Guiding & Pre-Rating

In today’s multi-service, multi-partner environments, accurate usage-based billing is essential for fair and transparent invoicing. Service providers across telecom, cloud, and enterprise IT use diverse pricing models — subscription, usage-based, tiered, roaming, and partner settlement. Managing and preparing high volumes of usage data before it reaches billing systems is a major challenge.

DigitalRoute’s guiding and pre-rating solution ensures that raw usage data is collected, validated, and preliminarily priced according to predefined rules. This simplifies downstream billing operations, reduces errors, and enhances transparency — enabling seamless monetization, reducing revenue leakage, and ensuring billing-ready data accuracy.

Addressing the Challenges of Accurate Billing Data

Managing billing-ready, pre-rated data across diverse services and partner ecosystems requires a robust and automated data mediation process.

Key challenges include: 

• Ensuring billing accuracy across complex pricing models – providers must handle subscription, usage-based, tiered, roaming, and partner settlement charges with preliminary pricing applied before final billing.
• Minimizing revenue leakage – without pre-rating, unvalidated usage data can cause unbilled usage and lost revenue.
• Scaling billing for growing service portfolios – as services expand, providers must process larger volumes of usage data while maintaining accuracy.
• Enhancing billing transparency – customers and partners demand clear, itemized invoices, requiring guiding and pre-rating to reduce disputes and build trust.
  

How DigitalRoute’s Guiding & Pre-Rating Solution Helps

• Automates collection, validation, and pre-rating of usage data before billing
• Applies preliminary pricing rules so billing-ready data aligns with downstream billing and revenue recognition processes
• Reduces revenue leakage risk by maximizing coverage and accuracy of pre-rated billable usage
• Scales to support complex multi-service, multi-partner billing environments
• Supports transparent, itemized billing through guiding and pre-rating, improving clarity and reducing disputes
  

Who Benefits

• Billing & Charging Teams → immediate operational impact: they get billing-ready data, fewer manual corrections, and cleaner downstream processes.
• Partner Management & Customer Success Teams → business impact: they get transparency into usage and preliminary pricing, which is exactly what guiding supports.
  

The Strategic Role of Pre-Rating

As telecom, cloud, and enterprise service portfolios grow, providers require advanced billing capabilities that handle diverse pricing models and increasing data volumes.

DigitalRoute’s Pre-Rating Solution supports:

• Seamless pre-rating across services and partners – prepares billing-ready data for diverse usage types across telecom, cloud, and enterprise environments
• Revenue assurance support through automation – reduces leakage risk by validating usage events, maximizing coverage, and applying accurate preliminary pricing before final billing 
• Flexible monetization across models – supports subscription, usage-based, tiered, roaming, partner, and B2B2x settlement billing models
• Scalable data mediation – processes growing usage volumes efficiently, whether in batch or real time
• Transparent billing for retention – enables itemized billing through guiding and pre-rating, strengthening trust with customers and partners

By integrating DigitalRoute’s guiding and pre-rating solution, providers gain a future-proof, automated billing framework that ensures seamless revenue collection, customer satisfaction, and financial transparency.