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Commitment balance adjustments

Learn how to adjust commitment balances in Zuora using contribution charge adjustments or standalone credit and debit memo adjustments.

In Zuora, commitments represent contractual obligations - either as postpaid minimum spend guarantees or as prepaid spend balances. Over the course of a commitment lifecycle, you may need to adjust the remaining balance of a commitment period due to renegotiations, goodwill exceptions, or error corrections.

Zuora supports two approaches for modifying commitment balances:

  • Contribution charge adjustment: Direct system-driven adjustment from the modification of the contribution charges.

  • Credit and debit memo adjustment from invoice items: Ad-hoc memos applied to contributing invoices.

Considerations

  • Locked commitment periods: Adjustments are blocked on commitment periods that have a Cancelled status.

  • Ad-hoc standalone invoices: Ad-hoc memos from product rate plan charges, standalone invoices, Invoice Adjustments (IA), and Invoice Item Adjustments (IIA) are not allowed to contribute or adjust commitment balances.

  • Multi-currency restrictions: The currency of the adjustment, credit memo, or debit memo must strictly match the commitment/prepayment currency. Multi-currency cross-contribution and commitment are not supported.