Particular aspects of charges within the Postpay charging model
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General info
The main distinguishing feature of the charges generating and changing within the Postpay model is that charges for the current billing period get the Closed status after the end of their period, on the next billing day.
Particular aspects of the Setup fee, Renewal fee, Transfer fee charges
The Setup fee, Renewal fee, Transfer fee charges:
- Generated in the New status.
- Instantly change their statuses to Blocked.
- Get the Closed status on the next billing day.
When the subscription is deleted (see Splitting of charges when a subscription is deleted) during the billing period, in which the charges have the Blocked status:
- The charges have the Blocked status until the next billing day.
- The charges get the Closed status on the next billing day.
Particular aspects of generation and changing of the Recurring fee charges
The Recurring fee charges:
- Generated in the New status.
- Instantly change their statuses to Blocked.
- Get the Closed status on the next billing day.
Generation and changing of the Recurring fee charges for future billing periods
The Recurring fee charges for the future billing periods generated on the subscription purchase:
- For the Monthly via balance (full period), Monthly via balance (non-refund), and Monthly Reservation billing types:
- Generated in the New status.
- Instantly change their statuses to Opened.
- On the billing day, which is the start of their period, get the Blocked status.
- On the next billing day after the end of their period, change their status to Closed.
- For the Monthly Long-term billing type — similar to the Prepay model (see Monthly Long-term. Charges generation):
- Generated in the New status.
- Instantly change their statuses to Blocked.
- Usually, all charges are closed right away — manually or automatically with a script.
Splitting of charges for the current billing period
Charges are split in the following cases:
- Subscription deleting (see Splitting of charges when a subscription is deleted).
- Discounts or prices for the subscriptions with the Pay as you go billing type changing during the billing period (see Pay as you go. Charges generation).
- Subscription resource quantity reducing (see Splitting of charges when the resource quantity is reduced).
- Subscription plan switching (see Splitting of charges when a subscription plan was switched).
- Subscription stopping (see Splitting of charges when a subscription is stopped).
- Subscription blocking. When a subscription gets the Blocked status, the mechanism of charge splitting is the same as in the case of charge splitting due to the subscription stopping (see Splitting of charges when a subscription is stopped).
When the charges for the current billing period are split, the status of the charge for the actual usage period differs:
- At the moment of splitting, the charge for the actual usage period gets the Blocked status instead of Closed.
- On the next billing day after the end of the current billing period, the charge for the actual usage period gets the Closed status.