Create a ratecard that lists prices for your business service or business service components. As a service owner, you can create a ratecard for a statement item, which represents the business service that you own. The ratecard is based on the pricing policy method attached to the statement item for a fiscal period.

Before you begin

Role required: service_charging_analyst, service_charging_owner

Important:

This feature is available only when you own an ITBM Analyst license.

About this task

The ratecard for a fiscal period defaults to the next fiscal period if you do not set a new pricing policy for the statement item before the charges of the next fiscal period are published.

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > Financial Charging > Service Charging > Service Charge Rate Cards.
2. Click New to create a service charge price rate card or click a record that you want to edit.
3. Fill in the form fields.

   Table 1. Service Charge Price Ratecards form

   Field	Description
   Statement item	Select the statement item for which you want to create a rate card.
   Item table name	If it is a service catalog statement item, then the item table name is catalog item. If it is a cost model statement item, then the item table name is the transaction table name of the segment. If it is a consumption statement item, then the item table name is the consumption table.
   Service charging type	Defaults from the statement item. It can be percentage based or unit price based.
   Fiscal period	Period for which the rate card is valid.
   Statement item breakdown	The breakdown line details of the statement item.
   Item name	Refers to a record in the item table.
   Percentage	A percentage of the average unit cost, which you can set at the statement item level, statement item breakdown level, or item level of the consumption based statement item or catalog based statement item; or, at the account level of the cost model based statement item.
   Unit price	Set the unit price only for the item level pricing policy. The unit price represents the price displayed to the business users.
   Short description	Meaningful short description for the rate card.

4. Click Submit or Update.

What to do next

As a service charging analyst, you can view all the showback statements that are generated. The showback users can view the showback statements only when you publish the showback statements that you have generated.