This chapter describes the components of the Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) Content Manager sample price list.
Before you look at this sample price list, you should be familiar with creating a price list. See BRM Setting Up Pricing and Rating for more information about creating price lists.
See "Understanding Content Manager" for information about Content Manager.
You can use the sample Content Manager price list as a model for your price list. The sample price list file (BRM_Home/setup/scripts/ContentSamplePlan.ipl) is shipped with Content Manager. BRM_Home/ is the directory in which you installed the BRM software.
Tip:
Make a working copy of the sample price list to preserve the original for future use.The sample price list includes two content plans and one remittance plan. Each includes one deal and one product. There are three additional content deals, each containing one product.
The Content Manager sample price list includes the following plans:
Basic Content Plan: Provides basic content access.
Premium Content Plan: Offers the same content as the Basic Content Plan, but charges customers lower premium content per access charges for a higher flat monthly rate.
Remittance Plan: Defines a remittance schedule for a content provider.
The Content Manager sample price list includes the following deals:
Basic Content Deal: Defines pricing for the Basic Content plan.
Games Deal: Defines pricing for a selection of games.
Premium Content Deal: Defines pricing for the Premium Content plan.
Remittance Deal: Defines pricing for the Remittance plan.
Reward Games Deal: Defines pricing for betting-type games.
Teen Deal: Defines pricing for content of interest to teenagers.
Figure 4-1 shows the main elements of the Content Manager sample price list:
This section describes the Basic Content Plan.
Default cycle forward events
Free content downloads each month
Pricing for premium and basic content based on a monthly and content purchase event
Pricing determined by content provider (pre-rated)
Plan name: Basic Content Plan
Basic content rating:
$4.95 per month flat fee
300 free downloads per month
0.10 cents for each additional download
Premium content rating:
Five free downloads per month
0.50 cents for each additional download
MCommerce (pre-rated content) rating
Rate determined by content provider
Unlimited pre-rated downloads per month
The Basic Content Plan includes this product:
Service: /service/content
Provisioning tag: ContentPackage
Default cycle forward event
Three rate plans for nineteen content categories
Resources used: US dollars, Basic Content Accessed, Premium Content Accessed
Rate plan selector attributes: Content category field, content impact categories
This section describes the Premium Content Plan.
Default cycle forward events
Free content downloads each month
Pricing for premium and basic content based on a monthly and content purchase event
Pricing determined by content provider (pre-rated)
Plan name: Premium Content Plan
Basic content rating:
$9.95 per month flat fee
300 free downloads per month
0.10 cents for each additional download
Premium content rating:
Ten free downloads per month
0.40 cents for each additional download
MCommerce (pre-rated content) rating
Rate determined by content provider
Unlimited pre-rated downloads per month
The Premium Content Plan includes this product:
Service: /service/content
Provisioning tag: ContentPackage
Default cycle forward event
Three rate plans for nineteen content categories
Resources used: US dollars, Premium Content Accessed, Basic Content Accessed
Rate plan selector attributes: Content category field, content impact categories
This section describes the Remittance Plan.
This section describes the Games Deal.
Deal name: Games Deal
$1.95 per month flat fee
Game rating: $0.05, $.0.50, $0.95, and $1.95 depending on game content category
This section describes the Reward Games Deal.
Deal name: Reward Games Deal
$1.95 per month flat fee
Game rating: $0.01 per game
This section describes the Teen Deal.
Deal name: Teen Deal
$2.95 per month flat fee
Game rating: $0.10, $.0.15, $0.95, $1.00, and $1.95 depending on content category
The Teen Deal includes this product:
Service: /service/content
Provisioning tag: TeenPackage
Default cycle forward event
Five rate plans for five content categories
Resources used: US dollars
Rate plan selector attributes: Content category field, content impact categories
Rate plan selector attributes: Single remittance event