Bill Line Items - Default Descriptions
When setting up priced Product Plans and Prepayment or Balance amounts to apply usage-based charges against your end customer Accounts for consuming Products, there are several places where you have the option to define custom descriptions for Bill line items:
Plan Templates/Plans: Standing Charge and Minimum Spend descriptions.
Plan Groups - Standing Charge and Minimum Spend descriptions.
Pricing - Usage and Minimum Spend descriptions.
Prepayments - Fee, Usage, and Overage descriptions.
Balances - Draw-down description.
This topic explains how Bill line item default descriptions are compiled if you omit custom descriptions for Bill line items.
Standing Charge
Plan Template or Plan:
Default DESCRIPTION: Standing Charge
Plan Group:
Default DESCRIPTION: Standing Charge
Minimum Spend
Plan Template:
Default DESCRIPTION: <Plan Template Product Name> Minimum Spend Adjustment
Plan:
Default DESCRIPTION: <Plan Product Name> Minimum Spend Adjustment
Plan Group:
Default DESCRIPTION: <Plan Group Name> Minimum Spend Adjustment
Pricing:
Default DESCRIPTION: <Aggregation Name> Minimum Spend Adjustment
Usage
The default descriptions for usage line items derive from the name of the Aggregation that defines the usage metric used to price the Product Plan.
Simple Aggregation:
Default DESCRIPTION: <Aggregation name>
Compound Aggregation:
Default DESCRIPTION: <Compound Aggregation name>
Segmented Aggregation:
Default DESCRIPTION: <Segmented Aggregation Name> + (<segment value>)
Prepayments
Fee. Two cases:
Product selected:
Default DESCRIPTION: Prepayment Fee (<Product name>)
No Product selected:
Default DESCRIPTION: Prepayment Fee (account-wide)
Usage. Two cases:
Product selected:
Default DESCRIPTION: Prepayment Consumed (<Product name>)
No Product selected:
Default DESCRIPTION: Prepayment Consumed (account-wide)
Overage. Two cases:
Product selected:
Default DESCRIPTION: Overage Surcharge (<Product name>)
No Product selected:
Default DESCRIPTION: Overage Surcharge (account-wide)
Balances
Draw-down:
Default DESCRIPTION: No Default. However, the Start Date and End Date used to define the Balance period are shown under DESCRIPTION.
Parent/Child Account Bills - Line Item Descriptions
Default descriptions for line items that appear on Bills where there is a Parent/Child Accounts set up follow the same rules for compiling the DESCRIPTION text, except the name of the Child Account is also appended to the default description text string.
Warning - Case where Child Account code also shown in description! If you have the Account Plan attached to the Parent Account and set the Account hierarchy billing mode to Bill parent account - bill line item per account, then the Bill for the Parent Account will append both the Child Account name and code to the description text for any Child Account usage charge line items.
Next: Troubleshooting Bills
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