Ordering a postpaid Subscription to a commercial period

To reduce the possible risk of selling services within the Postpay model when a customer pays after factual using a service, a Reseller can limit using the Postpay model by Accounts as follows:

• Ordering postpaid Subscription to a trial period has no restrictions since an Account does not pay for a service.
• Ordering a postpaid Subscription to a commercial period is available depending on the value of the Allow an account to order a postpaid subscription parameter (see General system settings):
  
  • Automatically — all new and existing Accounts can order postpaid Subscriptions without manual approval from the Manager (by default).

  • Manually — to order a postpaid Subscriptions, an Account should get approval from the Manager. As a result, an Account can have one of the following Work permit for postpaid statuses:

    • Verification not performed — the Account did no order postpaid Subscriptions to a commercial period when the manual approval from the Manager was expected. A Manager can order for the Account the first postpaid Subscription to a commercial period, including a new postpaid Subscription to a commercial period, as well as renewing and switching a postpaid Subscription to a commercial period, but to confirm and provision the Order, the Allow an account has postpaid subscriptions Manual Operation should be approved so the Account will get the Approved status.
    • Approval required — the Account attempted to order the first postpaid Subscription to a commercial period when the manual approval from the Manager was expected. The Account is being reviewed by the Manager. The Account is under review, and ordering a new postpaid Subscription to a commercial period, as well as renewing and switching a postpaid Subscription to a commercial period, are not available.
      
    • Declined — the Manager denied the Account to order postpaid Subscriptions to a commercial period. Ordering a new postpaid Subscription to a commercial period, as well as renewing and switching a postpaid Subscription to a commercial period, are not available.
      
    • Approved — the Manager allowed the Account to order postpaid Subscriptions to a commercial period.
• Switching from Manually to Automatically in the Allow an account to order a postpaid subscription parameter leads to the following:
  • All existing Manual Operations remain in their statuses.
  • Provisioning of Subscriptions blocked by Manual Operations in the Approval required status does not start until the Manual Operations approve.
  • Provisioning of Subscriptions blocked by Manual Operations in the Declined status does not start.
  • The current value of the Work permit for postpaid parameter for the existing Accounts remains.
  • All new and existing Accounts can order new postpaid Subscriptions without manual approval from the Manager.
• Switching back from Automatically to Manually in the Allow an account to order a postpaid subscription parameter leads to the following:
  
  • Existing Subscriptions continue working regardless of the current values of the Work permit for postpaid parameter of the existing Accounts.
  • The current value of the Work permit for postpaid parameter for the existing Accounts remains.
  • For new Subscriptions, Manual Operations are created according to the current values of the Work permit for postpaid parameter of Accounts.