Adding a Price Item in a Benefit Pricing Rule Type

Prerequisites

To add a price item in a benefit pricing rule type, you should have:

  • Price item defined in the application

  • Values defined for the Invoice Type (C1INVTYP) characteristic type

  • The C1INVTYP characteristic type set in the Invoice Type Characteristic Type option type of the C1-ASOBLLNG feature configuration

  • Rule types defined in the application (where the rule type usage is set to Price Item Eligibility)

Procedure

To add a price item in a benefit pricing rule type:

  1. Ensure that the Price Items section is expanded when you are defining or editing a benefit based pricing rule type.

    The Price Items section contains the following fields in a grid:

    Field Name Field Description Mandatory (Yes or No)
    Price Item Used to indicate the price item that you want to include in a benefit pricing rule type.
    Note:

    The Search (The Search Icon) icon appears corresponding to the Price Item field. On clicking the Search icon, the Price Item Search window appears.

    On specifying the price item, the description of the price item appears corresponding to the Price Item field.

    		 Yes
    Bill To Account Used to indicate the priority in which the account should be considered while creating a benefit charge using the price item.

    On clicking the Add (The Add Icon) icon, the following fields appear in a grid:

    Field Name Field Description Mandatory (Yes or No)
    Priority Used to indicate the order in which the system should consider the account with the respective invoice type. Yes
    Invoice Type Used to indicate the invoice account type. The system will then consider the available invoice account type of the customer to bill the benefit charges based on the given priority. For more information, refer to the Bill Group's Account section.
    Note:

    The Search (The Search Icon) icon appears corresponding to the Invoice Type field. On clicking the Search icon, the Invoice Type Search window appears.

    Here, you can only specify a predefined value of the C1INVTYP characteristic type.

    		 Yes
    Note:

    If you want to define more than one invoice account types for a price item in the benefit pricing rule type, click the Add (The Add Icon) icon.

    However, if you want to remove an invoice account type from a price item in the benefit pricing rule type, clickDelete (The Delete Icon) icon corresponding to the Priority field.

    		 Not applicable
    Eligibility Rule Type Used to indicate the rule type using which you want to determine whether the price item is eligible for billing.
    Note: Here, you can only specify a rule type where the rule type usage is set to Price Item Eligibility.
    		 No
  2. Enter the required details in the Price Items section.
  3. If you want to define more than one price item in a benefit pricing rule type, click the Add (The Add Icon) icon and then repeat step 2.
    Note: However, if you want to remove a price item from a benefit pricing rule type, click the Delete (The Delete Icon) icon corresponding to the Price Item field.
  4. Click Save.
    The price items are added for a benefit pricing rule type.

Related Topics

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How to define a benefit pricing rule type Defining a Benefit Pricing Rule Type
How to edit a benefit pricing rule type Editing a Benefit Pricing Rule Type