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Preface

• Audience
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• Documentation Accessibility
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1 About Pricing Design Center

• Overview of PDC
• About the PDC Application Architecture
  • About the PDC and BRM Integration Process Flow
  • About the PDC and ECE Integration Process Flow

2 About Creating Product Offerings

• About Product Offerings
  • About Events
  • About Measuring Events
  • About Applying Charges to Events
    • Charges Based on Attributes
    • Charges Based on Quantities
  • About Balance Elements
• About Product Offerings
  • Example of a Product Offering
  • Sample Product Offerings
• About Charge Offers
  • Charge Offer Types
  • Making a Charge Offer Applicable to a Service
    • About the Service-Event Map
  • Specifying When a Charge Offer Can Be Purchased
  • Using Provisioning Tags to Configure Special Charges
  • Setting the Priority of Charge Offers
  • Restricting the Ownership of Charge Offers
  • Enabling Partial Purchase of Charge Offers
  • Adding Charges to Charge Offers
  • Specifying Charge Details
    • About Charge Categories
    • About Charge Types
    • About Associating Pricing Profiles with Charges
    • About Measuring Charges
    • About Charge Currencies
    • About Using Extended Pricing Features
    • About Cycle Settings for Recurring Charges
    • About Prorating Recurring Charges and Rollovers
    • About Charge Date Ranges
  • Configuring Pricing in Charges
    • About the Pricing Table
    • About Effective Periods for Pricing
    • About Quantity Ranges in Pricing
    • About Minimum Charges
    • About the Charges Tree
    • About Impact Categories
    • About Time Periods
    • About Charge Pricing
    • About Fold Charge Pricing
    • About Price Tiers
    • About Modifying Pricing without Inadvertently Affecting Other Components
    • About Conditional Balance Impacts
• About Discount Offers
  • Discount Offer Types
  • Applying Multiple Discount Offers to a Charge
  • About Mutually Exclusive Discount Offers
  • About Discounts
    • About Discount Categories
    • About Discount Profiles
    • About Billing-Time Discounts
    • About Applying Discounts Retroactively
    • About Snowball Discounts
    • About Discount Date Ranges
  • About Discount Rules
    • About Discount Filters
    • About Discount Triggers
    • Applying Multiple Discount Rules to a Charge
  • About Discount Pricing
    • About Discount Quantity Ranges
    • About Selecting Discount Quantity Ranges
    • About Configuring Discount Balance Impacts
  • About Discount Expressions
  • About Using Temporary Balance Elements in Discounts
• About Sharing Discounts or Charges
  • About Discount Sharing
  • About Chargeshare Offers
• About Zone Models
  • Alternate Zone Models
• About Value Maps
• About Selectors
• About Time Models
  • About the Effective Period of a Time Period
  • About Special Day Calendars
• About Bundles
  • Making a Bundle Applicable to a Service
  • Specifying When a Bundle Can Be Purchased
  • Billing Customers on Bundle Purchase
  • Aligning Validity of Balance Impacts on First Use
  • Permitting CSRs to Customize Bundles
  • About Offer Quantities
  • About Charge Offer and Discount Offer Status at Purchase
  • About the Effective Periods of Offers in Bundles
    • Setting the Effective Periods of Offers in Bundles
  • Specifying Discounts in Bundles
  • Creating Dependencies for Bundles
  • Transitioning between Bundles
• About Packages
  • Billing Customers on Package Purchase
  • Adding Bundles to Packages
    • Including Optional Bundles in Packages
  • Grouping Services
  • Tracking Balances by Service
  • Applying Credit Limits to Balance Elements
    • About Credit Thresholds and Floors
  • Specifying the Order in Which Sub-Balances Are Consumed
  • Transitioning between Packages
    • Defining Generation Changes
  • Restricting Discounts in Packages
  • Creating CSR Packages in BRM
• About Package Lists
  • Specifying the Package List Segment and Type
  • Specifying the Package List Status
• About Setting Up a Product Offering
  • Prerequisites for Creating a Product Offering
  • Example Product Offering
• About Using PDC to Create Product Offerings
  • Who Uses PDC?
  • About Using the XML Pricing Interface to Create a Product Offering
• Example of Using PDC to Create a Product Offering
• About Changesets
  • Changeset States and Statuses
  • About Publishing Pricing Components
  • About Importing Components into Changesets
  • About Exporting Components from Changesets

3 Working with Profiles

• About Pricing Profiles
  • About Default Pricing Profiles
• About Customizing Pricing Profiles
  • About Pricing Types
  • About the PDC Target Engine Profiles
    • BRM Real-Time Rating Target Engine Profile
    • BRM Batch Rating Target Engine Profile
    • Subscription Engine Profile
    • ECE Rating Target Engine Profile
    • ECE Subscription Engine Profile
  • Target Engine Profiles for the Default Pricing Profiles
  • About Associating Custom Pricing Profiles with Target Engine Profiles
  • About Importing Custom Pricing Profiles into PDC
• Setting Up Custom Pricing Profiles
  • Creating Custom Pricing Profiles
  • Associating Custom Pricing Profiles with Target Engine Profiles
  • Importing Custom Pricing Profiles into PDC

4 About Configuring Setup Components

• About Setup Components
• Configuring Setup Components
• About Configuring Service and Event Definitions
  • Using Service and Account Attributes with ECE for Usage Rating
• About Configuring Closed User Groups
• About Configuring Item Type Selectors
  • Loading the OOB_ItemTypeSelector.XML File
  • Configuring Item Type Selectors
• About Configuring Dynamic Quota
  • Configuring Dynamic Quota Selectors
• About Configuring Policy Specifications
  • Configuring Policy Specifications
• Configuring Dynamic Pricing
• Enabling Single Currency Graph

5 Synchronizing Setup Components

• About Synchronizing Setup Components
• About the SyncPDC Utility
  • Prerequisites for Running SyncPDC
  • About Configuring SyncPDC
    • Updating the SyncPDCConfiguration.xml File
  • Running SyncPDC
  • Scheduling Synchronization
    • Running SyncPDC Immediately
    • Running SyncPDC at a Scheduled Time
    • Running SyncPDC Immediately and at a Scheduled Time
    • Running SyncPDC at Recurring Scheduled Time
  • Synchronizing BRM Data with PDC to Use ECE for Usage Rating
  • Stopping SyncPDC
  • Generating Synchronization Reports
  • Handling Synchronization Failures
    • Reprocessing a Failed Synchronization
• Changing Display Names

6 Importing and Exporting Pricing and Setup Components

• About the ImportExportPricing Utility
  • About Dependencies between Pricing and Setup Components
  • About the XSD Files
  • Prerequisites for Using the ImportExportPricing Utility
• Exporting Pricing and Setup Components from PDC
  • Exporting All the Pricing and Setup Components
  • Exporting a Subset of Pricing and Setup Components
    • Exporting a Subset of Pricing Components
    • Exporting Only the Setup Components that are Mastered in PDC
    • Exporting Only the Setup Components that are Mastered in BRM
    • Exporting All Pricing Reference Objects
    • Exporting Only the Metadata Objects
    • Exporting Setup Components Modified After a Specific Time
    • Exporting Pricing Components Modified by Specific Users
    • Exporting Only Successfully Promoted and Transformed Components
    • Exporting Only Obsoleted Components
  • About Supported Pricing and Setup Components
• Importing Pricing and Setup Components
• Listing Pricing or Setup Components
• Publishing Pricing and Setup Components
• Deleting Components Mastered in BRM
  • Deleting Pricing Profiles
• Deleting Old Versions of PDC Components
• Obsoleting PDC Components
• Creating the Pricing and Setup Components by Using XML Files
  • Creating the XML Files

7 About Enriching Event Definitions

• Overview of Enriching Event Definitions
• About Charging Operation Types
  • About Charging Operation Type Versions
• About Mapping Event Attributes to Network Attributes
• Enriching Event Definitions
• Editing Event Definitions

8 About Creating Pricing Components by Using the PDC Web Service

• About the PDC Web Service API
• Prerequisites for Using the PDC Web Service
• About Creating or Modifying Pricing Components by Using the PDC Web Service
  • About Creating the XML Files
  • About Using the PDC Web Service to Create or Modify Pricing Components
    • CreatePricing
    • ModifyPricing
    • CreatePricingAndSubmit
    • ModifyPricingAndSubmit

9 Replicating Data Between PDC Systems

• About Replicating Data
• Replicating Setup Components Mastered in BRM
• Replicating Data Between PDC Databases

10 Pricing Design Center Utilities

• ImportExportPricing

11 BRM and PDC Terminology