Determine The Bill Period For Metered Service

First, the system determines a start date and temporary end date for the bill segment. These dates form the boundary of the meter reads to be included on the bill segment.

• If this is the first bill segment for the service agreement, the billing segment start date is set to the start date of the service agreement. If this is not the first bill segment, the start date is the previous bill segment's end date.
• As for the end date, it can only be estimated at this point (the end read determines the actual end date and this read is only selected a few steps later). The temporary end date is either the end date of bill cycle schedule window, the service agreement's end date, or, in the case of on-line billing, determined by the user.