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Function documentationUsage-Based Billing

 

You use the standard billing functions in SAP CRM to create customer invoices to bill for usage, as defined in service contracts.

Usage-based billing is scheduled in a billing plan. Billing request items are automatically created for billable contract items and are transferred to the billing due list. You can then perform billing.

For information on the standard billing functions, see Billing.

Prerequisites

  • You have activated usage-based billing in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management , under Start of the navigation path Billing Next navigation step Configure Application End of the navigation path.

    Select the Usage-Based Billing checkbox, and save this setting.

  • You have activated the Business Configuration (BC) set CRM_UBB_BILLING (you do this using transaction SCPR20).

  • You have defined the billing item categories that you want to use for usage-based billing, and assigned them to the relevant transaction types and item categories

    You do this in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management, under Start of the navigation path Billing Next navigation step Item Category Determination Next navigation step Assign Item Categories End of the navigation path.

  • Prebilling has taken place.

    Billing is based on the values calculated during prebilling. Prebilling must, therefore, have taken place in order that the system can transfer billing request items to the billing due list. You need to release a single contract or the main item of a pool contract before prebilling can take place.

    Prebilling does the following:

    1. Calculates prices

    2. Performs pool redistribution for pool contracts

    3. Transfers costs and revenues to accounting

    4. Updates the credit overview

    5. Releases the billing request items

    6. Generates billing due list items