Enabling SuiteBilling Features
SuiteBilling has a collection of features to enable.
Before you enable SuiteBilling features, be sure that:
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You are logged in to NetSuite using an Administrator role.
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You have set the SuiteBilling preferences as instructed in Setting the SuiteBilling Preferences.
For high-level overview diagrams of the workflows that include this procedure, see Subscription Plan Creation, New Stand-Alone Subscription Creation, and Subscription Creation from a Sales Order.
To enable SuiteBilling features:
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Go to Setup > Company > Enable Features.
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Click the Transactions subtab.
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In the Billing section, check the following boxes:
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Bill Costs to Customers
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Advanced Billing
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Charge-Based Billing
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Billing Accounts
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Billing Operations
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Subscription Billing
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Advanced Subscription Billing
Optionally, you can check the following boxes:
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Add-on Items
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Time-Based Pricing, which you use to create multiple time-based pricing intervals. For more information about how to use time-based pricing, see Time-Based Pricing.
When Time-Based Pricing is enabled, you can use the Subscription Billing Enhanced UI SuiteApp. This SuiteApp has the same functionality as the SuiteBilling Time-Based Pricing feature, but with an improved user interface. For more information about the Subscription Billing Enhanced UI SuiteApp, see Subscription Billing Enhanced UI.
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Commit Plus Overage, which you use to charge prepayment for a contracted minimum amount of usage at a negotiated rate.
For more information about how to use commit plus overage charges, see Commit Plus Overage Charges.
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Uplift Pricing, which you use to create uplift pricing intervals with an increase in price by the uplift percentage at defined times during a subscription term, extending a subscription, or at renewal.
Warning:The Uplift Pricing feature requires time-based pricing to be enabled.
For more information about how to use uplift pricing, see Uplift Pricing.
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On the Company tab in the Classifications section, you can optionally check any of the following boxes, to help segment your recurring revenue, for example:
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Departments
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Locations
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Classes
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Click Save.
Enabling the Multi-Subsidiary Customer Feature for SuiteBilling
If you have billing accounts across subsidiaries, you can take advantage of the Multi-Subsidiary Customer functionality. For more information, see Assigning Subsidiaries to a Customer.
To enable Multi-Subsidiary Customer for SuiteBilling:
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Enable the SuiteTax feature. For details, see Enabling the SuiteTax Feature.
Note:SuiteBilling does not require SuiteTax. However, if you want to use the Multi-Subsidiary Customer feature and SuiteBilling together, you need to enable SuiteTax. Nexus switching that is required to support multiple subsidiaries associated with one customer and the switching of Bill To addresses are best supported with SuiteTax.
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Enable the Multi-Subsidiary Customer feature. For details, see Enable the Multi-Subsidiary Customer Feature.
If the Multi-Subsidiary Customer feature is enabled, the billing account field is not automatically populated on the Subscription record.