Cost & Billing 1.0.1

New features

Financial configuration [ID 46283]

Cost & Billing now allows you to define the financial building blocks required to calculate internal costs and customer-facing billing for operational activities.

With this release, you can:

• Define value units (e.g., currencies), configure exchange rates, and set the nominal value unit in which final calculation results are expressed.
• Create and manage cost rate cards to define internal item costs, including support for multi-time rates, minimum time constraints, and capped rates.
• Create and manage billing rate cards, defining customer-facing charges, with the same timing and capping rules.
• Create and manage customer contracts, including validity periods, billing type (item, group, or item and group), uplift and discount percentages, rounding rules, and an optional total override amount.
• Assign billing rate cards to a contract at item level, group level, or category level (as a default for all items or groups of that category).
• Move contracts and rate cards through their lifecycle states (Draft, Active, and Deprecated), including bulk deprecation.

Operational sync and calculation [ID 46284]

Cost & Billing now allows you to synchronize operational inventory from an external system and calculate cost and billing figures for each billable event.

With this release, you can:

• Synchronize items and groups from an integrated external system and assign a cost rate card to each item.
• Keep historical billing records when synced items or groups are no longer present in the external system by transitioning them to a Missing state instead of deleting them.
• Synchronize billable events and calculate internal cost and customer-facing billing values for each event.
• Calculate the cost and billing for a billable event at any stage of its lifecycle, based on its assigned contract and the applicable rate cards.
• Manually override the calculated cost or billing amount of an individual billable item, with the override preserved on recalculation.
• Finalize a billable event to freeze its financial summary, protecting the values sent to finance from later changes.
• View any errors encountered during calculation (e.g., missing rate card assignments) on the Logs page.

Note

To sync items, groups, and billable events, and calculate their cost and billing, you will need an adapter and a calculation script for the external system you integrate with. A sample integration with MediaOps Plan, including a ready-to-use adapter and calculation script, is available in the DataMiner Catalog.