Category: (2) TAM Application Type
Application Identifier: 5.13.2
Maturity Level: 4
Overview
The Billing Account Associations Management application
provides the necessary capabilities to manage billing account associations with
other entities.
Functionality
The Billing Account Associations Management provides the
ability to relate a customer’s billing account to other entities in a billing
system. Billing Account Associations creation can also be automated through
other application posting. Those associations are used in usage guiding, usage
rating, periodic bill calculation and production.
Those associations would enable:
- Price plan determination – associate a charge record with
the appropriate price plan.
- Shared allowances community – link a charge record to
shared allowance if exists
- Charge distribution to pay means –identify the related
prepaid or postpaid billing account for a given charge (recurring, one time,
usage)
- Replenishment relation – support automatic replenishment
of prepaid billing account from postpaid billing account
- Billing statement association – identify what charges are
to be included in the statement.
- Charge association to billing account – associate
incurred charge to the billing account liable for its payment
- Reporting – grouping charges/statement/accounts for the
purpose of creating a report
Supported Business Services
