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Frameworx Application: Bill Calculation

Category: (1) TAM Application Type

Application Identifier: 5.15

Maturity Level: 4

Overview

The Bill Calculation application processes all charges against an account during bill cycles.  Bill Calculation can be executed both on a cyclic basis and on demand.  It performs bill invoicing, dealing with bill compilation of charges, credits, payments, adjustments, fees & taxes at various levels, such as product and/or account level that have been generated since the last run for that account. It could apply discounts.  Finally, Bill Calculation Management calculates bill totals and subtotals as appropriate. 

The pricing plans and discounts are determined based on the agreements for the invoiced customer or account.

Functionality

Bill Calculation functionality includes:

·         Performing charge and event distribution to support a split bill

·         Support various bill cycle intervals

·         Assemble billing information:   Pull together all the information to be included on the invoice, incorporating taxes, surcharges, and other fees and may include payments, adjustments, and other financial activities.

·         Apply pricing and discounting:   Apply pricing and discounting rules and algorithms in the context of the assembled information.

·         Fee Calculation:  Calculates and applies bill-time fees where necessary.

·         Generate an invoice:   Execute invoice generation according to operational schedules.

·         Billing Financials:   Create appropriate transactions regarding the current invoice for Receivables Management. 

Supported Business Services

Exposed Contracts

  • Billing Inquiry

  • Quotations

Consumed Contracts

  • TAX calculation

(1) TAM Application Type Bill Calculation

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Issues

  • Application Framework 12.0 Modification
  • Application Framework 13.0 Modification
  • Application Framework 4.5 Deletion

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This was created from the Frameworx 16.0 Model


Created from the TM Forum Model Frameworx 16.0.0 on 6/13/2016 at 22:30