Invoicing and Billing a Bundle Subscription
- Panagiotis Papanastasiou
- Apostolos Karakaxas
With the completion of the order execution, our system will generate an invoice for charging the Bundle product (prepaid) as the summation of its sub-products and add-ons. Since certain sub-products are assigned to a given Bundle then the sum of all of their total prices becomes the actual Bundle's unit price. Therefore, the reseller/direct customer will know exactly what he pays for a Bundle product based on the invoice analysis, such as the one found in the following example.
Invoicing a Bundle Subscription
The following screenshot of an invoiced Bundle product, is the exact same invoice that would be produced for a simple product.
However, the pending invoices of Bundle products are visible only at the Bundle Subscription view-page and the user is able to manually Generate them through that very page. Also, the issued invoices are displayed only at the shortcuts' menu of the Bundle Subscription view-page.
Updating Pricing Rules of a Bundle's Sub-Products
By default, if the pricing rules of one or more sub-products are changed, then all the new Bundle subscriptions will contain those pricing rules.
However, let's analyze what happens for the existing Bundle subscriptions, when the pricing rules change.
- By changing the pricing rule of a Bundle's sub-product that has no price-protection, will affect the pricing of the existing Bundle subscriptions since the price of the sub-product will be recalculated and updated by following the new pricing rule.
| Case #1 Example - Price Rule Change | Sub-Products | Pricing Rule | Old Bundle Price | New Bundle Price | Existing Bundle Subscriptions | New Bundle Subscriptions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Both sub-products of a Bundle are not price-protected and originally had a pricing rule of 10 % discount. With the new discount change only on the sub-product B, the discount will be 20%. | Sub-Product A Sell price: $10 | 10% discount (Remains the same) | 10*0.9 + 20*0.9 = $27 | 10*0.9 + 20*0.8 = $25 | They will be affected. | They will be affected. |
Sub-Product B | Old: New: 20% discount |
- By changing the pricing rule of a Bundle's sub-product that has price-protection, it will effectively change the pricing of any new Bundle subscription but it will not change the Bundle's existing subscriptions since price-protected sub-products' pricing is locked for the period of the time protection.
| Case #2 Example - Price Rule Change | Sub-Products | Pricing Rule | Old Bundle Price | New Bundle Price | Existing Bundle Subscriptions | New Bundle Subscriptions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sub-product B of the Bundle is price-protected while sub-product A is not. Both sub-products originally had a pricing rule of 10 % discount. With the new discount change only on the sub-product B, the discount will be 20%. | Sub-Product A Sell price: $10 Non-Price-Protected | 10% discount (Remains the same) | 10*0.9 + 20*0.9 = $27 | 10*0.9 + 20*0.8 = $25 | They will not be affected. | They will be affected. |
| Sub-Product B Sell price $20 Price-Protected | Old: New: 20% discount |
Updating Price-Protected Sub-Subscriptions
By changing a Bundle's sub-subscription protected cost or sell price, the price of the sub-subscription will be updated using the new protected price and this will also affect the unit price of the Bundle subscription, given that a renewal or a quantity change takes place. In order for this change to occur, the BSS user must manually alter the protected sell and/or cost prices from the corresponding ribbon found under the (price-protected) sub-product's subscription view in BSS.
| Price Protected Sell Price Change of Sub-Subscription | Sub-Subscriptions | Pricing Rule | Old Bundle's Subscription Price | New Bundle's Subscription Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sub-product B of the Bundle is | Sub-Subscription A Non-Protected Cost price: $8 Non-Protected Sell price: $10 | 10% discount (Remains the same) | 10*0.9 + 20*0.9 = $27 | 10*0.9 + 21*0.9 = $27.9 |
| Sub-Subscription B Protected Cost Price: $17 Old Protected Sell Price: New Protected Sell Price: $21 | 10% discount (Remains the same) |