Start/End Properties

• Specified at Purchase — (Not applicable to global offers) Allows service representatives to specify a start time for the product offer when they purchase it for a subscriber or group.
• Purchase Time — (Not applicable to global offers) The product offer becomes valid for rating immediately when it is purchased. If it is not specified, the Offer Start Type defaults to 'none'. In such cases, all purchase operations occur immediately, such as associating the purchased product offer with the subscriber or group, adding necessary balances to the wallet, applying pricing, and sending a purchase notification, if configured.
• Absolute — Required for global offers. The product offer becomes valid on the specified date and time. You must specify the month, day, and year and can optionally specify a time of day. If a time of day is not specified, the product offer becomes valid at 12:00:00 AM on the date specified.
  Important: When the start type is Absolute, If a start time is not set, the offer is valid from the time of purchase. If a start time is set, it must be before or the same as the purchase time. Specifying a future start time will generate an error during rating. If the absolute date is in the future, any attempted purchase of that offer will fail until the offer becomes valid.

Click this field to display the calendar and click a date that specifies when the offer is valid for rating. Optionally click the time field and enter a time of day in hh:mm:ss format.

• None — The product offer end date is set to the maximum end date, which is effectively no end date. If this field is set to None, the end date can be set explicitly in the offer purchase call.
• Purchase Relative — (Not applicable to global offers) The product offer becomes invalid after an amount of time relative to the purchase date.
  If you select this option, in Ends in, specify a positive integer indicating the offset from the purchase date and select one of the following offset units:

  • Minutes
  • Hours
  • Days
  • Weeks
  • Months
  • Years
  • Billing Cycle Inclusive — The offer end time is calculated as n cycles after the start of this cycle. The end time of the current billing cycle is included as the end of one elapsed billing cycle.
  • Billing Cycle Exclusive — The offer end time is calculated as n cycles after the end of this cycle. The current billing cycle is not included in the specified number of elapsed billing cycles.

    Billing Cycle Inclusive and Billing Cycle Exclusive set the end time of the purchased offer to the end time of a specified number of elapsed billing cycles. The bill cycle length is fixed at purchase time and does not change if a billing cycle is modified.

• Start Relative — (Not applicable to global offers) The product offer becomes invalid after an amount of time relative to the start date.
  If you select this option, in Ends in, specify a positive integer indicating the offset from the start date and select one of the following offset units:

  • Minutes
  • Hours
  • Days
  • Weeks
  • Months
  • Years
  • Billing Cycle Inclusive — The offer end time is calculated as n cycles after the start of this cycle. The end time of the current billing cycle is included as the end of one elapsed billing cycle. The bill cycle length is fixed at purchase time and does not change if a billing cycle is modified.
  • Billing Cycle Exclusive — The offer end time is calculated as n cycles after the end of this cycle. The current billing cycle is not included in the specified number of elapsed billing cycles. The bill cycle length is fixed at purchase time and does not change if a billing cycle is modified.

    Billing Cycle Inclusive and Billing Cycle Exclusive set the end time of the purchased offer to the end time of a specified number of elapsed billing cycles. The bill cycle length is fixed at purchase time and does not change if a billing cycle is modified.

• Absolute — The product offer becomes invalid on the specific date/time you set in End Date/Time.
• Absolute and Purchase Relative — (Not applicable to global offers) The product offer becomes invalid on the absolute date you set in End Date/Time or the purchase-relative date you set in Ends in, depending on which one comes first.
• Absolute and Start Relative — (Not applicable to global offers) The product offer becomes invalid on the absolute date you set in End Date/Time or the start-relative date you set in Ends in, depending on which one comes first.
• Cycle Count — The offer ends in the number of cycles specified in Ends in. To select Cycle Count, you must first select a Period Type on the Cycle Data tab.

Click this field to display the calendar and click a date that specifies when the offer is valid for rating. Optionally click the time field and enter a time of day in hh:mm:ss format.