Create orders containing multiple charges with annual prices and unaligned billing periods
Create orders with multiple charges featuring annual prices and unaligned billing periods, resulting in varied invoice amounts.
With Annual List Price, you can create orders that contain multiple charges with annual prices and unaligned billing periods.
The charges have full but unaligned billing periods, and each charge is thus calculated separately. The following requirements are met:
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All rate plan charges have annual prices.
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All rate plan charges have full billing periods.
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The billing periods of the charges are unaligned with the same start date and end date.
In this use case, four subscriptions are created with different terms of 12 months, and three invoices are generated based on the billed charges.
As shown in the following table, four subscriptions are created by creating an order, with a total amount of $70,200.00, different terms of 12 months, and the same billing period of four months. You expect to have three invoices generated.
|
Subscription number |
Term start date |
Term (Month) |
Charge number |
Charge start date |
Charge end date |
Selling price |
Billing period (Month) |
Billing cycle day |
Total Invoice amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
S1 |
01/01/2022 |
12 |
C1 |
01/01/2022 |
12/31/2022 |
$36,900.00 |
4 |
1st |
$70,200.00 |
|
S2 |
02/01/2022 |
12 |
C2 |
02/01/2022 |
01/31/2023 |
$21,500.00 |
4 |
1st | |
|
S3 |
03/01/2022 |
12 |
C3 |
03/01/2022 |
02/28/2023 |
$11,000.00 |
4 |
1st | |
|
S4 |
04/01/2022 |
12 |
C4 |
04/01/2022 |
03/31/2023 |
$800.00 |
4 |
1st |
For each individual charge, the total billed amount for the annual charge across invoices sums to the total annual price amounts. Because the billing periods of the charges are unaligned with the same start date and end date, the total annual price amounts for all charges are not necessarily evenly distributed across invoices.
To create such orders, perform the following steps: