Billing Plan
Schedule that contains the individual dates and periods for billing.
Usage-based billing is based on a periodic billing structure. You can bill the service contract separately from usage-based billing. If customers pay the contractual services monthly, but the usage-based component quarterly, several different billing plans are available. There is also a schedule for pool redistribution. This schedule exists as long as a contract is assigned to a pool contract. It may contain a deduction volume as the result of pool costing.
Note
Note that the administration of billing plans is not allowed at header level.
The billing plan for service billing must be synchronized with the billing plan for usage billing –that is, the start and end dates of each usage billing period must be identical to the start and end dates of the respective service billing period.
Example
You lease a copying machine to a customer, such as a copy shop. The monthly billing amount consists of two components: a flat rate that covers the fixed costs and a fee for usage (such as 1 cent per copy). You calculate the flat rate fee monthly and the usage quarterly. Therefore, you need two different billing plans in the system. The system bills the flat rate and the usage in two separate billing plans. The billing plans can contain both different periods and different billing dates (for example, billing the rental at the start of the month and usage at the end of the month). The important thing is that the billing periods are synchronized (monthly and quarterly in this example).