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How to use the Billing reports

These 4 views are available:

  • Overview Billing

  • Overview Billing Services

  • Overview Margin

  • Billing and Margin Details

1. Overview Billing

Main KPIs Overview Billing report

  1. Charge Amount of the Bill of the last available/selected period

  2. Volume of the Bill of the last available/selected period

  3. SMS Count of the Bill of the last available/selected period

  4. No. of SIMs Charged with SIM Management fee of the Bill of last available/selected period

  5. Bill Charged Amount over the last available/selected periods by Charging Category (SIM Based Fees, One Time Fees, Recurring Fees, Benefits, Minimum Fee or Services)

There are multiple filters available

  • Date (Year, Month)

  • Charging Category: SIM Based Fees, One Time Fees, Recurring Fees, Benefits, Minimum Fee or Services

  • Fee Category: SIM Activation, SIM Activation with MDB, Setup Fee - Integration, Setup Fee - APN, Setup Fee - VPN, Monthly Recurring Charges, SIM Management, Dynamic Benefits, Fixed Benefits, SIM Order, Delta to Monthly Minimum Fee, Feature Based SIM Management, Data Usage, NB-IoT Usage, SMS Usage

  • Fee Type: Non-Pooled, Pooled, Tier base per SIM, NB-IoT access - Base Fee, A2P, P2A, P2P ON-NET, P2P OFF-NET

  • Service: DATA, SMS or NB-IOT

  • Rate Zone

  • Tariff


2. Overview Billing Services

Main KPIs Services Billing report

  1. DATA and NB-IOT Charged Volume over the last available/selected periods

  2. SMS Charged Count over the last available/selected periods

  3. Charged Amount over the Rate Zone

There are multiple filters available

  • Date (Year, Month)

  • Charging Category: SIM Based Fees, One Time Fees, Recurring Fees, Benefits, Minimum Fee or Services

  • Fee Category: SIM Activation, SIM Activation with MDB, Setup Fee - Integration, Setup Fee - APN, Setup Fee - VPN, Monthly Recurring Charges, SIM Management, Dynamic Benefits, Fixed Benefits, SIM Order, Delta to Monthly Minimum Fee, Feature Based SIM Management, Data Usage, NB-IoT Usage, SMS Usage

  • Fee Type: Non-Pooled, Pooled, Tier base per SIM, NB-IoT access - Base Fee, A2P, P2A, P2P ON-NET, P2P OFF-NET

  • Service: DATA, SMS or NB-IOT

  • Rate Zone

  • Tariff


3. Overview Margin

Main KPIs Services Billing report

  1. Sum of Margin Amount (Revenue Amount - Charged Amount) per child of SFT Account and Charging Category over the available period

  2. Sum of Revenue Amount per child of SFT Account and Charging Category over the available period

  3. Sum of Charged Amount per child of SFT Account and Charging Category over the available period

  4. Evolution of Margin, Revenue and Charged Amount over the available period of Months

There are multiple filters available

  • Date (Year, Month)

  • Charging Category: SIM Based Fees, One Time Fees, Recurring Fees, Benefits, Minimum Fee or Services

  • Fee Category: SIM Activation, SIM Activation with MDB, Setup Fee - Integration, Setup Fee - APN, Setup Fee - VPN, Monthly Recurring Charges, SIM Management, Dynamic Benefits, Fixed Benefits, SIM Order, Delta to Monthly Minimum Fee, Feature Based SIM Management, Data Usage, NB-IoT Usage, SMS Usage

  • Fee Type: Non-Pooled, Pooled, Tier base per SIM, NB-IoT access - Base Fee, A2P, P2A, P2P ON-NET, P2P OFF-NET

  • Service: DATA, SMS or NB-IOT

  • Rate Zone

  • Tariff

4. Billing and Margin Details

Main KPIs Services Billing report

  1. All information available is displayed in Tabular format

There are multiple filters available

  • Date (Year, Month)

  • Charging Category: SIM Based Fees, One Time Fees, Recurring Fees, Benefits, Minimum Fee or Services

  • Fee Category: SIM Activation, SIM Activation with MDB, Setup Fee - Integration, Setup Fee - APN, Setup Fee - VPN, Monthly Recurring Charges, SIM Management, Dynamic Benefits, Fixed Benefits, SIM Order, Delta to Monthly Minimum Fee, Feature Based SIM Management, Data Usage, NB-IoT Usage, SMS Usage

  • Fee Type: Non-Pooled, Pooled, Tier base per SIM, NB-IoT access - Base Fee, A2P, P2A, P2P ON-NET, P2P OFF-NET

  • Service: DATA, SMS or NB-IOT

  • Rate Zone

  • Tariff

4. Billing report dimensions and metrics

Dimensions are descriptive characteristics or attribute of your data. Example: dimensions show you when, where, what, why, with whom and how you view data in the report. The metrics are always expressed by numbers (number values, %).

Dimensions:

  • DATE - month of a given record

  • CUSTOMER - name of the account (reseller and or enterprise(s))

  • CHARGING CATEGORY - Charging Category to which the Billing record refers to: SIM Based Fees, One Time Fees, Recurring Fees, Benefits, Minimum Fee or Services

  • FEE CATEGORY - Fee Category to which the Billing record refers to: SIM Activation, SIM Activation with MDB, Setup Fee - Integration, Setup Fee - APN, Setup Fee - VPN, Monthly Recurring Charges, SIM Management, Dynamic Benefits, Fixed Benefits, SIM Order, Delta to Monthly Minimum Fee, Feature Based SIM Management, Data Usage, NB-IoT Usage, SMS Usage

  • FEE TYPE - Fee Type to which the Billing record refers to: Non-Pooled, Pooled, Tier base per SIM, NB-IoT access - Base Fee, A2P, P2A, P2P ON-NET, P2P OFF-NET

  • ICCID, MSISDN - in case of SIM Based Fees, if SIM details are available, its ICCID and MSISDN are provided

  • TARIFF - Tariff applied to Service Usage (Data, NB-IoT or SMS)

  • RATE ZONE - Rate Zone referring to Service Usage (Data, NB-IoT or SMS)

  • DYNAMIC BENEFIT - Dynamic Benefit details

Metrics:

Metric

How is the metric calculated?

COUNT_OF_READY_TO_ACTIVATE_SIMS

No. of Units counted for a given Charging and Fee Category.  E.g., No. of SIMs in a SIM Based Fee, or No. of SMSs in SMS Usage

COUNT_OF_PRE_ACTIVE_SIMS

Volume Charged in Data or NB-IoT Usage

COUNT_OF_ACTIVE_TEST_SIMS

Amount Charged of a given Billing record (in the Currency of the SFT Account)