Chargeable Item Charging
Definition
Management of chargeable items and delivered charging services (offline, online)
Technical Data
| Software Product and Version | SAP Convergent Charging 5.0 |
| Technical Details | chargeableItemCharging |
| Namespace | http://schema.charging.ws.highdeal.com/ |
| Proxy Instance in SAP CC System | Dispatcher |
| Web Service Version | 0 |
| WSDL | https://<DISPATCHER_INSTANCE_HOST>:<DISPATCHER_WS_PORT_NUMBER>/chargeableItemCharging?wsdl |
| Endpoint | https://<DISPATCHER_INSTANCE_HOST>:<DISPATCHER_WS_PORT_NUMBER>/chargeableItemCharging |
| Application Area | IS-CC |
Business Context and Use
In your SAP 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.
Recommendation
In a hard real-time scenario, consider another technical interface of SAP Convergent Charging.
Refer to the SAP CC Java API Reference (Core Library)
for more information and user assistance about how to implement the Message TCP technical interface
in your system landscape.
You implement this process component (Web service) for the following business requirements:
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, you can use this process component
because it provides your with 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.
Note that in hard real-time environments, SAP highly recommends that you implement the Message TCP technical interface
by using or developing a client application based on the SAP CC Java API specifications.
Important 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.
Example
In an integrated SAP Solution with SAP Convergent Invoicing (SAP CI) in SAP ERP or in S/4HANA,
your installed SAP CI implements this process component to manage online charging in a soft real-time scenario.
See the integration guides for more information.
Refer to the SAP CC Application Help for more information about the
business processes and functions.
Charging
The Charging process rates (dynamic pricing) and charges received chargeable items representing customer service usages by calculating their monetary amounts, and by identifying 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 operations generate multiple data files (aka item 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. For example, in an integrated SAP Solution scenario with SAP ERP in SAP Business Suite or S/4HANA, SAP CC posts billable items and consumption items to SAP Convergent Invoicing (SAP CI). Refer to the integration guides.
Consult the SAP Application Help for more information and user assistance.
Included Service Operations
The following operations are related to the charging of past chargeable items:
The following operation is related to the charging of a chargeable item that represents the service consumption information:
The following operations are related to the advice of charge:
Offline Charging
Online Charging (Soft Real Time)
See here the technical details about these service operations.
Related Process Components
Features
Note You can only perform charging operations for charging contracts having an operational status set to active.
Prerequisites
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 SAP system landscape, you must configure the systems and the data (master data, business data).