Bill Cycle Change
CMP
Converged Monetisation Platform. The MDS Global product that supports customer care and billing for digital service providers. supports bill cycle change through AgentView The graphical user interface of the CMP that is typically used by Customer Service Agents to access CMP customer and billing data. In versions prior to CMP 8.0, this was called the CMP GUI. and SOAP. A bill cycle change applies only to postpaid subscribers and any shared groups of which the post-paid subscriber The end user of a network. is an owner.
When a bill cycle is set as part of a subscriber creation, the bill cycle can be overridden by the agent as part of the installation. The bill cycle set at this point will be used when creating the subscriber on the OCS even if the connection is delayed beyond the point that the 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 was created in CMP. The bill cycle is always obtained from the subscription's 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..
A bill cycle change can be performed at any point during the lifecycle of the customer In the context of the Cloud Monetisation Platform, an individual or organisation who has signed an agreement to take goods and services from a service provider. A customer receives a bill associated with one or more subscriptions, and can be a single end user or a large company with many subscriptions assigned to one agreement. and can be changed to a later or earlier cycle date.
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'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 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.
When the new records are due to come into effect, this job is triggered to update CMP allowance and spend cap records to refer to the new records.
Job Priority: NORMAL
The following daemons are associated with Bill Cycle Change:
| Type | Category | Activity | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transmission | Provisioning | Openet Bill Cycle adaptor | The adapter that communicates to the Openet network to execute network commands. |
| Load | Provisioning | From Generic Format (Bill Cycle Change) | This daemon loads details of spend cap and allowance records that were created or updated on the OCS as a result of a bill cycle change. A dedicated job will subsequently reconcile these OCS records with CMP allowance and spend cap records. |
| Extract | Provisioning | To Generic Format (Bill Cycle Change) | This daemon creates and encrypts generic CMP files, which are available for conversion to third party format. |
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