Tariffing

Selcomm™ views tariffs as the application of charges to the transaction details for which the SP will charge their customers. Tariffs, within themselves, can consist of a complex variety of charging at the retail level from the categorisation of the transaction through to the addition fixed and periodic charges. Packages can exist within a hierarchy, of which in turn, can have business rules set to ensure that package changes are bound by the terms of the customer contract. For example, the subscriber may sign on to a contract period and rate plan that inherently includes the leasing of a hardware item, the service provider may allow that subscriber to change up to a higher value package and down according to changes within the customer's business needs. However, Selcomm™ will ensure that package changes will not proceed below the value of the original package for the term of the contract. This type of business requirement is often seen within the mobile sector of the industry.

The Selcomm™ Tariff Process functionality includes:

• Sophisticated plan definition from automated mark-up, to reallocation of plans, through to bundling of packages
• Complex multi-attribute plan definition capability
• Maintain plans for billing purposes that may be inactive from a marketing perspective
• Scheduling of plans for automated future activation
• Rule based definition of tariff plans to validate change requests
• Full integration of plans available with the Selcomm™ customer care module
• Pro-rata processing of fixed tariff charges