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To ensure Bill line items are assigned to the correct Product lines, you can select an Accounting Product when configuring many of the billing-related entities used to set up pricing and charges in your m3ter Organization. The Accounting Product feature gives you the capability to map line items to specific Products in a fine-grained way, and therefore allows your finance team to:
  • Map revenue sources more accurately to track profitability and financial performance.
  • Automate revenue recognition and deferrals based on contract, plan, and pricing structures.
  • Reduce manual finance workload by ensuring accounting products set in m3ter flow through to accounts receivables when invoices are generated.
This topic explains by line item type how different billing-related entities assign this mapping to an Accounting Product. Since in many cases the mapping of Accounting Product to a line item type can be defined for several billing-related entities, the order of precedence for which Accounting Product mapping is used is also explained:
Tip: Grouping Bill Line Items by Accounting Products! When a Bill has been generated for an Account and line items are mapped to Accounting Products, in Bill Management you can use a display option to group line items by Accounting Product. See Viewing Bill Details.

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Usage Line Items

The mapping to Accounting Product for Usage or Usage credit line items is determined by:
  • Pricing. The Pricing Accounting product takes precedence.
  • Aggregation. If not defined for the Pricing, the Accounting product for the Aggregation used to price a Plan is used.
  • Plan. If not defined for either the Pricing or the Aggregation, the Product the Plan belongs to is used.

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Prepayment/Commitment Line Items

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Prepayment Consumed

The mapping to Accounting Product for Prepayment consumed line items is determined by:
  • The Draw-downs accounting product defined for the Prepayment takes precedence.
  • If the Draw-downs accounting product is not defined, then the Accounting product defined for the Prepayment is used.

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Prepayment Fee

The mapping to Accounting Product for Prepayment fee line items is determined by:
  • The Fees accounting product defined for the Prepayment takes precedence.
  • If the Fees accounting product is not defined, then the Accounting product defined for the Prepayment is used.

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Minimum Spend Line Items

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Plan

The mapping to Accounting Product for Minimum spend and Minimum spend adjustment line items is determined by:
  • The Minimum spend accounting product defined for the Plan takes precedence.
  • If the Minimum spend accounting product is not defined for the Plan, then the Product the Plan belongs to is used.

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Plan Group

The mapping to Accounting Product for Minimum spend and Minimum spend adjustment line items is determined by the Minimum spend accounting product defined for the Plan Group.

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Standing Charge Line Items

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Plan

The mapping to Accounting Product for Standing charge line items is determined by:
  • The Standing charge accounting product defined for the Plan takes precedence.
  • If the Standing charge accounting product is not defined for the Plan, then the Product the Plan belongs to is used.

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Plan Group

The mapping to Accounting Product for Standing charge line items is determined by the Standing charge accounting product defined for the Plan Group.

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Balance Line Items

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Balance Consumed

The mapping to Accounting Product for Balance consumed line items is determined by the Consumptions accounting product defined for the Balance:
  • If you omit a Consumptions accounting product, then then Balance consumed Bill line items will not be linked to a Product and will be listed under Balance.

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Balance Fee

The mapping to Accounting Product for Balance fee line items is determined by:
  • The Accounting product defined for the Balance Charge takes precedence.
  • If the Accounting product is not defined for the Balance Charge, then the Fees accounting product defined for the Balance is used.
  • If an Accounting product has not been defined for a Charge and you omit Fees accounting product for the Balance, then Balance fee Bill line items will not be linked to a Product and will be listed under Balance.

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Ad-Hoc Line Items

The mapping to Accounting Product for Ad-hoc line items is determined by the Accounting product defined for the Account Charge.