Bill Cycle Processing Features and Functions

• Parameterized and schedule-driven bill cycle processing


• Robust and fully recoverable bill cycle processing


• Stopping and restarting of bill cycle processing at logical points


• Re-processing of a billing cycle in order to accommodate new billing or customer data


• Configurable rounding of charges, and the ability to carry forward of any non-charged amount to the next billing cycle


• Automated bill reconciliation process to check that all charges in the processed bill cycle were billed


• Identification of any discrepancies found in the reconciliation process, investigation of these discrepancies, and reporting on any discrepancy found


• Viewing of billing cycle totals


• Normal use of a monthly or bimonthly billing cycle for subscriber billing, but use of multiple cycle billing and out-of-cycle on demand billing as per a request from the customer, i.e., hot billing


• Inclusion of all transactions that have arisen since the last bill run


• Dates for bill runs that can be defined in any language supported


• Assignment of new customer accounts to the most appropriate billing cycle based on the customer profile


• Overlapping billing cycles


• Easy transfer of customers from one billing cycle to another


• Automatic or manual bulk transfers of customers' accounts between billing cycles


• Marking of customers whose billing cycle should not be changed


• Exclusion of event records from an indefinite number of days before the date of the actual bill run, and then run them in the next bill run


• Definition of two or more billing cycles on the same date in a month