High performance billing functionality enabling the pricing and charging of any service.
MetraNet’s MetraOffer provides a high-performance charging and pricing engine capable of pricing for any service. It allows any financial relationship to be modeled, any business model to be implemented and any number of price and tariff plans to be configured to meet customer, partner, strategic or market demands.
MetraNet has been configured to support:
- Mobile and Fixed Telephony – pricing for voice, data, content and commerce across any network technology
- Digital TV – Pricing for video streaming, authorization of pay-per view, and advice of charge
- Transportation – airport charges (including aircraft landing, parking and ground service fees), mass transit fare charges and automobile congestion charges
- Financial Services – settlement fees for inter-bank transfers, B2B exchange trades, escrow services, running of computational models and content subscriptions
- Software as a Service (SaaS) – pricing of concurrent, named and ad-hoc seats as well application usage events, bandwidth, storage and training/consulting.
Summary of Key Features
- Unmatched flexibility in price-plan configuration, including an infinite number of pricing dimensions
- True digital, internet and e-commerce support through our web-services, SOA based architecture
- Usage charge calculation for services without previous account registration
- Model relationships between events, such as multiple separate charges for a single session
- Exactly match and implement custom charging processes without lengthy code and development processes
- Product configuration screens based on web-based zero-client GUIs
- Tier 1 auditing and security, including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
- Payment Card Industry (PCI)Level 1 compliant for payments
Key Benefits of our Approach
- Unparalleled flexibility in meeting both current and future charging demands
- Reduced OpEx costs when compared to other charging solutions due to the absence of continued development costs and initial implementation costs
- Use of commodity hardware to reduce CapEx
- XML based interfaces and SOA compliant architecture via web-services reduces integration time