Generation of Billing Datasets

Use

This function is used to generate billing datasets.

Integration

The system generates billing datasets when you confirm the item data.

Billing datasets are generated for an item and describe it in terms of billing and settlement.

See also: Conditions and Pricing

See also: Sales Agent Determination

See also: Contract Determination

Billing datasets are billed instead of items during billing.

See also: Billing

Prerequisites

To describe items in terms of billing and settlement. Billing and settlement are for instance to be described for an ad order with several advertisers or various ad specs.

You have made all the pricing settings required in Customizing:

See also: Conditions and Pricing

You have entered the billing and settlement data for the item.

If you enter an ad item, you must specify the sold-to party, advertiser, payer, bill-to party, booking unit, content component, publication date or copy number. You can also specify any positioning instructions and ad spec sizes, color schemes and designs required.

If you do not enter all of the billing and settlement data for an item, the system cannot generate the billing datasets or those that it does generate are incomplete.

If for instance you enter an ad item without ad spec data and this data is relevant for pricing, the system cannot determine a price. The billing datasets generated are incomplete. You have indicated whether ad spec data such as the ad spec size or color scheme are relevant to pricing in Customizing.

Features

The item type controls the rule used to generate billing datasets:

Item type	Generate billing datasets
AI,DT, CM	One billing dataset for each publication date and advertiser.
AD	One billing dataset for each publication date and advertiser and assigned booking unit. Date combination All schedule lines that are produced from a publication date at item level are combined as a billing dataset. Schedule lines that are generated manually The system generates a billing dataset for each advertiser and assigned booking unit in an ad item with schedule lines that were generated manually. It does not generate a billing dataset for each publication date.
OL	If you have not defined a date rule, the system generates a billing dataset for each booking unit and advertiser for the entire publication period. If revenues for online items are to be posted by period or several invoices are to be created within the posting periods, you must define a date rule for billing dataset generation in Customizing. If you have defined a date rule, the system generates a billing dataset for each booking unit, advertiser and calculation period determined. See also: Date Rule for Generation of Billing Datasets
SV	One billing dataset.

The system generates additional billing datasets if:

You have selected the Proportional settlement, Separate settlement schedule lines or Separate settlement by ad specs indicators in the combined booking unit master data.

You have selected the Separate settlement by sub ad specs indicator in Customizing when you defines the relationships between ad specs and sub ad specs.

See also: Settlement by Sub Ad Specs

The system generates an additional billing dataset for separate agency commission for each billing dataset if this is to be granted separately.

The system displays all billing datasets for an item in the billing dataset overview. The billing dataset that was selected in the billing dataset overview is displayed on the Details tab page at item level.

If you change the billing and settlement data in a document item, the system generates new billing datasets when you confirm the item data.

See also: Change Document Items