Renewable by calendar bundles

This bundle type is tailored for services provided to postpaid customers usually for a subscription periodic fee.

A bundle can include multiple bundle items. A bundle item is defined by a combination of the service type (e.g., voice calls), rate code group (e.g., international destinations), and service volume, measured either in monetary value or service units (e.g., minutes).

Let’s explore the key features of the bundle items included in the “Renewable by calendar” type of bundles.

• Renewal period
• Rollover
• Prorated thresholds
• Peak and off-peak periods

  

Each service volume (e.g., “200 minutes”) within a bundle is automatically renewed based on the calendar cycle (e.g., monthly) regardless of the customer’s balance or unsettled invoices until the customer’s record is suspended.

You can set the renewal period for each bundle item individually. The default renewal period for service volume is “Monthly.”

The renewal period of the bundle can align with the customer's billing period:

• Monthly renewal period – aligns with Monthly, Monthly (anniversary), and 30 days billing periods
• Semimonthly renewal period – aligns with semimonthly billing period
• Weekly renewal period – aligns with the weekly billing period
• Daily renewal period – aligns with the daily billing period

If at the end of the calendar cycle (e.g., at the end of the month) there is unused service volume left (i.e., minutes, data, messages, etc.), it can be rolled over to the next usage period. You can allow customers to roll over unused service volumes to the new cycle, up to a maximum of three times.

By default, the rollover is not set for bundle items. You can select the maximum number of renewal periods for which unused service volume can be rolled over. For instance, if you select “2” in the Allowed number of rollovers option, the unused traffic left over from the first month will be rolled over to the second month and if not used completely, to the third month (two rollovers). Note that unused service volume that's not completely used by the end of the third month expires.

If unused traffic from two or more usage periods is rolled over to the next one, the service volume with the earliest expiration time is used first.

You can control service volume allocation for incomplete billing periods by providing service volume in full or prorated according to the remaining days in the period.

To enable prorating, open a bundle item with 1000 minutes and select “Common prorating” in the Prorate thresholds for first usage period field.

By default, the prorating is disabled and the service volume is provided in full for an incomplete billing period.

To see how it works when one prorated bundle replaces another, refer to the Change of the prorated "Renewable by calendar" bundles section for more details.

By default, bundles work the same during peak and off-peak times, so the consumed service units are deducted from the allocated amount regardless of the period. You can create a bundle with different thresholds for peak and off-peak periods, including separate thresholds for first and second off-peak periods. Refer to the Creating a service with multiple off-peak periods handbook for the steps to define off-peak periods and set different prices for them.