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Cumulus supports the following forms of Rating: | Cumulus supports the following forms of Rating: | ||
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| − | + | | '''Passthrough''' || The supplier charge from the usage file is passed through to the customer | |
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| − | + | | '''Markup %''' || Increases the supplier charge from the usage file by the defined percentage | |
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| − | + | | '''Discount %''' || Decreases the supplier charge from the usage file by the defined percentage | |
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| − | + | | '''Flat Charge''' || Applies a flat charge to the usage | |
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| − | + | | '''Rate Per''' || Applies a price per time interval, with a flagfall, minimum charge, charge interval, price per charge interval, and price interval | |
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| + | | '''Excess''' || Applies a price per time interval once the initial free time has been reached, with a flagfall, minimum charge, initial free time, charge interval, price per charge interval, and price interval | ||
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| + | | '''Simple Cap''' || Allows a maximum value to be applied to the usage, with minimum cost, maximum cost, maximum type (i.e. $ or time), charge interval, price per charge interval, and price interval to be defined | ||
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| + | | '''Capped''' || Applies a price per time interval once the initial free time has been reached up to a maximum value, with a flagfall, minimum charge, maximum cost, maximum type (i.e. $ or time), initial free time, charge interval, price per charge interval, and price interval | ||
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| + | | '''Limited Cap''' || | ||
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| + | | '''Tiered''' || | ||
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| + | | '''FF + Markup %''' || Applies a flagfall and increases the supplier charge by the defined percentage | ||
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| + | In addition, some rating methods allow multiple tiers to be configured to charge at different rates at various usage limits on a single usage type (i.e. the rate per, excess, simple cap, and capped rating methods). <br /> | ||
| + | ''For example, a rate per rating method for a telephony service, set with multiple tiers that may apply $0.50c per minute for a call up to a value of $10, and then apply $0.30c per minute for the call from $10.01 up to a value of $30, and then apply $0.18c per minute for the remaining call usage.'' | ||
Rate Cards are bound to [[ServicePlans/ServicePlans|Service Plans]] based on the Telephony and Mobile Service Types (as Rate Cards are applied only to 'Telephony' usage). | Rate Cards are bound to [[ServicePlans/ServicePlans|Service Plans]] based on the Telephony and Mobile Service Types (as Rate Cards are applied only to 'Telephony' usage). | ||
Revision as of 14:33, 21 November 2016
Contents
Rate Card
Introduction
A Rate Card is a group of rates. A Rate defines, for a given call type, what the system should charge and also how the system should charge for this usage.
Cumulus is very flexible when it comes to rating usage and allows for either very simple rating (eg Markup, flagfall) or very complex rating (Tiered Rates, Caps).
Cumulus supports the following forms of Rating:
| Passthrough | The supplier charge from the usage file is passed through to the customer |
| Markup % | Increases the supplier charge from the usage file by the defined percentage |
| Discount % | Decreases the supplier charge from the usage file by the defined percentage |
| Flat Charge | Applies a flat charge to the usage |
| Rate Per | Applies a price per time interval, with a flagfall, minimum charge, charge interval, price per charge interval, and price interval |
| Excess | Applies a price per time interval once the initial free time has been reached, with a flagfall, minimum charge, initial free time, charge interval, price per charge interval, and price interval |
| Simple Cap | Allows a maximum value to be applied to the usage, with minimum cost, maximum cost, maximum type (i.e. $ or time), charge interval, price per charge interval, and price interval to be defined |
| Capped | Applies a price per time interval once the initial free time has been reached up to a maximum value, with a flagfall, minimum charge, maximum cost, maximum type (i.e. $ or time), initial free time, charge interval, price per charge interval, and price interval |
| Limited Cap | |
| Tiered | |
| FF + Markup % | Applies a flagfall and increases the supplier charge by the defined percentage |
In addition, some rating methods allow multiple tiers to be configured to charge at different rates at various usage limits on a single usage type (i.e. the rate per, excess, simple cap, and capped rating methods).
For example, a rate per rating method for a telephony service, set with multiple tiers that may apply $0.50c per minute for a call up to a value of $10, and then apply $0.30c per minute for the call from $10.01 up to a value of $30, and then apply $0.18c per minute for the remaining call usage.
Rate Cards are bound to Service Plans based on the Telephony and Mobile Service Types (as Rate Cards are applied only to 'Telephony' usage).
Rate Cards can have Time Tables linked to them.
Buy and Sell
Rate Cards are unique amongst the various billing objects in the system (such as Service Plans, Bolt Ons, Package Plans) in that Rate Cards themselves do not have a concept of Buy and Sell. Rate Cards are mapped to Service Plans which are either classed as 'Buy' or 'Sell'.
If you do not understand the concept of Buy and Sell plans, please see this article for further information.
Concepts
Rate Cards have some specific concepts which need to be understood before you will be able to work with Rate Cards effectively.
Tariff
In Cumulus Terms, a Tariff is a usage type with a friendly name (eg UnitedStatesOfAmerica - Mobile). External carriers (such as Telstra and Optus) will make CDRs (Customer Data Records) available for Cumulus and other providers to download. Each record will contain a field which dictates what kind of usage the particular service incurred at that instance (eg National Call, Local Call, International Call to the UK etc).
This call type links to our system as a Tariff Key which forms part of a Tariff. A Rate will be linked to a particular Tariff which will generally be mapped to the external Tariff Key - which is how Cumulus is able to group the various call types together.
Tariff Groups
Tariffs are Hierarchical and are grouped together inside Tariff Groups.
An example of a Tariff Group would be International Calls - whereby all international calls to various countries are contained with the International Calls Tariff Group.
Cumulus supports assigning Rates to a particular Tariff Group - such that all Rates linked to Tariffs contained within that Tariff Group, that do not have rates specifically applied, are rated as per the charge at the Tariff Group.
Consider the following extract of an example Rate Card:
* International - Charged at $4 per minute. $0.50 flag fall
- UnitedStatesOfAmerica
o UnitedStatesofAmerica - LandLine
o UnitedStatesOfAmerica - Mobile - Charged at $1.35 per minute, $1 flag fall
International is a Tariff Group containing UnitedStatesOfAmerica. UnitedStatesOfAmerica is also a Tariff Group containing the tariffs, UnitedStatesOfAmerica - LandLine and UnitedStateOfAmerica - Mobile.
If a service using this rate card incurs the Tariff type: UnitedStateOfAmerica - Mobile, they will be charged as per the rate explicitly defined for the Tariff 'UnitedStatesOfAmerica - Mobile' (as in $1.35 per minute, $1 flag fall).
However, if this same service then incurred the Tariff type, 'UnitedStatesofAmerica - LandLine' then Cumulus - in attempting to rate this usage - would see that there was no rate defined explicitly for 'UnitedStatesofAmerica - LandLine'. It would then loop up and look at its Parent, 'UnitedStatesOfAmerica' and see that there is no rate there either. At that point, it would loop around again and go to the parent of 'UnitedStatesOfAmerica', which is the Tariff Group: 'International'.
In this example, the Tariff Group 'International' has a rate associated to it, which is: $4 per minute. $0.50 flag fall. This usage would be rated as per rate assigned to the Tariff Group.
Base Tariff
The Base Tariff is a special Tariff Group that sits at the top of the Tariff Hierarchy for a given service type. All Tariff Groups and Tariffs for this Service Type sit underneath this Tariff
You are able to set a rate at the Base Tariff to catch any Usage that would ordinarily not be rated.
Typical Tariff Structure
Typically speaking, a group of Tariffs for a specific service type will be organised into the following Tariff Groups (Please treat this as a rough guide only. Specific Tariff Groups will vary depending on the carrier and Service Type)
BASE TARIFF (*)
* Local Calls (*)
* National Calls (*)
- National Calls may be segregated by distance (ie 0 to 50kms, 50 to 200kms)
* Fixed to Mobile (*)
* Special Calls
- 1300 Calls
- 1800 Calls
- InfoCalls
* International Calls (*)
- Country (*)
o Country
o Country - Mobile Carrier
(*) Indicates Tariff Group
Mobile based Tariffs may contain extra Tariff Groups such as:
* SMS (*)
* MMS (*)
* ROAM (*)
