ZTEsoft

ZSmart Rating & Billing, as the core of ZSmart Billing products, offers flexible, real time rating and billing for all voice, data, content, pre-paid and post-paid convergent service to support next generation network service. Its unique event-based architecture and real-time billing engine allow operators to place the customer at the center of the business and to have great competitive edge for next generation network operations.

Benefits

Event-based Architecture
ZSmart Rating & Billing is based on event-driven and configurable rating engine. System can be driven by any type of event such as usage, user interaction, the internal system-defined events and timed events, etc., which enables fully automatic system operation. ZSmart Rating & Billing engine let all events to be converted into uniform highly scalable format, process them by pre-defined rules. When new services are imported, no change demand to the core engine.
Full real-time Rating
Based on the capability of online charging, operators can realize real-time balance control according to users’ credit so as to minimize fraud and revenue leakage.
The online rating engine realizes pre-paid and post-paid, wireline-wireless real convergence.
Complicated Price Plan Support
ZSmart supports flexible definition of price plans in terms of various event attributes, such as duration, traffic volume, content, location and the third party needs, etc. Roaming charging is also supported.
Various linear and non-linear pricing strategies can be implemented, such as ceiling, bottom limit and bonus.
Script explanation function that imbedded in rating engine ensures development for future complicated price plans
It offers bundle pricing, bonus point accumulated and promotion
Graphic and flexible configurable engine facilitates operators in launching new pricing plans with minor configurations, which accelerates operators’ response to market
Multi-hierarchy Account Relationship
ZSmart Rating & Billing supports multi-hierarchy (no limit to hierarchies) customer relationship and multi-level balance accounts that make flexible payment options possible.
Customized bills in terms of the hierarchy of the customer (or account) are available.
Flexible Bill Customization
It is capable of presenting all-about bill information and customizing any information of customer’s interest. In addition, it supports advisement on bills.
Internationalized Support
Internationalized capabilities offer multi-language interface and bills, multi-currency, multiple tax rate, value-added tax and additional tax
High effective Audit Mechanism
ZSmart Rating & Billing audit full process from data collection to bills generation in various auditing methods, including input-output comparison, historic data comparison and class comparison, etc.
Parallel Processing and Scalable Architecture
Parallel processing capability ensures high processing performance and dynamic expansion for the operators with system scale of thousands upon thousands customers

Functionality

Acquisition & Formatting
Acquiring original events from network elements and pre-processing these events for rating and billing.
Charging

Rating engine carries out online billing and hot billing.
Product Catalog
Defining and managing price plans and supporting Cache functionality for service subscription.
Invoicing
Providing discounting, bill customization and bill generation.
Billing Cycle Management
Defining and managing billing cycles.
Account Balance
Managing the life cycle of account balance, locking the consumption balance.
Bonus Management
Bonus points calculation and preferential policies implementation.
Credit Control
Customer credit limit control.
Reporting
Providing various formats of reports to data statistics, analysis, report customization and Generation.

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