Schedule Generate Billing Events Fields

Here is a description of the fields on the Schedule Generate Billing Events page.

Key:
* – Mandatory.
R – Read-only
F – Only available when flexible billing mode is in use.
S – Only available when flexible billing mode is not in use.

Field       Description
Region   R   The regionClosed to which billing events are to be scheduled for.
Account   R F The accountClosed to which billing events are to be scheduled for.
Project   R F The projectClosed to which billing events are to be scheduled for.
Job Name *     The name of the job for which billing events are to be scheduled.
Period Offset     F Offset to which billing generation applies. You can use this field to apply billing generation to a date other than the day on which billing generation is scheduled for. For instance, if the period offset is -4 and the scheduled job runs on September 4th, the applicable date is August. 31st. Assuming that standard time periods are in use, the Services Billing Time Period Type field is set to month on the accounts or projects, the billing events and billing event batches will run up to and through August. If the Services Billing Time Period Type field is set to quarter, the billing events and billing event batches will run up to and through Q2.
Note:
Scheduled jobs honor the billing mode that was selected at the time the job was originally scheduled. This might be different to the billing mode that is selected when the scheduled job executes.
Period     S The time periodClosed for which billing events are to be generated.
Include Prior Periods       Indicates whether billing events are to be generated for time periods prior to the one selected in the Period field.
Frequency      

The frequency that scheduled billing events are to occur.

Schedule recurring weekly or monthly batch jobs.

Frequency

Recurring Schedule Options

Weekly Select one or more days of the week and update the start time.
Monthly Select one of the following Monthly Method combination options and update the start time:
  • Last Day of Month
  • Date and Day of the Month
  • Day of the Month and Day of the Month and Day of the Week
  • Days Before Month End and Number of Days
Start time       The time that billing eventClosed generation is to start from.