Managing Invoices

In this article:

General

An Invoice is a financial document issued to an Account, indicating the provided Services. When an Account used several Services that have the same Billing day (see Creating a Service Term), a single Invoice is generated for all these Services.

There are two types of Invoices, depending on the charging model:

Invoices for the Prepay model.
Invoices for the Postpay model.

Both types of Invoices include:

Charges (see Viewing the List of Charges) for Services, the close dates of which are within the previous Billing period.
Subscriptions used in the previous Billing period.
Corrections included in an Invoice and approved during the previous Billing period (see Managing Corrections).

Invoices are issued to Accounts after the end of the Billing period, in which Services were used. The date of the Invoice issuing is the second day of the next Billing period. Invoices use the default language of the Operator Control Panel for a Reseller.

Specific aspects of the Invoices for the Prepay model

Invoices for the Prepay model are generated for the Services that were used in the previous Billing period and are already paid. Invoices for the Prepay model are used to inform an Account about the used Subscriptions, closed Charges, and Corrections approved in the previous Billing period (see Charges, Managing Corrections).

Specific aspects of the Invoices for the Postpay model

Invoices for the Postpay model are generated for Services that were used in the previous Billing period but not yet paid. Therefore, besides the information on the Charges and Corrections, Invoices of this type include information about the used Subscriptions and Payments for these Subscriptions to be completed.

Invoices for the Postpay model are used to:

Link Subscriptions and Payments for these Subscriptions.
Inform an Account about:
- Subscriptions used in the previous Billing period (see Managing Subscriptions).
- Charges for the used Subscriptions (see Charges).
- Corrections included in the Invoice and approved during the previous Billing period (see Managing Corrections).
- A Payment linked to the Invoice (see Managing Payments).

Invoices for the Postpay model are linked with the special type of Payments — Payment for rendered Services (see Payment types). Payment of any other type cannot be linked to Invoices for the Postpay model.

When a Payment linked to an Invoice is not completed timely, all Subscriptions linked to the Invoice are blocked (see Blocking a postpaid Subscription). After completing an expired Payment, all Subscriptions linked to the Invoice are automatically activated.

Operations with Invoices

The following operations with the Invoices are available: