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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:

  • All rate plan charges have annual prices.

  • All rate plan charges have full billing periods.

  • 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:

  1. Enable the Annual List Price settings.
  2. Create four recurring product rate plan charges with the Flat Fee Pricing charge model.
  3. Create and activate an order with four subscriptions to the four charges, with the total amount of $70,200.00 and different terms of 12 months.

    After the order is activated, you can get three invoices.

    The following table lists the allocated amount and service period of each invoice item in the first invoice with invoice number INV001.

    Invoice item

    Service start date

    Service end date

    Amount

    Total amount

    Invoice Item 1

    01/01/2022

    04/30/2022

    $12,300.00

    $23,400.01

    Invoice Item 2

    02/01/2022

    05/31/2022

    $7,166.67

    Invoice Item 3

    03/01/2022

    06/30/2022

    $3,666.67

    Invoice Item 4

    04/01/2022

    07/31/2022

    $266.67

    The following table lists the allocated amount and service period of each invoice item in the second invoice with invoice number INV002.

    Invoice item

    Service start date

    Service end date

    Amount

    Total amount

    Invoice Item 1

    05/01/2022

    09/30/2022

    $12,300.00

    $23,399.98

    Invoice Item 2

    06/01/2022

    10/31/2022

    $7,166.66

    Invoice Item 3

    07/01/2022

    11/30/2022

    $3,666.66

    Invoice Item 4

    08/01/2022

    12/31/2022

    $266.66

    The following table lists the allocated amount and service period of each invoice item in the third invoice with invoice number INV003.

    Invoice item

    Service start date

    Service end date

    Amount

    Total amount

    Invoice Item 1

    09/01/2022

    12/31/2022

    $12,300.00

    $23,400.01

    Invoice Item 2

    10/01/2022

    01/31/2022

    $7,166.67

    Invoice Item 3

    11/01/2022

    02/28/2022

    $3,666.67

    Invoice Item 4

    12/01/2022

    03/31/2022

    $266.67

    The subscriptions are billed with the billing target date: 1 April 2022, 1 August 2022, and 1 December 2022. The total invoice amount is $70,200.00, and it is not evenly distributed into 3 invoices. The first invoice has an amount of $23,400.01, the second invoice has an amount of $23,399.98, and the third invoice has an amount of $23,400.01.

    The amount displayed in the Amount column for each invoice item is calculated based on the following formula:

    (Selling price ÷ Total billing periods) × Past billing periods - Billed invoice item amount

    The amount displayed in the Total amount column is the sum of all invoice item amounts in this service period.

    For example, the amount of the second charge line item in each invoice is as follows:

    • $7,166.67 in INV001 $7,166.67 is the rounded value based on the formula of (21500÷3)×1. In this formula, 3 represents the total number of billing periods, and 1 represents that this is the first billing period of the year.

    • $7,166.66 in INV002 $7,166.66 is the rounded value based on the formula of (21500÷3)×2-7166.67. In this formula, 2 represents that this is the second billing period of the year, and 7166.67 represents the billed amount for the first billing period.

    • $7,166.67 in INV003 $7,166.67 is the rounded value based on the formula (21500÷3)×3-(7166.67+7166.66). In this formula, the first 3 represents that there are three billing periods in total, the second 3 represents that this is the third billing period of the year, and (7166.67+7166.66) represents the total billed amount for the first two billing periods.

    The sum of charge C2 from the three invoices is 21,500.00, which is the calculation result of 7166.67+7166.66+7166.67. That is, the charge C2 has a price of $21,500.00 per year.