Understanding Bill Cycles

Bill cycles identify periods when a customer is going to be billed and when bill determinants and other customer-related calculations are performed. Bill cycles and schedules are often imported from a customer information system such as Oracle Utilities Customer Cloud Service or Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter. In Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service and Digital Asset Management, bill cycles are used to define when program-related calculations, such as program incentives and program fees, are calculated.

A bill cycle has bill cycle schedules defined for it, which specify when calculations are produced for the bill cycle.

Bill cycles are defined by the following:

• Bill Cycle Schedule Business Object: The business object used to capture bill cycle schedules for the bill cycle.

• External System: An external system associated with the bill cycle, often the system from which bill cycle data is imported.

• External Bill Cycle: Ad ID for the bill cycle the external system.

• Bill Cycle Schedule List: A list of bill cycle schedules for the bill cycle.

Bill cycle schedules are defined by the following:

• Window Start Date The date on which the system should start trying to process calculations for metered services and program subscriptions in the cycle.

• Window End Date The last day on which the system will process calculations for metered services and program subscriptions in the cycle.

• Estimate Date: Not used with Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service and Digital Asset Management.

System Data

Bill Cycles are based on the following system data:

Bill Cycle Schedules are based on the following system data: