Aria For Salesforce Features

Aria-Salesforce.com Synchronization

• Once AFS has been installed and the Aria Product Catalog configured, Plans and Services will be synchronized by either a scheduled APEX job or on demand via the Refresh Client Plans button. 
• Once you commit an opportunity to Aria, AFS keeps the Aria and Salesforce.com Accounts in sync with API calls and the Salesforce Loader.
• Items that can be synchronized:

  Aria Accounts Billing Groups Parent-child Account Relationships Terms of Agreement Plans Collection Dunning Payment Method Coupons One-time products Invoices Transactions Payments Statements Comments (System logs)

  Aria Product Catalog One-time products Master Plans Supplemental Plans Services and pricing

  On-Demand Synchronization of
  Accounts		Product Catalog
  via Refresh from Aria button	via Refresh Aria Transactions button	via Refresh Client Plans button
  Plans Billing group Collection Dunning  Payment Method Coupons Orders	Invoices Transactions Payments Statements Comments	Plans Services List price Currency Discount  One-time products  Templates (statement and credit notes)

Billing Transactions

You can initiate Aria billing transactions from within AFS for accounts that have been committed to Aria such as:

• payments,
• refunds,
• credits,
• credit memos, and
• rebills.

Account Management

• To create or update an account in Aria in AFS, you must create an opportunity with at least one billing group and one plan. You can also add one-time products and contracts to the opportunity.

• Billing groups: Assign and update billing groups, which define notification methods, statement templates, credit templates,statement contacts and payment methods.
• Plan selections:
  • Add, upgrade/downgrade plan units, cancel plans, and apply discounts to selected plans. 
  • Swap plans, allowing customers to replace existing plans with eligible replacement plans.
  • Plan start and billing options:
    • Define effective dates of plans, plan status until the start date, billing dates, and proration options.
    • Add or edit existing rate schedules.
    • Plan configuration allows customers to define subscription ID, subscription status, status until start date, effective date, dunning group, apply coupon/promotion to a plan and has an option to define if the plan is parent-pay(by default it’s set to self-pay). To set a plan to be parent-pay, parent-child account relationship needs to be created first.
• One-time products:
  • Assign one-time products and contracts
  • Bill one-time products immediately or later
• Promotions: Apply coupon or promotion code

• Logs of account-related activity: Aria Transactions, Account Comments, and Usage history.

Enhanced UI With Salesforce.com Lightning

For any customization, we recommend clients to use our custom section to build any customization that they need.Using this custom section will allow the customization to be part of add/modify plan or manage flows and be part of the API calls to Aria. For more details see customization section. 

Starting with SFDC 4.0 release, Aria for Salesforce is now available on Lightning as well. Aria for Salesforce allows allow users to do the following:
•On add/modify plans(Classic)or manage plans (Lightning):

Data Flow—Salesforce and Aria

• Near-real-time synchronization. Aria Provisioning events are consumed by the Salesforce Loader to sync account related changes in Aria. AFS calls Aria APIs to reflect account changes that occur in AFS.
• On-demand synchronization within Salesforce.com using the Commit, Refresh from Aria, Refresh Aria Transaction, and Refresh Client Plans from Aria buttons available in the interface.
• The Salesforce Loader provides efficient, near-real-time sync methods to accommodate large volumes of account and transaction data from Aria to AFS.
• Batch synchronization via a nightly Apex batch job.  

• Account Management With AFS on Salesforce.com
  • Create and send Quotes using products in the Aria product catalog.
  • Create and manage Opportunities using products in the Aria product catalog.
  • Assign billing groups, payment method and contacts.
  • Add, upgrade, downgrade, or cancel plans within a customer's account; modify plan start dates and billing dates; and choose proration options.
  • Add custom rates for, apply discount and promotions to an account plan.
  • Assign one-time products and contracts
• Aria for Salesforce Data Model

  

• Data mapping
  • Aria account supplemental fields to specific Salesforce.com account fields.
  • Aria product supplemental fields to custom fields on account plan and client plan custom objects.