Specifics of managing postpaid Subscriptions
The Postpay model means that a customer pays after factual using a service.
Postpaid Subscriptions start provisioning immediately after the Order confirmation. Postpaid Subscriptions do not use the Account balance and have instead of that individual values of the current consumption (a debt) and consumption limit (see Viewing and updating Subscription's details).
When a Manager creates an Order for a postpaid Subscription, it may be possible to increase the amount of Resources. It may cause the unwanted debt for this Subscription of an Account. To prevent this situation, the platform checks the Subscription credit limit. As a result, confirmation of an Order is available only in the cases listed in the table below (for Order types, see Managing an Order).
Order type | Conditions that allow confirming an Order with the Subscription credit limit |
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| Sales order |
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| Prolong order | The Total amount of the Order does not exceed the Subscription credit limit defined in the Account Class or redefined on the Account or Subscription level |
| Renewal order | The Total amount of the Order does not exceed the Subscription credit limit defined in the Account Class or redefined on the Account or Subscription level |
| Change order | The amount of all Charges created for the Subscription at the current Billing period including the Charges for the new Order does not exceed the Subscription credit limit defined in the Account Class or redefined on the Account or Subscription level |
| Switch order | The amount of all Charges created for the Subscription at the current Billing period including the Charges for the new Order does not exceed the Subscription credit limit defined in the Account Class or redefined on the Account or Subscription level |
Managing postpaid Subscriptions has the following particular aspects: