19 Suspending Billing
Learn how to suspend billing for a select number of accounts in Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM).
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About Suspending Billing of Accounts and Bills
By default, BRM generates bills for all bill units in all accounts. When you run billing in BRM, active accounts as well as inactive and closed accounts are billed. However, you may have accounts or bill units that you do not want to bill. You can suspend billing for those accounts and bill units. You can later resume spending on suspended accounts and bill units.
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By excluding accounts or bill units that do not need to be billed, you can reduce the time it takes to complete your billing run.
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If you suspend an account, all nonpaying child bill units of the suspended account's paying parent bill units are also suspended.
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To suppress billing, see "About Suppressing Bills". Unlike bill and account suspension, bill suppression does not inactivate bill units.
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For information about another way to reduce the duration of your billing run, see "Splitting a Billing Run into Multiple Runs".
Suspending Billing of Closed Accounts
By default, you can configure BRM to enable or disable billing of closed accounts. When billing of closed accounts is disabled, BRM excludes closed accounts from the billing run when the following conditions are met:
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The account's total balance due for every bill unit is zero.
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The total balance due includes the totals from the nonpaying child bill units of an account's paying parent bill units.
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The account has had no billable activity since the previous bill.
To configure billing of closed accounts:
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Open the CM configuration file (BRM_home/sys/cm/pin.conf) in a text editor.
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Do one of the following:
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To disable billing of closed accounts, set the value of stop_bill_closed_accounts entry to 1:
- stop_bill_closed_accounts 1
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To enable billing of closed accounts, set the value of stop_bill_closed_accounts to 0.
By default, billing of closed accounts is enabled.
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Save the file.
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Stop and restart the CM.