Start and End Times for Billing

As you know, there is logic in billing to determine the start date and end date for a bill segment. Refer to Ways To Control The Start Date Of A Bill Segment and Ways To Control The End Date Of A Bill Segment for more information. When billing for a customer with interval data, the system also needs to know the time.

The time used by billing, referred to as the cutoff time, is stored on the service agreement. There is also a control on the service agreement called Start Day Option that determines which day to use for the start time. Billing uses the billing date, the cutoff time, and the start day option to determine the correct interval data to process.

Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing lacks knowledge of the type of meter installed at a service point. Thus, both interval processing period as well as scalar processing information is captured on a usage request. Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management (MDM) then uses the appropriate period to calculate bill determinants based on the type of meter installed.

MDM returns the true usage period used to calculate bill determinants on the usage response. This usage period is captured on the bill segment.