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Subscription Billing with SD Billing (Scope Item 57Z)

norbertsarfi
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Dear community,

we are modelling a product in Subscription Billing, where the customer pays a monthly fee in the beginning of the billing period. For that fee, the customer receives 2 credit positions that he can consume till the end of the billing period for specific usages. The invoicing takes places in SD Billing (Scope item 57Z).

An example: base fee is €3.000 per month, payable in advance. Then, 2 credit positions are created (recurring monthly credit). €1.500 for usage A and €1.500 for usage B.

The questions:

  1. How is it possible to setup that credit A can only be consumed by usage A and not bei usage B?
  2. How is it possible to setup that if a credit is not completely consumed, then the part that was not consumed, should be "lost"? Example: credit A is €1.500, usage A is €1.000. Credit B is €1.500, usage B is €1.400 -> Invoice amount is zero

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best regards
Norbert Sarfi

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annette_klute
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Hi Norbert, do I understand you correctly in that you charge the 3000€ upfront regardless of whether something is consumed or not? And if the consumption is below 1500 for each A and B, then no extra charges are incurred?

If my assumption is right, then you might want to consider creating 2 allowances instead of recurring credits. Allowance for credit A would have a different technical resource than the allowance for credit B. This way you make sure each one can be consumed only by the usage with the right technical resource. One backdraw is, though, that allowances can currently not be defined monetarily, but only in the unit of the underlying usage, such as 10 MB or 10.000 API calls.

If I did not understand your scenario correctly, kindly reply to this answer.

Best regards,

Annette

norbertsarfi
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Hi Annette,

thank you for your reply! Yes you understood the scenario correctly: base fee is charged regardless of consumption. If consumption is lower than base fee, there is no additional fee to pay. If consumption is higher than base fee, then the difference is charged.

As you pointed out, allowances cannot be defined monetarily. Our requirement is, that credit A can be consumed by more than 1 possible usage. But these usages have a different unit price (although same unit of measure).This is why we discarded the allowances option, as in this case unit price would not be considered.

Do you have any idea for this?
Thanks a lot in advance.

Best regards
Norbert Sarfi

Lakshmipathi
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When you create a discussion and start adding additional information as asked by the members, please add the same under Comments and not under Answer as you were not answering but sharing additional information. Also, when you add under comments, a mail will be triggered to who you respond. By the way, I have converted your above Answer to Comment