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)
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 () icon appears corresponding to this field. On clicking the Search icon, the Search Rate Schedule screen appears.	Yes
Price Assignment Type	Used to indicate the type of price assignment. The valid values are: Regular - Used to indicate that the pricing must be used to generate regular bill segment. Post Processing - Used to indicate that the pricing must be used to generate post processing bill segment. This type of price assignment can be done on usage accounts. The post processing bill segment is generated when you generate the bill for the usage account and not when you bill the usage account through an invoice account. Post Processing - Invoice Based - Used to indicate that the pricing must be used to generate post processing bill segment. This type of price assignment can be done on an invoice account, and, as a result, the post processing bill segment is generated on the invoice account. Post Processing - Price Item Based - Used to indicate that the pricing must be used to generate post processing bill segment. This type of price assignment can be done on both invoice and usage accounts, but the post processing bill segment is generated only on the invoice account. 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 () icon appears corresponding to this field. On clicking the Search icon, the Price Item Parameters screen appears.	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 No	Yes
Pricing Status	Used to indicate the status of the price assignment. The valid values are: Active - Indicates that the price assignment is used for billing. Proposed - Indicates that the price assignment is used for quotations.	Yes
Ignore Transaction	Used to indicate whether the transactions mapped to the price item should be considered for billing. The valid values are: Yes No	Yes
Aggregate Transaction	Used to indicate whether the transactions mapped to the price item should be aggregated for billing. The valid values are: Yes No 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: Aggregate transactions and then rate aggregated SQs Note: This value appears in the list when the Ignore Transaction field is set to No and the Aggregate Transaction field is set to Yes. Do Not Rate Transactions Rate individual transactions and aggregate calc lines across transactions Note: This value appears in the list when the Ignore Transaction field is set to No and the Aggregate Transaction field is set to Yes. Rate Transactions Note: This value appears in the list only when the Ignore Transaction field is set to either Yes or No and the Aggregate Transaction field is set to No.	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 ( The Add Icon ) icon, or delete the tiering criterion from a tiering range by clicking the Delete ( The Delete Icon ) 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)
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 () icon appears corresponding to this field. On clicking the Search icon, the Price Item Parameters screen appears.	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
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.

Related Topics

For more information on...	See...
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