Bill Line Items - Mapping to Accounting Products
To ensure Bill line items are assigned to the correct Product lines, you can select an Accounting Product when configuring many of the billing-related entities used to set up pricing and charges in your m3ter Organization. The Accounting Product feature gives you the capability to map line items to specific Products in a fine-grained way, and therefore allows your finance team to:
Map revenue sources more accurately to track profitability and financial performance.
Automate revenue recognition and deferrals based on contract, plan, and pricing structures.
Reduce manual finance workload by ensuring accounting products set in m3ter flow through to accounts receivables when invoices are generated.
This topic explains by line item type how different billing-related entities assign this mapping to an Accounting Product. Since in many cases the mapping of Accounting Product to a line item type can be defined for several billing-related entities, the order of precedence for which Accounting Product mapping is used is also explained:
Tip: Grouping Bill Line Items by Accounting Products! When a Bill has been generated for an Account and line items are mapped to Accounting Products, in Bill Management you can use a display option to group line items by Accounting Product. See Viewing Bill Details.
Usage Line Items
The mapping to Accounting Product for Usage or Usage credit line items is determined by:
Pricing. The Pricing Accounting product takes precedence.
Aggregation. If not defined for the Pricing, the Accounting product for the Aggregation used to price a Plan is used.
Plan. If not defined for either the Pricing or the Aggregation, the Product the Plan belongs to is used.
Prepayment/Commitment Line Items
Prepayment Consumed
The mapping to Accounting Product for Prepayment consumed line items is determined by:
The Draw-downs accounting product defined for the Prepayment takes precedence.
If the Draw-downs accounting product is not defined, then the Accounting product defined for the Prepayment is used.
Prepayment Fee
The mapping to Accounting Product for Prepayment fee line items is determined by:
The Fees accounting product defined for the Prepayment takes precedence.
If the Fees accounting product is not defined, then the Accounting product defined for the Prepayment is used.
Minimum Spend Line Items
Plan
The mapping to Accounting Product for Minimum spend and Minimum spend adjustment line items is determined by:
The Minimum spend accounting product defined for the Plan takes precedence.
If the Minimum spend accounting product is not defined for the Plan, then the Product the Plan belongs to is used.
Plan Group
The mapping to Accounting Product for Minimum spend and Minimum spend adjustment line items is determined by the Minimum spend accounting product defined for the Plan Group.
Standing Charge Line Items
Plan
The mapping to Accounting Product for Standing charge line items is determined by:
The Standing charge accounting product defined for the Plan takes precedence.
If the Standing charge accounting product is not defined for the Plan, then the Product the Plan belongs to is used.
Plan Group
The mapping to Accounting Product for Standing charge line items is determined by the Standing charge accounting product defined for the Plan Group.
Balance Line Items
Balance Consumed
The mapping to Accounting Product for Balance consumed line items is determined by the Consumptions accounting product defined for the Balance:
If you omit a Consumptions accounting product, then then Balance consumed Bill line items will not be linked to a Product and will be listed under Balance.
Balance Fee
The mapping to Accounting Product for Balance fee line items is determined by:
The Accounting product defined for the Balance Charge takes precedence.
If the Accounting product is not defined for the Balance Charge, then the Fees accounting product defined for the Balance is used.
If an Accounting product has not been defined for a Charge and you omit Fees accounting product for the Balance, then Balance fee Bill line items will not be linked to a Product and will be listed under Balance.
Ad-Hoc Line Items
The mapping to Accounting Product for Ad-hoc line items is determined by the Accounting product defined for the Account Charge.
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