billcycle-outbound.schema
In a real-time charging (RTC
Real Time Charging. Also known as an Online Charging System (OCS), a system that allows service providers to charge customers in real time, based on their service usage.) environment, when a post-paid subscription A billing entity that incurs a charge. Examples include a network attached device whose usage you want to measure and charge for, or a monthly software subscription's bill cycle day is changed, the external RTC system creates new allowance and spend cap A service for customers that applies a limit to how much usage a customer can consume outside of their allowances or bolt-on extras, preventing spending over a certain amount. records that take effect at the start of the subscription's new bill cycle.
These new records must be synchronised with CMP Converged Monetisation Platform. The MDS Global product that supports customer care and billing for digital service providers. records in order to allow for real-time enquiry of allowance and spend cap A limit on a subscriber's service. balances from CMP.
Following a bill cycle change, new records generated by the RTC system are stored in CMP.
Outbound records are formatted according to the billcycle-outbound.schema JSON schema A specification for JSON based format for defining the structure of JSON data..