Pool Prebilling 

Use

When you run pool prebilling, the system conducts pricing again for the pool contract.In the process, the system considers credits with type “P” from the credit overview of single contracts. During pool prebilling, the system only selects usage items in single contracts for which regular usage prebilling has already been performed.You can define further restrictions to which usage items to use in the pool prebilling conditions. To represent the single contracts correctly in the results display, the system redistributes the calculated values to the single contracts after pool calculation is complete.

The billing process uses the data that has already been calculated in prebilling, only recalculating taxes in the process. The main benefit of the prebilling approach is that you can already use the values from the billing request items in your accounting system in order to post the accruals.Furthermore, prebilling is the only way to redistribute the values back to the single contracts.

Pool prebilling for pool contracts can be scheduled periodically through a batch program. You can use a second program to separate the redistribution to the single contracts from pool prebilling. We recommend this approach for large pool contracts, to reduce the load on the system.