Tier Shared Pricing in a Plan Instance Hierarchy
Aria Allegro supports tier references shared across usage types within a master plan instance hierarchy. Individual or identical tier rates apply using the shared accumulator reference to evaluate tiers.
Consider the following example:
- A master plan instance supports four usage types for a VOICE service, including one international call type.
- One add-on plan has one usage type for a DATA service.
- A second add-on plan has two usage types for SMS service: national and international.
- All usage except international VOICE and SMS accumulates to a common tier reference across the remaining usage types.
Expected Result
Individual usage type tier rates apply based on cumulative accumulation across a subset of usage types in the master plan instance hierarchy.
Variants
- Individual usage type tier rates apply based on cumulative accumulation across a subset of usage types spanning any number of plan instances under a master plan instance hierarchy at any depth supported in core Aria.
Setup
- Pre-configure a combined accumulator for non-international VOICE and SMS quantity or amount accumulation.
- Set up the plan, plan rate schedule, and plan services in core Aria.
- Set up price offers for the seven usage types (four VOICE, one DATA, two SMS). For the five non-international VOICE and SMS usage type price offers, set the tier as Progressive Balance Based with the balance reference set to the combined accumulator configured in step 1.
- When adding tier rates for the five price offers, add the accumulator impact using the same accumulator. This causes the five usage types to accumulate during the billing cycle and uses the accumulated value to evaluate the tier for each usage record.