Pricing Strategy Based on Zoning

You can now model usage price plans of simple atomic offerings based on value map zone model with attribute based pricing.

A value map is a hierarchical structure that associates zone names with values that apply to a single event attribute, such as an area code, an IP address, or a broadband bit rate. A value map can have multiple nested zones.

You use value maps in attribute based pricing to group event attribute values into manageable categories. For example, to apply the same charge to all calls made from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles, you might use a California Area Codes value map that includes the following zones:

• Northern California
  • San Francisco Bay Area
    • 408
    • 415
    • 510
    • 650
    • 707

• Southern California
  • Los Angeles
    • 213
    • 323

Instead of creating attribute based rules for all possible combinations of those area codes, you associate the California Area Codes value map with the attribute based pricing and then create only one rule in which San Francisco Bay Area is the origin call value and Los Angeles is the destination call value.

The following figure shows attribute based pricing using value map

The business benefit of this feature is you can use zoning to price your atomic offering usages.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

The value map needs to be created via REST API as a prerequisite for it to be used in the atomic offer attribute based pricing. Refer to the REST API documentation for more information.

Access Requirements

• Communications Catalog Product Manager
• Communications Catalog Administrator