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Charging Configuration
Charging Configuration has the interfaces you use to create and manage balance, pricing, product offer and bundle, general, and application-related components.
Pricing Configuration
Pricing Configuration contains interfaces you use to create pricing plan components. Pricing plan components managed through this interface include decision tables, finance and service contracts, filters, price components including charges, discounts, grants, refunds, and forfeitures, and rate tags.
Working with Pricing Plans
Use the topics in this section to help you plan, configure, and manage your pricing plans.
Caveats About Changing and Deleting Pricing Items
Changing and deleting pricing items from a pricing plan when there are already active _glossary/subscription.html in the system can cause errors during charging and rating. This topic lists several caveats to note before changing or deleting items, and provides information about how to do so safely.

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- About My MATRIXX Help
  My MATRIXX Help provides information about My MATRIXX, a web application that offers a central location for creating pricing plans and configuring MATRIXX charging and rating behaviors. My MATRIXX is intended for pricing administrators who are responsible for creating and maintaining pricing plans and for IT administrators or developers who configure the rating and charging behavior of the online charging system.
- Introducing My MATRIXX
  The following information describes the My MATRIXX interface.
- Using My MATRIXX
  You use My MATRIXX to validate and compile the pricing configuration file, compile pricing, and set up and manage user roles and domains; create and manage catalog items and catalogs, manage eligibility features and rules, and manage the Normalizers interface; create and manage balances, pricing, offers and bundles, general components, and application-related components; and policies for charging and rating. Use General Configuration to create components that support pricing items and charging functionality such as announcements pricing components, attribute definitions, denial codes, products, decision tables, Final Unit Indication (FUI) profiles and generators, general ledger transaction types, notification profiles, normalizer templates, and subscriber information query actions, profiles, and generators.
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  The following information describes the tasks that can be performed using the My MATRIXX Home menu.
- Catalog Configuration
  Catalog Configuration contains the Catalog Items interface that you use to create, change, or delete catalog items; the Eligibility interface to manage eligibility features and rules to determine whether a subscriber, group, or device is eligible for a catalog item; and the Normalizers interface you use to edit normalizers.
- Charging Configuration
  Charging Configuration has the interfaces you use to create and manage balance, pricing, product offer and bundle, general, and application-related components.
  - Balance Configuration
    Balance Configuration contains interfaces you use to create and manage price components including aggregation selectors, balances and balance classes, balance state update profiles and components, meters, and rollover profiles and components.
  - Pricing Configuration
    Pricing Configuration contains interfaces you use to create pricing plan components. Pricing plan components managed through this interface include decision tables, finance and service contracts, filters, price components including charges, discounts, grants, refunds, and forfeitures, and rate tags.
    - Working with Pricing Plans
      Use the topics in this section to help you plan, configure, and manage your pricing plans.
      - Planning a Pricing Plan
        Before you create a _glossary/pricing_plan.html, determine how you want to name, organize, and set up the items that form planning a pricing plan.
      - Copy Pricing Items in My MATRIXX
        You can copy various My MATRIXX pricing items to make a near-duplicate copy of that item, which can save time during catalog creation. The new copy contains the property values in the original item, except for the object ID (generated automatically by My MATRIXX), a unique name (user-provided when you make the copy), and the start date/time. The new object is the first revision, so it has the default start date of 2000-01-01.
      - Pricing Corrections and Revisions
        You can make corrections and revisions to all pricing items except balance classes, meter classes, balances, meters, and products. For information about product offer versions, see the discussion about product offers in MATRIXX Pricing and Rating.
      - Caveats About Changing and Deleting Pricing Items
        Changing and deleting pricing items from a pricing plan when there are already active _glossary/subscription.html in the system can cause errors during charging and rating. This topic lists several caveats to note before changing or deleting items, and provides information about how to do so safely.
      - Specifying MDC Field Keys
        Several pricing configuration items have definitions that include MATRIXX Data Containers (MDCs) and MDC field names, such as normalizer template fields, event field mappings, and so forth. When specifying an MDC name in the edit field for any of these configuration items, you can begin typing an MDC name or MDC field name and a drop-down menu of all valid MDC containers available to the component that you are creating appears. After specifying an MDC name, you can specify an MDC field name in the drop-down menu in the field value field. Available fields are determined by the selected MDC.
    - Contracts
      A contract defines either a finance contract or a service contract. A finance contract defines the terms and conditions of a contract. A service contract defines the terms and charges for a service, for example, voice or data.
    - Decision Tables
      Decision tables consist of a number of _glossary/normalizer.html columns that define a set of business logic (one or more condition sets) that can be reused in different circumstances. Decision tables can be combined with a set of results into any type of component table, such as a policy table, rollover table, rate table, _glossary/gl_transaction_type.html table and account table, filter, or priority generator.
    - ETC Schedules
      Create an early termination charge (ETC) schedule that defines the range units and upper boundary of the range.
    - Filters
      Filters are independent, reusable, pricing items that can be associated with balances, meters, subscription product offers, and notifications.
    - Payment Schedules
      You can create payment schedules consisting of different installment payments for different time periods of a service contract term. Optionally, specify a final payment to be applied in the last period of the contract cycle.
    - Price Components
      MATRIXX price components are reusable pricing items that can be included in any number of product offers. They include charges, discounts, grants, refunds, and forfeitures.
    - Rate Tags
      Rate tags are reusable pricing objects that you can set on rating formulas. MATRIXX Engine identifies charges that use rating formulas associated with the same rate tag and groups them together in the _glossary/edr.html it generates. An operator may use rate tags, for example, to separate charges for calling premium-rate numbers from charges for calling standard-rate numbers in the EDR.
    - Rate Tables
      Charges, discounts, and grants are comprised of one or more rate tables that define how and when a charge, discount, or grant is applied during rating.
    - Sponsorship
      Sponsorship lets you split a charge between more than one balance in a wallet using a sponsorship component added to a product offer. The sponsorship component includes a decision table that can select sponsorship profiles, each of which contains sponsorship rules.
  - Offer and Bundle Configuration
    Offer and Bundle Configuration contains interfaces you use to create and manage pricing and rating components including bundles, offer priority generators, product offers, and product service types and attributes.
  - Normalizer Configuration
    Normalizer Configuration contains interfaces you use to create and manage normalizers, normalizer templates, and normalizer value lists.
  - Tax Configuration
    Tax Configuration contains interfaces you use to create and manage tax classes and selectors, and US taxation. You must have the Manage Tax domain user role to enable this menu.
  - General Configuration
    General Configuration has interfaces you use to create pricing plan components. Pricing plan components managed through this interface include announcements, product and system attributes and definitions, currency codes for rate tables, denial codes, field definitions for use in normalizers and rate tables, Diameter Final-Unit-Indication (FUI) profiles and generators, General Ledger (GL) transaction types and info generators, grace period profiles, languages, notification profiles, parameter definitions, pre/post-rating profiles and generators, SH Repository data, Subscriber Information Query components, tax classes for offer categorization, usage quota profiles and components, purge profiles, virtual fields, and usage triggers.
  - Application Configuration
    Application Configuration components are used by My MATRIXX for creating pricing plan items and are used by MATRIXX Charging Application and MATRIXX Policy Application for charging and rating.
- Policy Configuration
  Policy configuration components are used by MATRIXX Charging Application and MATRIXX Policy Application for charging and rating.
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Caveats About Changing and Deleting Pricing Items

Changing and deleting pricing items from a pricing plan when there are already active subscription in the system can cause errors during charging and rating. This topic lists several caveats to note before changing or deleting items, and provides information about how to do so safely.

Problematic Pricing Plan Operations lists several operations on a pricing plan that can cause rating errors when there are already subscribers in the system, and the results of performing them.

Table 1. Problematic Pricing Plan Operations
Problematic Operation	Result	Proper Operation
Adding balances to a product offer subscribers already own.	The new required balances are not added to subscriber and group wallet..	Create a new revision of the product offer and remove the balances from that version. After subscribers have been updated to use the new pricing, the templates can be deleted from the pricing plan.
Deleting balance templates with associated balance instances already in wallets.	During rating, the balance details are found and the balance is considered invalid.	If the balance template is required in a product offer, change the product offer so it no longer includes the template. After subscribers have been updated to use the new pricing, the template can be deleted from the pricing plan.
Deleting meter templates with associated meter instances already in wallets.	During rating, the meter details are not found and the meter is considered invalid.	If the meter template is required in a product offer, change the product offer so it no longer includes the meter. After subscribers have been updated to use the new pricing, the template can be deleted from the pricing plan.