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Scale calculation period
Determine which period should be considered to collect the consumption and which scale price should be charged
Scale calculation period
Zero Friction now offers 2 different calculation periods for levels:
invoice period
tariff period
Scale calculation period?!
If you have an invoice item with a tiered price, you can now decide whether Zero Friction looks at the invoice period or rate period to:
to collect consumption
to invoice consumption at the correct scale price
Let's look at an example
A customer has a contract that starts on 01/01/2023 and is invoiced quarterly.
This customer's contract has a product with two invoice items, both of which have 'consumption' as the invoice calculation type.
Both invoice items have a graduated price with the following scales:
0 – 10 kWh: €10
10 – 20 kWh: €15
20 – ... kWh: €20
These scale prices are valid from 01/01/2023 – 31/12/2023
Invoice item A has 'invoice period' as the step calculation period
Invoice item B has 'tariff period' as the step calculation period
The customer's consumption for 31/03/2023 – 30/06/2023 is 9 kWh
The customer's consumption in the previous quarter was 13 kWh
The customer will receive an invoice for the second quarter of €235:
Invoice item A looks at the consumption of the invoice period 31/03/2023 – 30/06/2023 and invoices this consumption at the corresponding scale price
➡️ 9 kWh x € 10 = € 90
Invoice item B looks at the consumption of the tariff period 01/01/2023 – 31/12/2023 to determine at which scale price the consumption of the current invoice period should be invoiced.
Consumption of tariff period: 22 kWh
01/01/2023 – 31/03/2023: 13 kWh (already invoiced)
31/03/2023 – 30/06/2023: 9 kWh (to be invoiced)
Consumption of invoice period: 9 kWh
Billing item B remembers that 10 kWh at €10/kWh and 3 kWh at €15/kWh were already billed in the first quarter
kWh 14,15,16,17,18,19,20 will be invoiced at €15/kWh
➡️ 7 kWh x 15/kWh = € 105
kWh 21 & 22 will be billed at €20/kWh
➡️ 2 kWh x € 20 = € 40
Important to know
An invoice item can only have one calculation period. This means that if an invoice item is used in multiple products, it will have the same calculation period for all products.
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Invoice item A is used in Product 1, Product 2 and Product 3
The step calculation period of invoice item A is:
in Product 1: tariff period
in Product 2: tariff period
in Product 3: tariff period
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Invoice item A is used in Product 1, Product 2 and Product 3
The step calculation period of invoice item A is:
in Product 1: invoice period
in Product 2: tariff period
in Product 3: tariff period
If you change the scale calculation period of Invoice Item A in Product 1 from 'rate period' to 'invoice period', the scale calculation period will change to 'invoice period' for Product 2 & Product 3
More information about invoice items and scale calculation periods can be found here: