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Billing rules

This reference lists billing rule settings in the Settings API and their corresponding texts in the Zuora UI.

API Key: BillingRules

UI Location: Settings > Billing > Define Billing Rules

API field name

UI text

oneTimeCreditBack

Enable credit back for removing or canceling one time charges?

prorateRecurringMonthlyCharges

Bill recurring charges for partial month (with monthly based billing periods)?

prorateRecurringWeeklyCharges

Bill recurring charges for partial week (with weekly based billing periods)?

prorateUsageMonthlyCharges

Bill usage charges for partial month (with monthly based billing periods)?

prorateUsageWeeklyCharges

Bill usage charges for partial week (with weekly based billing periods)?

daysInMonth

When prorating a month, assume 30 days in a month or use actual days?

prorationUnit

When prorating periods greater than a month, prorate by month first, or by day?

allowAutoPostBillRun

Support bill run auto-post?

autoPostBillRunDefaultValue

Default bill run to auto-post?

includeNegativeInvoice

Include invoices with negative totals in the Account Balance (included associated Debit Memos)?

transactionOnSubscription

How should errors be handled when generating multiple invoices for a single account via bill run?

takeContactSnapshot

Preserve snapshot of bill-to and sold-to contacts when billing documents are posted?

sequentialInvoiceNumber

Enable Sequential Billing Document Number?

numberAssignmentTiming

Setting determines when the document will be assigned a number from the official document sequence

invoicePastEndOfTerm

Invoice Past End-of-Term when Auto-Renew is OFF?

billToTermEndWhenAutoRenew

Invoice Past End-of-Term when Auto-Renew is ON?

taxAddressOwner

Calculate taxes using information from Customer Account of:

taxInclusiveRoundingRule

Zuora Tax rounding rule for inclusive tax calculation

taxRateChangeOption

When service period of an invoice item crosses multiple tax rate period, it will generate:

notSendZeroItemsForTax

Do not send $0 items to external tax engines

useAvalaraTaxCalculationForIIA

Use Avalara to calculate taxes for invoice item adjustments?

allowIndistinctMapping

Allow indistinct mapping from Memo / Invoice Item Adjustment tax item to invoice item tax

zuoraNumberFormatForMergeField

Format numeric merge fields based on communication profile locales?

copyBillingAttributesFromAccountForStandaloneInvoice

Copy billing attributes from accounts to billing documents when no attributes are specified on subscriptions.

preGenerateInvoicePdf

Proactively generate Invoice PDF files?

availableToCreditValidationLevel

vailable to credit validation for credit memos

timeOfDailyInvoice

Approximate time of day to generate daily invoices

debookRebookSupportable

Apply new tax rate for additional units purchased and old tax rate for returns?

includeChildUsage

Include usage from child accounts when billing?

recurringChargeStyle

Invoice recurring charges in advance or arrears?

proratePeriodOfRecurringCharge

Prorate recurring charges for partial period?

creditMemoMirroringInvoiceItemsRule

Create credit memos mirroring invoice items

legalDocumentGeneratingRule

Invoice/Credit Memo generation rule

zuoraTaxRoundingDiffDispersion

Redistribute Zuora Tax rounding differences

rateUsageIndividually

Round and determine a price for usage records individually when rating usage charges?

invoiceSplit

Allow invoice splitting?

consolidateInvoices

Allow to consolidate subscriptions, order line items and standalone invoice items into a single invoice?

discountCreditProration

Credit for Prorated Discounts (Fixed-amount Discount Charge Only)

useSystemDefaultSuffixForCreditItems

Use system default suffix for credit items

autoRenewalBillRun

Default bill run to automatically renew auto-renew subscriptions that are up for renewal

catchUpBillRun

Enable catch-up bill run

copyBillingAttributesFromAccount

Copy billing attributes from accounts to billing documents when no attributes are specified on subscriptions.

customerHierarchy

Enable Customer Hierarchy

recurringCreditProrationOption

When bill credit for recurring charges, based on billed period or credit period

taxPreview

Enable tax preview with external tax engines during generation of invoice and credit memo?

discountConsolidated

Send external engine consolidated discount and regular charge

availableToCreditIncludingRbeCreditMemo

Available to credit validation for credit memos

stackedDiscountClassApplyRule

Should the stacked percentage discount ignore or follow discount class?