Postpaid commitment

You can evaluate and run billing for postpaid commitments using a batch process or trigger an ad-hoc evaluation for specific commitments.

A commitment period becomes billable when:

1. The billing target date falls on or after the commitment period end date.

2. All contributing charges have been billed through the commitment period end date (for active commitments), or the commitment cancellation effective date (for cancelled commitments).

Commitments are evaluated for true-up via a bill run in both UI and API. For each account in a bill run, the system will try to evaluate all of its commitments and billable commitment periods automatically.

You can also trigger evaluation for specific commitments through APIs:

1. Create an order API: If commitments are included in the order request and runBilling=true, the system will try to evaluate and bill all commitments in the order automatically.

2. Generate billing documents API: The system will try to evaluate and bill all commitments specified in the commitmentKeys array automatically.

True-up invoice items are always issued to the commitment account as non-subscription invoice items.

Prepaid commitment

For prepaid commitments, Zuora generates prepayment invoices based on the commitment periods. Each installment is billed as a separate invoice line and uses the commitment name as the line description.

For more information, see Prepayment billing.