Billing Lines for Free Goods or Services

You can configure Revenue Management to automatically create a billing line with an amount of zero.

In this case, when you import a revenue source document line with a unit selling price of zero into Revenue Management, the application automatically creates a billing line with an amount of zero. The Revenue Management-created bill line can then be applied to the performance obligation value, clearing the right to bill.

When a zero-priced transaction line is fully satisfied, Revenue Management generates a zero bill line only if no zero bill line was received from the source system to clear the balances in the contract asset and allocated discount accounts.

If you revise the full satisfaction status of a zero-priced transaction line, Revenue Management discards the previous zero bill line and the associated accounting, and creates a new zero bill line based on the revised full satisfaction date.

In the event that the source application subsequently sends in a zero bill line after Revenue Management created the zero bill line, the Revenue Management-created bill line is replaced with the source system bill line. The Revenue Management-created zero bill line is discarded and its accounting is reversed and replaced with the appropriate account for the source application bill line.