Comarch Inter-Partner Settlements

Comarch InterPartner Billing

Comarch InterPartner Billing enables service providers to exchange settlements and invoices, and share revenue or costs with other service providers. The system also facilitates managing relations with national and multi-national business partners.

Comarch InterPartner Billing covers the following areas (supported by the single instance of Comarch IPB or deployed separately):

• Revenue Sharing enables funds or costs to be shared accurately with many different service providers and partners; it can be also used to offer retail products in the wholesale model
• Interconnect Billing enables managing agreements and partners and includes advanced rating settlements reconciliation and least-cost routing
• Roaming Billing includes inbound and outbound roaming billing – both are fully supported in terms of roaming settlements and roaming processes of TAP and RAP exchange, revenue assurance, partner tariffs and product definition
• Wholesale Settlements with advanced, high performance billing, management of bilateral agreements, routing optimization, integrated trading functionality, and automatic network configuration management.
• Partner Relationship Management  provides core features such as agreements management, workflow processes, regulated services support (BSA, LLU, WLR), dispute management, orders handling, SLA auditing and managed communication channels.

 Features and benefits

• Multi-dimensional convergence
  - Any service type (voice, data, premium, content)
  - Any business model (enabling, reselling, wholesale)
  - Any domain (revenue sharing, interconnect, roaming, wholesale settlements)
• Easy partner and contract management
  - Multi-client, multi-currency and multi-lingual capabilities- storing partner/customer reference data with history
  - Support for advanced account hierarchies with billing configuration on multiple levels
  - Data model can be extended according to the service provider’s needs
  - Partner Self Care portal
• Rule-based, mass data processing
  - Storage of usage data in reference database or in files – saving processing power and 10 times better performance
  - Rating –flexible configuration, no hard-coding; flexible rating resolution (e.g. bytes, KB, GB, sec, h)
  - Advanced and configurable data aggregation
  - Revenue and cost monitoring with warning generation
  - Powerful re-rating functionality for rated events correction and automatic adjustments
  - Mass processes managed using GUI or controlled by external scheduler
• Streamlined settlements management
  - Reconciliation (automated or manual) fully managed from the GUI screen
  - Financial documents and invoicing with customization and flexible layout definition
  - Generation of invoices or settlements for partners and on behalf of partners
  - Configurable settlement periods