Designing Your Bill Segment Types

Example Service Agreement Types

The following table contains a subset of the SA types listed under Defining Service Agreement Types and Designing Your SA Types And Start Options For Sub SAs and Designing SA Types For Service Provider Financial Settlements. However, if you are reading this document from top to bottom, you probably don't know what your SA types are (they are only designed much later) and will have to forestall this task until that time.

We're going to cheat and assume you know what your SA types are and fill in the algorithms necessary to create bill segments for each SA type. After this table is complete, we will look for unique combinations of the 4 algorithms and create a bill segment type for each one.

Note:

Before you can fill in the columns for your own SA types, you should be comfortable with the descriptions of the algorithms described under Setting Up Bill Segment Types.


Div. SA Type	Calculation Algorithm	FT Algorithm	Consumption Algorithm	Auto Cancel Algorithm
CA/G-RES	Apply Rate	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption from SPs	Auto Cancel Bad Estimates
CA/G-COM	Apply Rate	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption from SPs	NA - can’t estimate consumption.
CA/G-IND	Apply Rate	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption from SPs	NA - can’t estimate consumption.
CA/CABLE	Apply Rate	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption from SPs	NA - can’t estimate consumption.
CA/E-COY	Apply Rate	Payoff = 0 / Current = 0	Get Consumption from SPs	NA - can’t estimate consumption.
CA/E-RESU	Apply Rate To Usage Request	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption Using Usage Request	NA - can’t estimate consumption.
CA/E-COMU	Apply Rate To Usage Request	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption Using Usage Request	NA - can’t estimate consumption.
CA/WO-STD	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable
CA/WO-LIA	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable
CA/CHARITY	Recurring Charge	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed
CA/PA-REGU	Recurring Charge With Auto Stop	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed
CA/MERCH-I	Recurring Charge For Amount To Bill	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed
CA/DEP-I	Recurring Charge For Amount To Bill	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed
CA/ONETIME	Billable Charge	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed
CA/OVR UNDR	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable
CA/E-SUB ENR	Apply Rate	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due
CA/E-SUB BC	Billable Charge	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed
CA/E-FIN SETTL	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable

Algorithm Combinations

Now, we’ll extract unique combinations of the four algorithms and create a bill segment type for each.


Bill Segment Type	Calculation Algorithm	FT Algorithm	Consumption Algorithm	Auto Cancel Algorithm
BD RATED	Apply Rate To Usage Request	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption Using Usage Request	NA - can’t estimate consumption.
BILLCHRG	Billable Charge	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed
COMPUSAG	Apply Rate To Usage Request	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	Get Consumption Using Usage Request	N/A - no consumption is needed
RECUR	Recurring Charge	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed
RECUR AS	Recurring Charge With Auto Stop	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed
RECURATB	Recurring Charge For Amount To Bill	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed
SUB RATE	Apply Rate	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption From Master Bill Segment	N/A - rated sub service agreements are cancelled when their master is canceled.
SUB BC	Billable Charge	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed

Sample Service Agreement Types and Bill Segment Types

Just to make sure everything has been designed appropriately, we will return to our SA type samples and specify their respective bill segment types:


Div. SA Type	Calculation Algorithm	FT Algorithm	Consumption Algorithm	Auto Cancel Algorithm	Bill Segment Type
CA/G-RES	Apply Rate	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption from SPs	Auto Cancel Bad Estimates	SP-RATED
CA/G-COM	Apply Rate	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption from SPs	Auto Cancel Bad Estimates	NOESTRAT
CA/E-RES	Apply Rate To Usage Request	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption Using Usage Request	NA - can’t estimate consumption.	BD RATED
CA/E-COM	Apply Rate To Usage Request	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption Using Usage Request	NA - can’t estimate consumption.	BD RATED
CA/G-IND	Apply Rate	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption from SPs	Auto Cancel Bad Estimates	NOESTRAT
CA/CABLE	Apply Rate	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption from SPs	Auto Cancel Bad Estimates	SP-RATED
CA/E-COY	Apply Rate	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed.	N/A - no consumption is needed.	COMPUSAG
CA/WO-STD	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable
CA/WO-LIA	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable
CA/CHARITY	Recurring Charge	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed	RECUR
CA/PA-REGU	Recurring Charge With Auto Stop	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed	RECUR-AS
CA/MERCH-I	Recurring Charge For Amount To Bill	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed	RECUR-AS
CA/DEP-I	Recurring Charge For Amount To Bill	Payoff = 0 / Current = Bill Amount	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed	RECURATB
CA/ONETIME	Billable Charge	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed	BILLCHRG
CA/OVR UNDR	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable
CA/E-SUB ENR	Apply Rate	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	Get Consumption From Master Bill Segment	N/A - rated sub service agreements are cancelled when their master is canceled.	SUB RATE
CA/E-SUB BC	Billable Charge	Payoff = Bill Amount / Current = Amount Due	N/A - no consumption is needed	N/A - no consumption is needed	SUB BC
CA/E-FIN SETTL	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable	N/A - non billable

And now you’re ready to set up your bill segment types.