Invoicing and Billing a Bundle Subscription

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 ChangeSub-ProductsPricing RuleOld Bundle PriceNew Bundle PriceExisting 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 = $2710*0.9 + 20*0.8 = $25They will be affected.They will be affected.

Sub-Product B
Sell price $20

Old: 10% discount
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 ChangeSub-ProductsPricing RuleOld Bundle PriceNew Bundle PriceExisting 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 = $2710*0.9 + 20*0.8 = $25They will not be affected.They will be affected.
Sub-Product B
Sell price $20
Price-Protected
Old: 10% discount
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-SubscriptionSub-SubscriptionsPricing RuleOld Bundle's Subscription PriceNew Bundle's Subscription Price

Sub-product B of the Bundle is 
price-protected while sub-product A is not.
Both sub-products have a pricing
rule of 10 % discount. With the change
on the protected sell price of the
sub-subscription B, the Bundle's
subscription unit price will be
recalculated and changed for that
specific subscription.

Sub-Subscription A
Non-Protected Cost price: $8
Non-Protected Sell price: $10
10% discount
(Remains the same)
10*0.9 + 20*0.9 = $2710*0.9 + 21*0.9 = $27.9
Sub-Subscription B
Protected Cost Price: $17
Old Protected Sell Price: $20
New Protected Sell Price: $21
10% discount
(Remains the same)


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