Agreement
The CMP
Converged Monetisation Platform. The MDS Global product that supports customer care and billing for digital service providers. Agreement
In the Cloud Monetisation Platform, the entity that holds the instructions for generating the bills for one or more subscriptions. including the addresses and how often the bill is generated. controls how an Account
In the Cloud Monetisation Platform, a billing entity that can be used to manage payments on one or more subscriptions or payments for services. An account can hold details such as payments or invoices. and its Subscriptions are billed. The Agreement controls when the bill is sent, where the bill is sent to, and what the bill looks like.
An Agreement can be created at Group, Corporate or Account level within a CMP hierarchy. It is possible to have multiple Agreements in a CMP hierarchy, for example:
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- An Account has zero, one or more Subscriptions
- An Agreement applies to zero, one or more Subscriptions
- An Account has zero, one or more Agreements
- An Agreement applies to one Account (which may be a group
In the Customer Manager Platform hierarchy, the highest level of the structure. The group level can be used to group corporates. Groups can hold financial information. or corporate posting account).
If the billing requirements of each 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 are the same, they can be linked to the same Agreement.
If the billing requirements are different between Subscriptions on the same Account, the required Subscriptions can be linked to different Agreements.