Preface

This book describes how to configure and run billing in an Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) system.

Audience

This document is intended for operations personnel and system administrators.

Accessing Oracle Communications Documentation

BRM documentation and additional Oracle documentation; such as Oracle Database documentation, is available from Oracle Help Center:

http://docs.oracle.com

Additional Oracle Communications documentation is available from the Oracle software delivery Web site:

https://edelivery.oracle.com

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Document Revision History

The following table lists the revision history for this book.

Version	Date	Description
E16696-01	November 2011	Initial release.
E16696-02	May 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 1. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16696-03	December 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 3. Made minor formatting and text changes. Added the "Updating the pin.conf File to Use Payment Terms" section.
E16696-04	March 2013	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 4. Made minor formatting and text changes. Added the "Assigning Bill Items to Event Balance Impacts", "How Batch Rating Assigns Custom Bill Items to Events for Balance Impacts", "Creating a Batch Rating iScript for Balance Impacts", "Creating Custom Sponsored Bill Items", and "Splitting Sponsored Charges into Multiple Items" sections. Added the "Setting up Billing in Subordinate Hierarchies" section. Replaced multidatabase information with multischema information.
E16696-05	July 2013	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 5. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16696-06	February 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 7. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16696-07	May 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 8. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16696-08	August 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 9. Made minor formatting and text changes. Added the "Using Two Events to Prorate Charges for Products Whose Validity Ends in First Cycle" section. Multiple updates in "Managing Bill Units with Your Custom Application". In the "pin_bill_accts" utility section, added SEPA to the Payment Method ID table. Added two parameters for trial billing in the "pin_trial_bill_accts" utility section.
E16696-09	January 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 11. Made minor formatting and text changes. Updated "How Pipeline Manager Triggers Billing".
E16696-10	June 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 12. Made minor formatting and text changes. Updated the following sections: About Automatic Bill Suppression Assigning Item Tags Based on Event and Service Combinations Mapping Item Tags to Item Types load_config_item_tags load_config_item_types
E16696-11	August 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Maintenance Patch Set 1. Updated the "Purging Trial Invoices" section.
E16696-12	December 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 14. Added the "About Time-Stamp Rounding" section. Updated the following sections: Setting the Minimum Amount to Charge Enabling Product Priority While Applying Cycle Fees
E16696-13	August 2016	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 16. Updated the following sections: Exceptions to Bill Suppression About Actions Performed at the End of a Billing Cycle About Accounting Cycles
E16696-14	August 2017	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 19. Added the following section: Enabling BRM to Apply Proration Rules
E16696-15	December 2019	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 23. Updated the following section: Mapping Item Tags to Item Types