Web Services

Chargeable Item Charging

process component

Definition

Management of chargeable items and delivered charging services (offline, online)

Technical Data

Software Product and Version	SAP Convergent Charging 4.1
Technical Details	chargeableItemCharging
Namespace	http://schema.charging.ws.highdeal.com/
Proxy Instance in SAP CC System	Dispatcher
Web Service Version	0
WSDL	http(s)://<DISPATCHER_INSTANCE_HOST>:<DISPATCHER_WS_PORT_NUMBER>/chargeableItemCharging?wsdl
Endpoint	http(s)://<DISPATCHER_INSTANCE_HOST>:<DISPATCHER_WS_PORT_NUMBER>/chargeableItemCharging
Application Area	IS-CC

Business Context and Use

In your system landscape, you want to provide offline charging services (OFCS) or online charging services (OCS) associated to the digital services offered by a service provider to its end customers.

Offline charging: Your system or application must be able to charge at a deferred time the customer service usage in batch mode. This process component provides operations for charging past chargeable items. Consider also the Recharging process component.

Online charging: In a soft real-time scenario, this process component provides business service operations for immediate charging operations (direct debits) and advice of charge operations. In a prepaid environment, consider also the Refilling Management process component. In hard real-time environments, SAP recommends that you implement to the Message TCP technical interface.

Note

Before the billing and invoicing processes in an external billing system, it is necessary to ensure that all periodic and one-off fees anterior to a reference date are computed by the SAP CC system. Consider the Activation process component delivered in the SAP CC Web Services or determine and implement another technical interface.

Charging

The acquisition process of SAP Convergent Charging acquires chargeable items from a mediation system and records them into a data storage such as the BART database, SAP Convergent Invoicing (SAP CI) in the SAP ERP system, or a third-party system.

The charging process rates (dynamic pricing) and charges received chargeable items representing customer service usages by calculating their monetary amounts, and identifies the accounts to charge for the service consumption and other fees. Depending on the type of the charging operation request, the monetary amount is either debited from the account or simply reserved for authorization.

The charging process generates data files for billing or invoicing purposes that the bulk loading process of SAP Convergent Charging can transfer to third-party systems such as billing or invoicing systems. In an integrated SAP Solution with SAP ERP/FI-CA in SAP Business Suite, SAP CC can post billable items and consumption items to SAP CI.

Included Service Operations

The following operations are related to the charging of past chargeable items:

The following operations are related to the advice of charge:

Charge a single chargeable item in check mode (blank charging operation)

See here the technical details about these service operations.

Related Process Components

Activation before billing and invoicing
Recharging
Refilling

Features

Note

You can only perform charging operations for charging contracts having an operational status set to active.

The operations of this process component do not provide idempotency management unless specified otherwise.

Prerequisites

SAP Convergent Charging is configured with the necessary master data owned by the service provider: a pricing catalog for the marketable service and customer master data (subscriber accounts, contracts, business data tables).

Integration

There is no specific integration information.

Constraints and Integrity Conditions

There is no specific constraint.

Notes on SAP CC Implementation

You must have installed and configured the SAP CC Core Server system.

Configuration

Consult the SAP CC Configuration and Implementation Guide to know the necessary configuration or customizing of the SAP CC system. Before implementing SAP Convergent Charging in your system landscape, you must configure the systems and the data (master data, business data).