Consolidation Grouping Method

What is a Consolidation Grouping Method?

A consolidation grouping method contains a list of billing document fields used to group documents together and consolidate them in a single billing document.

Depending on how your org is set up, a default grouping method named Account might be available. When you consolidate billing documents using the Account grouping method, Billing Central groups together documents with the same account, company, currency, status, and type. You can extend this further by creating custom consolidation grouping methods.

Multiple consolidation methods might be useful if you want to consolidate some billing documents by one set of criteria, for example, Shipping Account, and other documents by another set, for example, Contract and Date Issued.

If you use the engagement functionality, a consolidation grouping method named Engagement might also be available in your org. When you consolidate billing documents using the Engagement grouping method, Billing Central groups together documents with the same engagementClosed Represents a single customer engagement that can include diverse revenue streams. It links together related products for a customer within a given time frame, such as professional services, subscriptions, and goods., account, company, currency, status, and type. For more information about engagements, see Engagements.