Hi Rafal,
- about "prepaid" and "postpaid" transactions
Whether a
transaction is "postpaid" or "prepaid" depends upon the type of the
account that has been charged: "prepaid" transactions necessarily come
from a "prepaid" account, while "postpaid" transactions are generated by
what we call "external" accounts (they are basically just postpaid
accounts).
A same subscriber account can hold accounts of different types, and can therefore generate both prepaid and postpaid transactions.
- about the number of transactions and BITs
The "transactions" that are counted are actually "charged items". These items are what you get from a charge plan, each time you execute a leaf component which generates an amount ("Flat" function, "Linear" function, "Macro" function, etc.).
Allowances can also generate charged items, if you enable the corresponding option in your allowance logic (in the "Allow" function).
Please note that "Free" functions and "No access" components do not generate any charged item, though. They consequently do not increase the number of transactions either.
As you already know, each charged item generates one billable item in CI.
You can consequently expect the number of "charged transactions" in the metrics and the number of corresponding billable items in CI to be the same.
There is a small caveat though: the counts are temporarily held in the raters' memory, and then saved once a day into the database by a scheduled process. If a rater is stopped before this process runs, the daily count for that rater will be lost.
Nothing can be done about that and you don't have to worry about it, since the discrepancy between the overall results will not be very large.
Still, if you think the figures are abnormal and need to be investigated, please open a BCP ticket on component IS-CC. My team will provide you assistance about that.
François
SAP Convergent Charging Support team
Bluesky
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