Override Price Item Pricing
You can override a price item pricing within the hierarchy to create prices that are specific to a customer or an account (also referred to as customer agreed or account agreed pricing). Using the Override feature, you create a new price assignment within the hierarchy.
Customer agreed or account agreed prices are effective for a particular duration and do not expire until you specify the end date manually. However, if you set the Expire Override Switch option type of the C1_EXP_OVRD feature configuration to Y, the system will automatically expire an agreed pricing when the agreed pricing of a customer or an account without end date is overridden. In case you do not want an agreed pricing to automatically expire when it is overridden, you must set the Expire Override Switch option type of the C1_EXP_OVRD feature configuration to N.
The Override Price Item Pricing screen allows you to override effective pricing for a price item that is assigned to a customer or an account either directly or through a price list. You can also edit the price assignment characteristics, if required.
You can access the Override Price Item Pricing screen through the following screens:
This screen contains the following fields:
Field Name | Field Description | Mandatory (Yes or No) |
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Price Item | Indicates the price item whose pricing you want to override. | Not applicable |
Description | Displays the description of the price item. | Not applicable |
Rate Schedule | Used to specify the rate schedule that you want to use while
defining price item pricing. Note:
Rate schedules control how the bills for the price item will be calculated. The Search ( |
Yes |
Price Assignment Type | Used to indicate the type of price assignment. The valid
values are:
Note: The post processing bill segment is generated when the Post Processing Sequence (PPSEQ) characteristic is defined
for the price item and when the price item is associated with another
pric item using the Price Item relationship
type.
|
Yes |
Effective Start Date | Used to specify the date from when the price item pricing
is effective. Note: The effective start date cannot be later than
the effective end date.
|
Yes |
Effective End Date | Used to specify the date till when the price item pricing
is effective. Note: The effective end date cannot be earlier than
the effective start date.
|
No |
Variance Parameter | Used to specify the variance based on which you want to define
the price item pricing. Note: This field appears when the Multi Price Parameter option type of the Multi
Parameter Based Pricing (C1_PPARM_FLG) feature configuration
is set to False.
|
No |
Price Item Parameters | Used to specify multiple parameters based on which you want
to define the price item pricing. Note:
This field appears only when the Multi Price Parameter option type of the Multi Parameter Based Pricing (C1_PPARM_FLG) feature configuration is set to True. The Search ( |
Yes (Conditional) Note: This field is required if the parameters
are mandatory while defining price item pricing.
|
Pricing Currency | Used to indicate the currency in which you want to define the price item pricing. | Yes |
Print Zero | Used to indicate whether zero pricing should be displayed
in the bill. The valid values are:
|
Yes |
Pricing Status | Used to indicate the status of the price assignment. The
valid values are:
|
Yes |
Ignore Transaction | Used to indicate whether the transactions mapped to the price
item should be considered for billing. The valid values are:
|
Yes |
Aggregate Transaction | Used to indicate whether the transactions mapped to the price
item should be aggregated for billing. The valid values are:
Note: This field is disabled when you select Yes from the Ignore Transaction list.
|
Yes |
Aggregation Schedule | Used to indicate the aggregation cycle. Note: This field is
disabled when you select Yes from the Ignore Transaction list.
|
Yes (Conditional) Note: This field is required when you want
to aggregate transactions for billing.
|
Rating Criteria | Used to indicate how and when you want to rate the transaction
legs mapped to the price item. The valid values are:
|
Yes |
When you select the rate schedule, a zone appears at the bottom
of this screen. This zone is divided into two sections. The section
on the left hand side contains rate components of the rate schedule.
Depending on the maximum tiering combinations specified during tiering
setup of the rate component, the number of rows are displayed in this
section for each rate component. For example, if you have specified
the maximum tiering combinations as 3 for a rate component, three
rows are displayed in this section for that rate component . The section
on the right hand side contains the tiering ranges per component.
You can add more than one tiering criterion for each tiering range
by clicking the Add () icon, or delete the tiering criterion
from a tiering range by clicking the Delete (
) icon corresponding to it. Tiering
is not applicable when pricing is flat (or non-tiered).
This zone contains the following fields:
Field Name | Field Description | Mandatory (Yes or No) |
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Sequence Number | Displays the sequence number of the rate component. | Not applicable |
Tiering Type | Displays the tiering type of the rate component. | Not applicable |
Rate Schedule Description | Displays the description of the tiering setup of the rate component. | Not applicable |
Rate | Used to specify the price for the price item. The value can
be positive or negative. Decimals are allowed. This value is fed into
the rate schedule for billing calculations. Note: The system provides
you with the facility to specify the rate value with a precision of
up to 18 places before decimal and 18 places after decimal. This gives
you the flexibility to specify very large and very low values for
the rates.
|
Yes |
Tiering Criterion | Used to specify the tiering criterion. Note: This field does
not appear when you are defining flat pricing for a price item.
|
Yes |
Price Item | Used to indicate whether the price item or bundle’s total
usage should be considered for determining the rate. By default, the
price item code for which you are defining the pricing appears in
this field. You can specify any other price item or bundle code, if
required. Note: This field does not appear when you are defining flat
pricing for a price item.
|
Yes |
Variance Parameter | Used to specify the variance based on which price item or
bundle’s total usage should be considered for determining the rate.
By default, the variance based on which you are defining the pricing
appears in this field. You can specify any other variance, if required. Note:
This field does not appear when you are defining flat pricing for a price item. This field appears when the Multi Price Parameter option type of the Multi Parameter Based Pricing (C1_PPARM_FLG) feature configuration is set to False. |
No |
Price Item Parameters | Used to specify the parameters based on which price item
or bundle’s total usage should be considered for determining the rate.
By default, the parameters based on which you are defining the pricing
appear in this field. You can specify any other parameters (where
the Pricing flag is set to Yes), if required. However, note that you can only select parameters
associated with the price item or bundle which is used for defining
the tiering criteria. Note:
This field does not appear when you are defining flat pricing for a price item. This field appears when the Multi Price Parameter option type of the Multi Parameter Based Pricing (C1_PPARM_FLG) feature configuration is set to True. The Search ( |
No |
From | Used to specify the lower limit of the tiering range. Note:
The system provides you with the facility to specify the lower limit value with a precision of up to 18 places before decimal and 18 places after decimal. This gives you the flexibility to specify very large and very low values in the tiering range. This field does not appear when you are defining flat pricing for a price item. |
Yes |
To | Used to specify the upper limit of the tiering range. Note:
The system provides you with the facility to specify the upper limit value with a precision of up to 18 places before decimal and 18 places after decimal. This gives you the flexibility to specify very large and very low values in the tiering range. When you define single tier with the maximum value as blank (for example, 0 to BLANK), the system will automatically replace the blank space with 999999999999999999.99. This field does not appear when you are defining flat pricing for a price item. |
Yes |
This zone contains the following buttons:
Button Name | Button Description |
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Save | Used to save the changes made in this screen. |
Cancel | Used to return to the screen from where this screen was called without saving the changes. |
Edit Characteristics | Used to edit the price assignment characteristics and their
values. Note: On clicking the Edit Characteristics button, the Price Assignment Characteristics screen appears.
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Related Topics
For more information on... | See... |
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How to override price item pricing | Overriding a Price Item Pricing |
How to edit the price assignment characteristics and their values | Editing the Price Assignment Characteristics |
How to set the C1_EXP_OVRD feature configuration | Setting the C1_EXP_OVRD Feature Configuration |
Parent topic: Pricing Management