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Sales: Setting the number of days in a year and in a month

Description

Up to now, you had the option to atomatically determine date proposals for periodic billing plans and to let this be verified using a calendar ID.

As of Release 3.0E, in addition to this functionality, it is also possible to define the number of days in a year and in a month independently of the actual number of days. This has the reuslt that months and years are valuated in the same way.

Change system parameters in customizing

The new functionality is set in Customizing for the billing plan type for periodic billing in the fields Number of days in year and Number of days in month.

Example

A billing plan with periodic billing has a validity period from December 15th through March 10th. Depending on the Customizing settings, the automatically determined monthly contributions are different:

a) without calendar ID / without number of days in month
Jan + Feb = two months
Dec = (31 - 15 + 1) / 31 months
March = 10 / 31 months
b) with calendar ID / without number of days in a month
Dec = (31 - 15 + 1 - public holidays (!)) / 31 months
Jan = (31 - public holidays (!)) / 31 months
February and March in the same way, that is minus the public holidays
c) Calendar ID '_' / with number of days in month = 30
December 15th - January 14th = 1 month
January 15th - February 14th = 1 month
February 15th - February 28th = (30 - 15 + 1) / 30 months
March 1st - March 10th = (10 - 1 + 1) / 30 months

To determine the monthly contribution for the interval December 15th through March 10th, the contributions specified above under a), b) and c) are cumulated.

Note

If the Number of days is to be used, the field Calendar ID must be '_'.

Further notes

Further information on the billing plan type can be found in the Implementation Guide in the section "Define billing plan type".