Business software solutions

Fully redundant, high-speed rating engine with load-balancing capability assures billing efficiency.

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• No limitation for scalability of the software; scalability is based on the hardware components selected

• Usage rated daily - speeds up net billing run time

• Multi-cycle billing to meet your business requirements

• Multi-language invoices

• Calculates discounts, applies taxes and prepares subscriber’s data for invoice process

• Trial Balance, Pre- and Post-Cycle Reports verify that all cycles balanced

• Billing can be kicked off in-house by your staff or conducted by Northflow on your behalf for hosted deployments

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Bill Cycles  

 

Allow you to split and track revenue by product or service, bill group, or by general ledger number

 

• Multiple Bill Cycles can be run concurrently

• Bill Cycles establish the statement date, payment due date, billing interval (monthly/quarterly), billing start date, and the prorate method used to determine partials

• Bill Cycles can have any number of related Bill Groups associated with them

• Bill Groups define a ‘collection of accounts’ – billed at the same interval, in the same bill cycle, with the same invoice format

• Trial Balance Report verifies that each Bill Cycle balanced properly

 

Taxation

 

• Internal tax functionality defines field values based on GEO code and tax jurisdiction code

• Pre-integrated with optional industry compliant 3rd-party EZtax module

• Tax based on a percentage, flat amount, units of usage, tax-on-tax

• Tax rules control application of tax for recurring, non-recurring charges and tax exempt status

Rating   

 

Real-time rating engine processes any measurable usage type: wireline, cellular, content, data, IP, video

• Rules-based tariff editor accommodates an unlimited number of rating schemes

• Flexible usage rating by type, customer, bill group, market or GEO location

• Pre-paid and post-paid usage, packages, bundles, and promotions

• Efficiently rate recurring, non-recurring charges, discounts, peak, off-peak, pro-rated, time of day, duration, events, volume

• Usage rated daily provides near real-time view of billed and unbilled toll in Web Care or CRM