Pricing Model Enhancements

The following pricing model capabilities have been introduced for atomic product offering :

• Allowance consumption model - You should now be able to model the allowance based consumption discount for simple product offering through adjustments as it has been introduced as a new model type. 
  • Allowance consumption discount help you consume the allowances first and once exhausted lets you charge customers a fee for it. In earlier releases only when you configure allowances in the product offering price and enable auto creation model of balance consumption model, it was being created.
  • The consumption model would have a usage fee configured where you charge for the usage and then have a discount configured which checks if there is an allowance balance in the subscriber account then use that and credit back the monetary part. If there is no allowance balance, then the customer is debited or charged a fee.
  • Example : Monthly recurring subscription fee grants 100 off network minutes allowance valid for 1 month and 50 on network minutes valid for one month through Wireless product offering. Usage fee is configured to use attribute based pricing using value map zoning. Wireless product offering of type discount is used to consume the allowances granted through the Wireless product offering.
• Additional recurring fee types - You should now be able to add recurring fees of type cycle arrear and cycle forward arrear in addition to the existing cycle fees.
• Additional one time fee types - When configuring one time fees you would now be able to qualify the fee type as purchase, cancel or any other custom defined type. For custom defined type modify the lookup ORA_ATC_ONE_TIME_FEE_TYPE.

The following pricing model capabilities have been added in Launch for bundle offering -

• Attribute based adjustments - Ability to configure attribute-based adjustments on bundle offering using product specification characteristics. Ex - Supremo Lite gets a price adjustment of 10% at the bundle level using attribute-based adjustment with product specification characteristic Speed.

The following figure shows the allowance consumption model 

Consumption model

The following figure shows the additional recurring fee types

Addition cycle fee types

The business benefit of this is additional product offering price modelling constructs that can be published to runtime applications resulting in faster time to market.

Steps to Enable

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

Access Requirements

• Communications Catalog Product Manager
• Communications Catalog Administrator