Fully convergent billing that enables the monetization and management of complex financial relationships.
MetraNet’s MetraBill is a fully convergent billing engine capable of monetizing and managing any type of financial relationship. It administers financial periods, generates invoices in accordance with product and service catalogs, and provides extensive auditing and interactive bill presentation capabilities.
MetraBill is unique in its ability to exactly model your specific business processes and industry requirements through configuration of a business logic layer; all without costly development. This approach allows business segmentation in highly competitive and rapidly evolving environments.
MetraNet is used to bill for services within the following industries:
- Software as a Service
- Media & Entertainment
- Telecommunications
- Transportation
- Financial Services
- Satellite Television
Key Features of our Billing functionality are:
- Recurring charge calculation, including concurrent seat and unit dependent recurring charges with flexible pro-ration options
- Fixed and one-off charges, based on service activation, usage and termination of services
- Unit-based, per minute, per-second, per-seat, per ton or any other unit charge calculation
- Multi-dimensional pricing algorithms
- Powerful discounting features, including cross-product discounting options
- Management of flexible (i.e., daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual) and independent subscription and billing cycles and end-of-period processing
- Complete flexibility in designing account structures and billing responsibilities to exactly match retail and commercial needs
- Billing for multi-point usage events, where multiple separate transactions or service types are linked to a single event
- Extensive operational support for the day-to-day operation and problem resolution through a web-based application, allowing drill-down and resolution of individual problem events
- Centralized product catalog with the ability to design and implement customer-specific products and services
Key benefits of our approach are:
- Agility – the ability to adapt quickly to simple and complex changes in how you do business, from both the business model you support, the relationships you manage, and the services sold, ensures your competitive advantage
- Marketing flexibility – new products and services can be configured within hours
- Reduced operational cost – our technology runs on commodity hardware and requires very small teams to operate while in production
- Tier 1 operational and auditing support – we provide an application environment which enables rapid resolution of problems via an interactive web-based infrastructure
- Integration Ease – MetraNet is based entirely on web-services technology allowing rapid integration