of Cycle Fee Proration
14 Managing Large Billing Runs
- Billing Only Specified Accounts and Bill Units
- Splitting a Billing Run into Multiple Runs
  - Configuring Auto-Triggered Billing for Bill Run Management
  - Configuring a Split Billing Run
- Managing Bill Due Dates
15 About Bill Suppression
- About Suppressing Bills
- Automatically Suppressing Bills
  - Editing the Bill Suppression Configuration File
    - Sample Bill Suppression Configuration File
    - Validating Your Bill Suppression Configuration File Edits
  - Associating Bill Suppression Information with Customer Segments
16 Creating Custom Bill Items
- About Custom Bill Items
- About Defining Custom Bill Items
- Tracking Charges in Bill Items
- About Creating /item Objects
- About Assigning Custom Bill Items to Events
  - About Using Event and Service Combinations to Assign Bill Items
  - About Using Event Attributes to Assign Bill Items
- How BRM Assigns Custom Bill Items to Events
  - Cumulative Custom Item for Taxes
- Setting Up BRM to Assign Custom Bill Items to Events
- Assigning Bill Items to Event Balance Impacts
- Creating Custom Sponsored Bill Items
  - Splitting Sponsored Charges into Multiple Items
17 Creating Corrective Bills
- About Corrective Bills
- Corrective Bills and Billing Cycles
- Configuring Corrective Billing
- Billing Accounts By Using the pin_make_corrective_bill Utility
  - Post-Processing Actions for Corrective Bills
- Corrective Billing for Disputes, Settlements and Write-offs
18 Running Trial Billing
- About Trial Billing
- About Trial Billing for Bill Unit Hierarchies
- About Trial Billing for Sharing Groups
- About Trial Invoices
- About Collecting Revenue Assurance Data from Trial Billing
- Configuring Trial Billing
  - Specifying Accounts for Trial Billing
  - Specifying Bill Units, Billing Segments, and DOMs for Trial Billing
- Rerunning Trial Billing After Making Corrections (Release 15.0.1 or later)
  - Rerunning Trial Billing for All Child Accounts Under Specific Parent Accounts (Release 15.0.1 or later)
  - Rerunning Trial Billing for Specific Child Accounts Under Parent Accounts (Release 15.0.1 or later)
- Running Trial Billing
- Purging Trial Invoices
- Exporting Trial Invoices
19 Suspending Billing
- About Suspending Billing of Accounts and Bills
- Suspending Billing of Closed Accounts
- Suspending Billing of an Account's Bill
20 Setting Up Billing in a Multischema Environment
- Setting Up Billing to Run in a Multischema Environment
- Running Billing on One Schema at a Time
- Running Billing on Multiple Schemas Simultaneously
21 Remitting Funds to Third Parties
- About Remittance
- Setting Up Remittance
- Running Remittance
- Using Remittance with Multiple Database Schemas
  - Running Remittance on One Schema at a Time
  - Running Remittance on Multiple Schemas Simultaneously
- Improving Remittance Performance
- Using Remittance for Sales Commissions
- Example of Setting Up a Remittance Specification
- About Customizing Remittance
  - About Adding Custom Remittance Criteria
    - Defining Custom Remittance Fields
    - Specifying Custom Remittance Criteria
  - About Using Custom Ratable Usage Metrics to Calculate Remittance
    - Calculating Remittance Using Custom RUMs
- How Remittance Works
22 Billing Utilities
- load_config_item_tags
- load_config_item_types
- load_pin_bill_suppression
- load_pin_billing_segment
- load_pin_calendar
- load_pin_payment_term
- load_pin_remittance_flds
- load_pin_remittance_spec
- pin_bill_accts
- pin_cust_convert_wholesale_hierarchy
- pin_cycle_fees
- pin_make_corrective_bills
- pin_remittance
- pin_rollover
- pin_trial_bill_accts
- pin_trial_bill_purge
- pin_update_journals