Bill Groups

Each customer contract includes detail line items that identify an event group and a rate group to use to accrue charges. On the detail records, you can also specify a Bill group. The system only uses the event group and rate group on that detail line when a transaction occurs that matches all the partners, carriers, and items listed on the Bill group.

Note: The Bill group is inclusive; if you do not specify a Partner, Carrier, Item, and location group on the Bill group record, the system uses the contract detail information for all transactions.

In this way, you can use Bill groups to accrue charges differently based on who shipped the product, who the product is being shipped to, who is transporting the product, or what specific product is being serviced. This provides flexibility during the contract configuration process.

If you use Bill Groups, you may have multiple contract detail lines with the same event group but with different Bill groups and Rate groups.

You can also assign Bill Groups to Minimum Charge records and Markup/Discount records. The system will only accrue minimum charges or apply the markup or discount amount if the parties and products associated with a transaction are included on the Bill Group associated with the configuration records.
Required?
Even though a Bill group value is required for each contract detail record, the system creates a default Bill group for each new customer. If you have simple contracts that do not require different pricing structures for different partners, carriers, or items, you do not need to configure your Bill groups. Bill Groups identify a set of trading partner, carriers, items, and locations used to determine how charges should be accrued for a customer.
Prerequisites
  • Partner Groups
  • Item Groups
  • Carrier Groups
  • Location Groups

Header Fields

Bill Group/ Description
The name and description that identify this Bill group.

Detail Fields

Each detail record includes a combination of:

  • Customer
  • Facility
  • Partner Group
  • Carrier Group
  • Item Group
  • Location Group
  • Transportation Mode

Create as many detail lines as necessary to identify all of the entities that use the same billing structure.