Adding Parameters

You can add a list of pre-defined parameters to pricing items, such as catalog items, bundles, offers, and price components.

You use parameter definitions to specify the name and data type of a parameter. After creating a definition for a parameter, you can add it to a pricing item. You must specify a default value for the parameter when you add it to a pricing item. You can use parameters assigned to price components in price component rate tables to set rating formula parts, such as the scale coefficient (slope), constant (intercept), and unit factor (multiplier).

When you add a parameter to a price component, offer, or bundle, the Charging Server creates a default parameter binding to a parameter with the same name in the parent pricing item automatically, and adds the parameter to the list of parameters assigned to the parent. You can edit the default parameter binding to select a different parameter, if required. Otherwise, the default value for the default parameter binding is used during rating.