Create or Change a Prepaid Account

Business Context and Use

This service operation is used in the provisioning context, generally by a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) process component. The operation is used to create or to change a prepaid account stored in SAP Convergent Charging.

Business Agreement Management

Your CRM application or another provisioning system manages master data related to the business agreements between partners and replicates data in SAP CC by maintaining some subscriber data for end customers of the service provider. Data includes: Prepaid accounts and external (postpaid) accounts

Related Service Operations

You can use the following operations to perform actions on prepaid accounts:

• Create or change prepaid accounts in bundle mode
• Create or change prepaid accounts in mass mode
• Cancel a prepaid account
• Change the state of a prepaid account

• Read a prepaid account

Features

This operation maintains a prepaid account in a subscriber account. The prepaid account is identified by a pair composed of its ID and the ID of the related subscriber account. Two cases occur:

If the prepaid account does not exist then it is created.
If the prepaid account already exists then it is modified.

In the both cases, you are not allowed to use the following items of the prepaid account:

• The balance
• The currentState

In the second case, you are not allowed to modify the following items of the prepaid account:

• The currencyCode
• The stateSchedule

Error Handling

Refer to the information about error handling in the prepaid account business object.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of errors:

• The prepaid account cannot be maintained to comply with the object in the maintain request.
• A field such as the currency code is invalid.
• The prepaid account does not exist and a required field is missing such as the identifier or the identifier of the related subscriber account.

The SAP CC system may return an error stack that details the issue.

Message Types

Consult the structures of the message types related to this operation:

• prepaidAccountMaintainRequest
• prepaidAccountMaintainResponse

Prerequisites

The related subscriber account must exist.

Integration

There is no specific integration information.

Constraints and Integrity Conditions

There is no specific constraint.