Pool Contract
A service contract that collects the data of single contracts and recalculates the usage values of the single contracts. If applicable, the customer receives a credit.
There are two different types of pool contracts:
You can use pool contracts to periodically recalculate the usage of all assigned contracts (single pool contracts) or perform consumption billing for all assigned contracts in the pool contract (aggregate contract).
Specifically, you enter the following detailed information, which you have agreed upon with the customer, in the pool contract:
Percentage for single billings (single pool contract) or existing readings (aggregate contract) for prebilling the pool contract
The percentage is a condition that specifies when prebilling of the pool contract can begin. If you enter 80%, for example, then 80% of all the required readings for this period have to be available before pool prebilling can start.
Conditions for terminating the contract
During the term of the pool contract, you use the pool contract to:
Regularly start automatic billing
Check the pool contract's assignment (automatically ending the pool contract assignment when the pool contract ends)
The pool contract accesses all the relevant data in the single contracts for billing.
Note
Please note that you have to release a pool contract in order to bill it.