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In the screenshot below, the rate day assigned to then MOBILE plan element is N-SINGLE and has an open start and end date.
7: Day Charge
Day charges are used to specify the charge depending on the day of the week (Monday to Sunday). Most of the times, a rate day has one single day charged which includes all the days of the week. Billing record's event date is used again to find the relevant day charge.
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If usage date is on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday the Weekdays day charge is considered by rating; otherwise it's Weekends.
8: Time Charge
Time charges are used to specify the charge depending on the hour of the day (00:00 to 24:0). Most of the times, charges are valid for the entire day: 00:00 to 24:00. The time in billing record's event date is used to find the relevant time charge.
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Day charge Weekends divides the day in three periods, each with its specific charges.
Step 9 - Find the Charge Items
The rating process will now look at the charges defined for the time the event took place. It would pick up the relevant charge and use it for rating the event.
In order to look at the configured charge items, double click or Edit the 'Time Charge'. In the 'Edit Time Charge' pop-up, the configured charge items are present. Please note that the charge item for the time selected should be present, otherwise there can be no rating and the rating would fail. In the screenshot below, both the 'Initial' and 'Recurrent' charge items have been configured.
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9: Charges
Each time charge can define the initial charge, the recurrent charge or both of them.
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Initial and recurrent charges are displayed in the Time Charge frame of the Edit Rate Day pop-up GUI. Alternatively, select one time charge and then click the Edit button on the right. This will open the Edit Time Charge pop-up GUI which configures the charge items that define the charges. |
10: Execute the Rating Method
Once the charges are known, they are given as inp
11: Successfully Rated Billing Record
If there are no missing or misconfigured items in each of the above mentioned steps, and they run successfully, then the rating process will result in the successful rating of the billing record. The output of a successfully rated billing record is an invoice detail line, linked to the original billing record.
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