Charge Plan Class

Business Context and Use

The charge plan class is the signature of a charge plan, i.e. the exposed data that are relevant in order to be assigned and used afterwards. A charge plan is the smallest charging unit available in Convergent Charging that takes part in catalog definition. Whereas a charge plan is maintained over time, the charge plan class remains stable.

Related Operations

You can use the following operations to perform actions on existing charge plan classes.

• Search for charge plan class description
• Search for charge plan class

Features

A charge plan class is defined by:

• An identifier which is unique in Convergent Charging.
• An owner, which is the name of the catalog it relates to.
• A status which can be:
  • open: the charge plan class is not yet released and is subject to change. It should not be externally assigned and used.
  • released: the charge plan class has been released and will not change anymore.
  • obsolete: the charge plan class is still released but should not be assigned anymore.
• Its description which contains a human readable definition of the charging logic implemented.
• A set of additional informations that helps to search for charge plan classes
• A set of parameters that are involved in the charging logic. This parameters are either mandatory, if no default value is defined, or optional, if a default value is defined.
• A set of counters that are involved in the charging logic.
• A set of accounts to be assigned.
• A set of user technical identifiers to be assigned.

Prerequisites

There is no prerequisite.

Integration

There is no specific integration information.

Constraints and Integrity Conditions

There is no specific constraint.