Internal Offsetting of Zero Balance Bill

Oracle Revenue Management and Billing provides a new option type named Avoid internal match event creation for zero dollar bill in the C1_​FINTRANOP feature configuration. You can set the value of this option type to:

  • Y - Used when you do not want the system to internally match the debit and credit line items of a zero balance bill on the bill completion.

  • N - Used when you want the system to internally match the debit and credit line items of a zero balance bill on the bill completion.

Note: If you want to consider a zero balance bill for offsetting against another bills in an offset request, you should set the Avoid internal match event creation for zero dollar bill option type of the C1_​FINTRANOP feature configuration to Y.

If you want to configure the Avoid Match Event Creation for Zero Dollar functionality at Division level instead of applying the configuration globally at the System level, you need to do the following:

  • Create a characteristic type from the Characteristic Type screen with the following information:

    • Select Predefined Value option from the Type of Char Value list in the Main zone.

    • Select Division as the characteristic entity in the Characteristic Entities zone.

    • Create two characteristics values, such as, Y and N in the Characteristic Value screen.

  • Once the predefined characteristic type is created, add this characteristic type at the Division level in the Characteristics tab of the Division screen.

  • Map the predefined characteristic to the Division Char to Avoid Match Event Creation for Zero Dollar (AZDC) option type in the C1_​FINTRANOP feature configuration.