Initial billing setup

This guide explains how the billing module is set up.

Packages

Create packages for fees that shall be billed monthly and are independent of reservations.

Use cases:

• Membership cards: membership fee with different tariffs, e.g. regular, reduced.

• Additional insurance

• Billing package for serviced carsharing group

Package assignments

With package assignments you can assign defined packages to payers. The start and end of the billing period can be defined.

Reservation rates

Create reservation rates. Per reservation rate you can define different fees: time fees, booking fee, distance fee, ...

Billing clusters

With billing clusters you can group several vehicles and assign a single default reservation rate to them. Furthermore you set the beneficiary, i.e. the entity that will receive the revenues. The invoicing party is the entity that will issue the invoice. And the deduction rate is the rate that is kept by the invoicing party for the billing service.

Note: only those vehicles that are included in a billing cluster will be billed!

Payment adoptions

With payment adoptions you can define that reservation payments are adopted by other payers. It can be distinguished between reservation purposes.

Use cases:

• Company A adopts all reservation payments with purpose "business" for user X, who is an employee of that company.

• The mother adopts all reservation payments of her son.

This concept is very powerful and allows for flexible payment adoptions.

Tariff exceptions

With tariff exceptions you can assign a special reservation rate per vehicle to selected users.

Use cases:

• User A is owner of vehicle V and thus does not have to pay for reservations. Just assign a "Zero reservation rate" for vehicle V and user A.