Audience of This Guide
This guide is primarily for:
- Product and sales managers
- CloudBlue Commerce configuration engineers
- Maintenance and support engineers
- Service connector developers
About Rating Engine
CloudBlue Commerce is an e-commerce solution that consists of a variable set of components based on micro-service architecture.
Rating Engine is a CloudBlue Commerce component responsible for calculation of all charges across the distribution chain, including provider and reseller revenue as well as end-customer charges. It can work together with classic BSS rating functionality or act as the main rating component, with BSS rating kept inactive.
Business Purpose
Rating Engine:
- Automates revenue rating in each transaction for the whole distribution chain.
- Automates charge calculation for usage-based (PAYG) services across the distribution chain, from the End Customer to the Vendor.
- Enables providers to offer service plans with volume pricing, combined discounts, and minimum monthly revenue requirements.
- Adds support of new product configurations provided by PLM, which in turn enables the selling of Microsoft 365 NCE offers.
- Ensures clarity and consistency of charge calculation, which:
- Brings more robustness to your business
- Simplifies reconciliation
- Helps in profit and loss analysis
After Rating Engine is installed, the following capabilities are available for you in CloudBlue Commerce in addition to BSS features:
- Volume pricing
- Combined discounts for customers and resellers
- 'Minimum commitment' based offers
For current limitations, please see Rating Engine Limitations.
How It Works
Rating Engine receives orders from BSS, generates charges for the related distribution chain participant (from the Vendor to the End Customer) and returns order details, reseller transactions, and provider charges.
High-Level Architecture
Version Compatibility with Other CloudBlue Commerce Components
Rating Engine is compatible with CloudBlue Commerce 20.5 and higher versions.
Rating Engine is compatible with other CloudBlue Commerce 21.0 components in the following way:
| CloudBlue Commerce 21.0 | |
| 21.1 | |
| 21.1 | |
| 21.1 | |
| 1.5 | |
| 1.1 |