About Pricing and Rating

Pricing and Rating provides an introduction to MATRIXX pricing and rating functionality and describes how to define the catalog components necessary for rating and policy selection. It also provides an overview of the MATRIXX rating process and an introduction to My MATRIXX, a Web-based user interface application you use to create and manage product catalogs.

Before you read Pricing and Rating, read Subscriber Management for an overview of balance and subscriber management.

For information about how MATRIXX Digital Commerce integrates with the Diameter protocol for rating and policy management, see Diameter Integration.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended to be used by pricing administrators who create pricing plans. The reader should be familiar with basic pricing and rating concepts and have some knowledge about pricing strategies and price list creation.

For information about how to deploy and configure My MATRIXX, including My MATRIXX logging behavior, the number of revisions to compile into the pricing database, and setting up a connection to an up-to-date engine for pricing validation, see MATRIXX Web App Administration.

Conventions

This guide uses the following conventions.

Bold Identifies items whose names are predefined by the system, such as user interface controls.
Italics Identifies variables that are parameters whose actual names or values are to be supplied by the user.
Monospace Identifies file names and directories, data value examples, code examples, blocks of code, references to code snippets inline, system messages, and commands supplied by the user.

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Support

MATRIXX Software works with you to plan, configure, implement and integrate a MATRIXX Engine installation into your data center. Technical support services include:
  • Discovery and sizing services.
  • Installation and configuration services.
  • Data migration and update services for pricing and subscribers.

For more information about MATRIXX services, please contact us.