Companies know that billing is where the rubber meets the road. Billing sounds so simple: send an invoice, collect payment. In reality, considerable network infrastructure and systems integration is required to deploy an effective billing operations support system.

Omega's Billing system is a business support system that controls customer invoicing by generating all necessary charges, discounts, promotions, credit units, etc. according to commercial definitions. Our solution will reduce time to market and will combine all company services into a single invoice, allowing cross discounts and promotions.

Our modular structure facilitates implementation of new commercial products.

VERSION

• VERSION: 2.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

• RED HAT ENTERPRISE SERVER V5.4

DATABASE ENGINE

• ORACLE 11G R2

APPLICATION SERVER

• GLASSFISH V2.1.1

• Scalability
• Modular structure
• Flexibility
• Easy customization
• Build to handle complexity
• Performance
• Integration versatility
• Multi currency
• Reduced time-to-market
• Convergent billing
• Multi service in a single invoice
• Prepaid and postpaid service for same subscriber
• Third-party billing
• Multi purpose

RECURRENT CHARGES (RCH)

Recurrent Charge is an element of the invoice that is registered periodically in all billing cycles, i.e. Basic Rate, Caller ID.

NON-RECURRENT CHARGES (NRC)

Non-recurrent charge or Non-periodic charge is an invoicing item that is billed only once, i.e. Installation charge, Charge for transfer.

The NRC can be assigned to invoice or subscriber.

ADVANCE CHARGE

An Advance Charge is a charge associated with acquiring prepaid type services.

Allow management of the expiration date of a prepaid service, which consists of paying a certain amount of money in advance for the service. An advance charge can be assigned to client, invoice or subscriber.

DISCOUNTS (DIS)

Discounts are an important component for the design of commercial packages and promotions.

A discount can be assigned to Client, invoice or subscriber

TAXES (TAX)

The service provider collects taxes and this charge is included in the invoice issued to the user.

By definition,a tax cannot be applied over another tax, so a TAX element type cannot be set up.

Application of the tax is at Community and Consumption Entity level.

USAGE CHARGING (USG)

The usage module manages and administer pricing usage events. All events come from mediation in XDR format.

ADJUSTMENTS & RETURNS (ADV)

Returns are exceptional items in the invoice that apply to overbilled amounts.

The maximum refund amount is the net amount of the invoice. Adjustments are exceptional items on the invoice that apply to sub-billed amounts. Adjustments & returns can be assigned to invoice or subscriber.

CREDIT UNITS (CRU)

Credit units are the allocation of additional amounts that may be used by consumer entities, which can be assigned to invoice or subscriber.

BILLING ENGINE (BIL)

The Billing module is the "director" of billing operations that executes operations and controls billing cycles.

The main objective is to execute operations and control billing cycles.