Guiding and Pre-Rating
Usage data from multiple services and systems must be validated, enriched, and associated with the right customer, account, product, contract, or billing identifier before rating and billing. As pricing models become more complex, Guiding and Pre-rating helps prepare and direct high volumes of usage data to the appropriate rating path, applying configurable business logic to provide consistent, billing-ready data for accurate charging and billing.
CSPs’ key Guiding & Pre-rating Challenges
01
Complex Pricing & Charging Models
Usage-based, tiered, differentiated, and partner-specific commercial models increase the complexity of preparing usage for accurate rating and billing.
02
Correct Usage Association
Usage records must be accurately associated with the right customer, billing account, product, contract, or rating context before they are rated.
03
Usage Data Quality & Accuracy
Incomplete, inconsistent, or incorrectly prepared usage data can result in rating errors, billing inaccuracies, disputes, and revenue leakage.
04
Growing Scale & Operational Complexity
Expanding service portfolios, partner ecosystems, and usage volumes make manual usage preparation and exception handling increasingly difficult to scale.
How We Help CSPs Manage Guiding and Pre-Rating
Accurate Usage Guiding
Associate usage with the right customer, account, product, contract, or rating context before downstream rating and billing.
Revenue Protection
Apply configurable pre-rating and guiding logic where required, helping prepare billable usage before downstream rating and billing.
Validated Usage Preparation
Collect, validate, enrich, and prepare usage data to provide consistent input for downstream rating and billing.
Scalable Usage Processing
Prepare high volumes of usage data from multiple services and systems, helping downstream rating and billing processes keep pace as usage grows.
Configurable Pre-rating
Prepare usage data for downstream rating and billing with configurable business rules, enrichment, validation, aggregation, and routing.
Billing Transparency
Provide enriched and traceable usage data to support clearer billing and reduce billing disputes.