There are three ways in which billing is turned off:

•      Setting the Date Out field

•      Using the End Billing option

•      Expired billing record or billing items record

 

Setting the Date Out to a date that is prior to the Next Bill Date will effectively stop billing for the entire record, including all Billing Items belonging to the record.  This method has the benefit of allowing a user to temporarily stop billing for a record.  Setting the Date Out field to date prior to that of the next billing period will cause the billing run to skip the record and billing items will not have to be finalized.  The billing can be turned on again by blanking out the Date Out field.

 

To stop individual Billing items, a user can select the item within the Billing Items grid and press End Billing.  A confirmation dialog will appear and, when confirmed by pressing the Yes button, the finalized flag will be set for the item.  The Final flag appears within the Billing Items grid.

 

Figure 9: Final flag and End Billing option

 

The Final flag will also be set during the billing run when it encounters a Non-Recurring item or an item with an expiring Recurring End Billing Date.