The Cloud Management Platform supports sharing the complete billable data using a Bill feeds file. This can be passed to external applications for downstream processing or further analysis and reporting.

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Cloud Billing - Sharing Billable Data using Feeds

2. Bill Feeds

3. What is a Bill Feed?
• A Bill Feed is a file with pre-rated billable data or the Invoice ready data.
• Typically used to share billable details for the following purposes:
o Allow IT Managers info about cloud transactions including cancellations, reductions, renewals and
promotions
o Downstream processing like generating invoices from legacy systems
o Further Reporting and analysis
o Payment Reconciliation
o Revenue Recognition
o To manage credit limits outside the Cloud Management platform

4. Generation and Accessibility
• Feeds can be generated :
o Either from the cloud Marketplace
o Or at the individual cloud webstore
• Accessibility
o Uploaded automatically in a secure FTP at the Marketplace
o Email with feeds sent to stakeholders
• Format
o Bill feeds are generated in TSV (Daily feeds) and CSV (Monthly Feeds) formats.

5. • Daily Consolidated Bill Feed
o Generated on the same day of provisioning
o Typically used with “Same Day” Invoicing bill generation pattern
• Monthly Consolidated Bill Feed
o Generated only once a month on the Bill Run Date
o Typically used with “Monthly” Invoicing bill generation pattern
Types of Feeds

6. Monthly vs. Daily Feeds
Basis Monthly Bill Feeds Same Day Bill Feeds
Frequency • Feeds generated only once a month
on the Bill Run Date
• Feeds is generated every day
• Feeds for Recurring fee is generated
o On the Bill Run Date (for prorate offer)
o On Next Anniversary Date (non prorated
offers)
Type of
Charge
On the Bill Run Date:
• Feeds are generated
• Prorate fee ( for prorated
offer)
• Recurring Fee ( for next billing
cycle)
• Usage amount (for previous
billing cycle)
When offer is provisioned:
• With Prorated amount for prorated offers
• With recurring amount for entire billing cycle only
for pro-rate off offers.
On the Bill Run Date:
• For Prorated offer: Usage + Recurring amounts
On Anniversary Date:
• Non Prorated offer: Usage + Recurring amounts
Benefits • Useful for Cloud Marketplaces that
need to process the billing data only
once a month
• Useful for Enterprises that need the billable data
on a daily basis

7. Overview of the sections

8. Type of Transactions impacting the Bill Feeds
1. New SaaS Orders
2. Additional SaaS Orders
3. Cancellations
4. Reductions
5. Term Offers (offers with a specific start and end date)
6. Trial Promotion Offers
7. Offers with Discounts and Taxes
8. IaaS Offers

9. Overview of the ‘Activity Type’ Field
Activity Type Comments
New This Activity Type represents charges in the first billing cycle of the first SaaS Order
(applicable to both prorated offer or non – prorated offer)
Additional This field represents the prorated charges in the first billing cycle for additional SaaS
licenses (applicable only for prorated offers)
Recurring Represents recurring amount charged in subsequent billing cycles (prorated offers)
Represents additional licenses as well as recurring amount charged in subsequent billing
cycles (Non-prorated offers)
Cancellation Represents SaaS Offers that are de-provisioned
Reduction Represents reductions in the SaaS licenses
Usage Represent the usage line items (either IaaS service or usage based SaaS services)
Custom Trial To indicate that the subscription is associated with a Custom Trial promotion
Once the subscription is converted to a paid subscription, it will follow the same rules as
regular subscription

10. Representing the Customer details
Indicating the Reseller details
Displaying the Price/Amount to be paid by the Customer

11. Monthly Bill Feed generated on Bill Run Date- 1st of the month
Assuming First Order for a prorated offer is provisioned on 10th August; Additional Order on 15th August;
Sample Monthly Feed extract for New and Additional Orders
New Order for a NON Prorated Offer
Assuming First Order for a Non prorated offer is provisioned on 23rd August.

12. Daily Bill Feed generated on 10th August for a New Order
This feed includes prorate and setup fees. Recurring fees will be displayed as part of the Feed generated on the Bill Run Date
Sample Daily Feed extracts for New and Additional Orders
Daily Bill Feed generated on 15th August for a Additional order
This feed includes prorate.
Daily Bill Feed generated on 1st September for Recurring Fees
This feed includes recurring fees for New and Additional order

13. Cancellation entries in the Bill Feed
Reduction entries in the Bill Feed
Sample extracts for Cancellations and Reductions in Feeds

14. Representing Term Subscriptions and Tier Pricing
First Term Order
Additional SaaS licenses that get the benefit of Tier Pricing

15. Trials in Bill Feeds
Note – There will be no record in the Bill Feed on the expiry of the Trial
– Trial converted to a Paid subscription will be displayed as a New service in Bill Feed and follow the same rules
Discounts in Bill Feeds
Displaying Trials and Discounts

16. Displaying IAAS Charges with Granular details

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