Usage charge proration
The Proration field on a product rate plan charge enables you to select the proration behavior for a specific charge instead of using the tenant-level proration logic configured in the billing setting. Thus, you can have different proration behaviors for different charges.
You need to enable the Unbilled Usage feature to use the charge-level proration for usage charges.
Unbilled Usage is part of the Advanced Consumption Billing feature. You need to purchase the feature to use it. Contact your Zuora Customer Success Manager for assistance.
The default tenant setting does not prorate usage charges, but this new field has a new value, Timebased, that allows a usage charge to prorate based on the actual number of days.
The Proration setting under the usage charge billing and frequency provides the following options:
- NoProration - This is a default current system behavior for a usage charge.
- TimeBased - This will prorate the usage charge amount using the actual number of days if the billing period is a partial period.
For example:
For a monthly billing period,
The cost per unit charge model is $1
Bill Cycle Day (BCD) = 1
Charge start date = January 15, 2023
Charge end date = January 31, 2023
Total number of days in January = 31
Total usage amount for January = 31 * $1 = $31
Number of prorated days in January = 17
The prorated amount is calculated as follows:
Total amount for the full month * (prorated days/total number of days for the full month)
which is,
$31 * (17/31) = $17