In Subscription Billing, for monthly recurring charge, how to apply different rates on quantities?

[mnic_17]

Hello Experts, 

We want to implement a use case where Monthly recurring Charge to be applied with multiple rate options. Below are the use cases,

1. A Monthly recurring rate of 10 $ to be applied on 20 entities & a rate of 5 $ to be applied on 10 entities.
2. A Monthly recurring rate of 10 $ to be applied on 20 entities & a rate of "50% of base rate(10 $)" to be applied on 10 entities.

How this can be achieved in Subscription Billing? Please share your suggestion for the solution.

Thanks.

[boris_aljancic]

Hi,

I suggest to use subscription parameters to store the amount of entities in the subscription. You can define prices based on the subscription parameters. You can also change the amount of entities on a daily basis while SAP Subscription Billing is automatically creating pro-rated billing data.

Based on what you've provided I figure that volume pricing is best suited to cover your requirements. When defining prices using look up tables please select volume price and create corresponding tiers.

Further information:

• Volume pricing (and other models) explained
• Pricing Guide

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Boris

[mnic_17]

Thanks @Boris. If I understand correctly, using Subscription Parameters we can control the entities. However, challenge is how to configure multiple rates? Even though I changed the entity number, how to apply different rates? Is it possible to under one subscription or its mandatory to define multiple subscriptions if rate is different?

[stefan_kiene]

Hi @mnic_17
In general, it's also possible to define everything in one rate and make use of the conditional operators in your pricing element specfications.
You need an additional field/information indicating which rate to apply of course. 
And then e.g. use the string comparison.
https://help.sap.com/docs/PRICE_CALCULATION/53987d38467243e28cbeb8514d015666/1cb96febff5543b7a9087ef...

Best regards
Stefan