Billing Recurring Products

For recurring order line items, the API creates a cascade of billing schedule records depending on the term and billing frequency of the order line item.

To know how Billing works on the Conga Platform, it is recommended to familiarize yourself with its architecture mentioned in Understanding the Billing Architecture on Conga Platform.

Prerequisites

• An order line item is created for a recurring product.

• The order line item is active.

  
  

  

  If the OLI is active, the API will execute the logic, otherwise throws an error.

When you call the Initiate Billing API for a recurring order line item with OrderLineItemIds and ReadyForBillingDate as the payload, it starts processing the OLI. It creates one billing header, a cascade of billing schedule records, and billing schedule details depending on the term and billing frequency of the order line item. The billing schedule records are created with "Pending Billing" status and displays the following information:

• Bill To
• Period Start Date
• Period End Date
• Actual Fee Amount
• Ready for Invoice Date

This API is capable of handling several order line items and hence can process several line items in bulk.

Let's process a recurring product with the help of the following example.

Example

Suppose you have configured a recurring order line item with the following details:

Contact your admin will make this functionality available in your application so that upon clicking a button you should be able to call the billing service API and get the result as shown. The API creates one Billing Header, 12 Billing Schedule Records, and 12 Billing Schedule Details.

The billing header uses the information from the order line item and contains the following data. Depending upon the information given for the pricing source, It will pick up the pricing information from the order line item or the asset line item. The Billing Header shows:

Twelve Billing Schedule Records are generated showing the following output:

The Actual Fee Amount shown in the billing schedule record is the amount that is billed to the customer. 

Billing Schedule Details show the following information: