ratePlanManagedExternally functionality for the Product object in SAP Subscription Billing

[cnorman]

The ratePlanManagedExternally functionality is mentioned here in the What's New section of the API Guide. Is there any more information about how this boolean can be implemented in SAP Subscription Billing as well as for integration with SAP Commerce Cloud or other systems?

https://help.sap.com/viewer/product/CLOUD_TO_CASH_OD/2021-01-13/en-US?q=ratePlanManagedExternally

I see this description in the API Business Hub but there's no mention of it in the Feature Overview:

If true, the rate plan of the product is managed externally, the market and rate plan information in markets and marketAttributesList should not be maintained, and ratePlanTemplateId should be provided. The ratePlanManagedExternally cannot be changed once it is set. Note that this field is used for internal SAP integration scenarios only.

[CarstenJ · Accepted solution]

This feature was developed for the integration of SAP Subscription Billing with SAP CPQ. In this integration scenario, rate plans are created in SAP CPQ and replicated to SAP Subscription Billing, but not assigned to the product in SAP Subscription Billing. The field ratePlanManagedExternally in the product API then only requires to store the rate plan template id in the product instead of the concrete list of markets and rate plans.

Once a quote is accepted and the follow-up subscriptions are created, the rate plan ids are provided as part of the subscription. These rate plans need to reference the rate plan template of the product.

The current standard integration with SAP Commerce Cloud is not affected.