Billing Schedule use cases
The Billing Schedule feature is in the Early Adopter phase. We are actively soliciting feedback from a small set of early adopters before releasing it as generally available. To manage and access features from the self-service interface, see Manage Features.
To better understand and use the Billing Schedule feature, you can read the common use cases of this feature.
- Create single-year invoice schedules on new subscriptions with the same term
- Cancel draft invoices generated in invoice schedules
- Create single-year invoice schedules for charges with different start dates and end dates within one term
- Create multiyear invoice schedules to bill charges within the same year
- Create multiyear invoice schedules to bill second-year charges in the first year
- Create single-year invoice schedules on new subscriptions with the same odd term
- Group and bill charges with staggered start dates
- Remove charges from subscriptions associated with fully processed invoice schedules
- Remove charges from partially processed invoice schedules
- Manually review subscriptions through Subscription Renewal and create another invoice schedule
- Update invoice schedules by adding subscription charges
- Update invoice schedules by changing charge prices
- Update dates and amounts of partially processed invoice schedules
- Transfer owners of subscriptions associated with invoice schedules
- Delete partially processed invoice schedules
- Reverse the latest invoice and update custom fields of rate plan charges
- Update custom fields of rate plan charges for multiple times
- Use custom and standard billing schedules for multiyear contracts
- Use invoice schedules with Invoice Subscription Separately feature
- Create single-year invoice schedules to bill subscriptions with zero-amount prices
- Create single-year invoice schedules to bill subscriptions with zero-amount prices and staggered start dates
- Bill subscriptions early after early renewal through custom invoice schedules
- Bill subscriptions early from standard to custom billing schedules
- Consolidate unbilled charges after switching from custom invoice schedules to standard billing schedules
- Specify blank invoicing dates for custom invoice schedules during milestone billing schedules