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Rate Plans with Tier-Based Pricing
Rate plans in Siebel eEnergy can accommodate complex product bundles and pricing schemes. Administrators set up root products with the Usage products as subcomponents. Each product must have a Service Type field set, such as Electricity or Gas, in order to limit the price comparison to the correct product category.
Administrators can set up the plans to reflect variations in service, region, time of the day or year (for example, day, night, weekends, summer, or winter), payment methods, payment duration, credit risk, and so on. The administrator can extend this list by adding attributes to the appropriate product class.
In this example, the rate plans assure full selection of all components. The pricing manager sets up electricity rate plans and gas rate plans. The different combinations of attributes give rise to different rates within the same rate plan. Table 13 shows several rate plan examples.
Table 13. Rate Plan Examples
Class
|
Root Product
|
Subcomponents
|
Tier Pricing
|
Attributes
|
List Price
|
Electricity
|
StandardWith
StandingCharge
|
|
|
|
$15 per month
|
|
|
StandardWith
StandingCharge
Usage
|
1-1000=$0.12
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Threshold
|
$0
|
|
|
|
1-1000=$0.10
1001-2000=$0.08
>2000=$0.05
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Peak
|
$0
|
|
|
|
1-1000=$0.08
1001-2000=$0.05
>2000=$0.03
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Off Peak
|
$0
|
Electricity
|
StandardWith
NoStandingCharge
|
|
|
|
$0 per month
|
|
|
StandardWith
NoStandingCharge
Usage
|
1-1000=$0.12
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Threshold
|
$0
|
|
|
|
1-1000=$0.10
1001-2000=$0.08
>2000=$0.05
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Peak
|
$0
|
|
|
|
1-1000=$0.08
1001-2000=$0.05
>2000=$0.03
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Off Peak
|
$0
|
Gas
|
GasWith
StandingCharge
|
|
|
|
$10 per month
|
|
|
GasWithStanding
ChargeUsage
|
1-1000=$0.12
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Threshold
|
$0
|
|
|
|
1-1000=$0.10
1001-2000=$0.08
>2000=$0.05
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Peak
|
$0
|
|
|
|
1-1000=$0.08
1001-2000=$0.05
>2000=$0.03
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Off Peak
|
$0
|
|
GasWith
NoStandingCharge
|
|
|
|
$0 per month
|
|
|
GasWith
NoStandingCharge
Usage
|
1-1000=$0.12
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Threshold
|
$0
|
|
|
|
1-1000=$0.10
1001-2000=$0.08
>2000=$0.05
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Peak
|
$0
|
|
|
|
1-1000=$0.08
1001-2000=$0.05
>2000=$0.03
|
Region=North
MeterType=Credit
PaymentType=Automatic Debit
Usage Type=Off Peak
|
$0
|
|
DualFuelWith
StandingCharge
|
|
|
|
$0 per month
|
|
|
StandardWith
StandingCharge
|
|
|
$15 per month
|
|
|
GasWith
StandingCharge
|
|
|
$10 per month
|
These complex rate plans are usually maintained in external billing and pricing systems. They are matched up with the actual consumer usage when generating a utilities bill.
