Billing Service

Overview

The main objective of the billing module is to serve the Bill for all revenue Business services. To serve the Bill, Billing-Service requires demand. Demands will be prepared by Revenue modules and stored by billing based on which it will generate the Bill.

Pre-requisites

Prior Knowledge of Java/J2EE.
Prior Knowledge of Spring Boot.
Prior Knowledge of KAFKA
Prior Knowledge of REST APIs and related concepts like path parameters, headers, JSON, etc.
Prior knowledge of the demand-based systems.
Following services should be up and running:
- user
- MDMS
- Id-Gen
- URL-Shortening
- notification-sms

Key Functionality

eGov billing service creates and maintains demands.
Generates bills based on demands.
Updates the demands from payment when the collection service takes a payment.

Deployment Details

Deploy the latest image of the billing service available.

Configuration Details

In the MDMS data configuration, the following master data is needed for the functionality of the billing.

MDMS

Business Service JSON

{
  "tenantId": "pb",
  "moduleName": "BillingService",
  "BusinessService": [
    {
      "businessService": "PropertyTax",
      "code": "PT",
      "isBillAmendmentEnabled":"true",
      "collectionModesNotAllowed": [
        "DD","OFFLINE_NEFT","OFFLINE_RTGS","POSTAL_ORDER"
      ],
      "partPaymentAllowed": true,
      "minAmountPayable":100,
      "isAdvanceAllowed": false,
      "demandUpdateTime": 86400000,
      "isVoucherCreationEnabled": true,
      "billGineiURL" : "egov-searcher/bill-genie/billswithaddranduser/_get"
    },
    {
      "businessService": "WaterCharges",
      "code": "WC",
      "isBillAmendmentEnabled":"true",
      "collectionModesNotAllowed": [
        "DD","OFFLINE_NEFT","OFFLINE_RTGS","POSTAL_ORDER"
      ],
      "partPaymentAllowed": false,
      "isAdvanceAllowed": true,
      "demandUpdateTime": 86400000,
      "isVoucherCreationEnabled": false
    },
    {
      "businessService": "TradeLicense",
      "code": "TL",
      "collectionModesNotAllowed": [
        "DD","OFFLINE_NEFT","OFFLINE_RTGS","POSTAL_ORDER"
      ],
      "partPaymentAllowed": false,
      "isAdvanceAllowed": false,
      "demandUpdateTime": 604800000,
      "isVoucherCreationEnabled": true
    }
  ]
}

TAX-Head JSON

{
  "tenantId": "pb",
  "moduleName": "BillingService",
  "TaxHeadMaster": [
    {
      "category": "ADVANCE_COLLECTION",
      "service": "PT",
      "name": "Pt advance carry forward",
      "code": "PT_ADVANCE_CARRYFORWARD",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "0",
      "isRequired": false
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "PT",
      "name": "Pt owner exemption",
      "code": "PT_OWNER_EXEMPTION",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": true,
      "order": "5",
      "isRequired": false
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "PT",
      "name": "Pt time rebate",
      "code": "PT_TIME_REBATE",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": true,
      "order": "2",
      "isRequired": false
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "PT",
      "name": "Pt unit usage excemption",
      "code": "PT_UNIT_USAGE_EXEMPTION",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": true,
      "order": "6",
      "isRequired": false
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "PT",
      "name": "Pt adhoc penalty",
      "code": "PT_ADHOC_PENALTY",
      "isDebit": false,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "1",
      "isRequired": false
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "PT",
      "name": "propertytax",
      "code": "PT_TAX",
      "isDebit": false,
      "isActualDemand": true,
      "order": "0",
      "isRequired": false
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "PT",
      "name": "Pt fire cess",
      "code": "PT_FIRE_CESS",
      "isDebit": false,
      "isActualDemand": true,
      "order": "7",
      "isRequired": false
    }
  ]
}

Tax-Period JSON

{
  "tenantId": "pb",
  "moduleName": "BillingService",
  "TaxPeriod": [
    {
      "fromDate": 1554076799000,
      "toDate": 1585679399000,
      "periodCycle": "ANNUAL",
      "service": "PT",
      "code": "PTAN2019",
      "financialYear": "2019-20"
    },
    {
      "fromDate": 1522540800000,
      "toDate": 1554076799000,
      "periodCycle": "ANNUAL",
      "service": "PT",
      "code": "PTAN2018",
      "financialYear": "2018-19"
    },
    {
      "fromDate": 1491004800000,
      "toDate": 1522540798000,
      "periodCycle": "ANNUAL",
      "service": "PT",
      "code": "PTAN2017",
      "financialYear": "2017-18"
    },
    {
      "fromDate": 1459468800000,
      "toDate": 1491004799000,
      "periodCycle": "ANNUAL",
      "service": "PT",
      "code": "PTAN2016",
      "financialYear": "2016-17"
    },
    {
      "fromDate": 1522540800000,
      "toDate": 1554076799000,
      "periodCycle": "ANNUAL",
      "service": "TL",
      "code": "TLAN2018",
      "financialYear": "2018-19"
    }
  ]
}

bs.businesscode.demand.updateurl

{

"PT":"http://pt-calculator-v2:8080/pt-calculator-v2/propertytax/_updatedemand",

"TL":""

}

Each module’s application calculator should provide its own update URL. if not present then a new bill will be generated without making any changes to the demand.

bs.bill.billnumber.format

BILLNO-{module}-[SEQ_egbs_billnumber{tenantid}]

IdGen format for the bill number

bs.amendment.idbs.bill.billnumber.format

BILLNO-{module}-[SEQ_egbs_billnumber{tenantid}]

is.amendment.workflow.enabled

true/false

enable disable workflow of bill amendment

Integration Details

Integration Scope

Billing service can be integrated with any organization or system that wants a demand-based payment system.

Integration Benefits

Easy to create and simple process of generating bills from demands
The amalgamation of bills period-wise for a single entity like PT or Water connection.
Amendment of bills in case of legal requirements.

Steps to Integration

Customer can create a demand using the /demand/_create
Organization or System can search the demand using /demand/_searchendpoint
Once the demand is raised the system can call /demand/_update endpoint to update the demand as per need.
Bills can be generated using, which is a self-managing API that generates a new bill only when the old one expires /bill/_fetchbill.
Bills can be searched using /bill/_search.
Amendment facility can be used in case of a legal issue to add values to existing demands using /amendment/_create and /amendment/_update can be used to cancel the created ones or update workflow if configured.

Interaction Diagram

Interaction Diagram V1.1:

Reference Docs

Doc Links

Title

Link

Id-Gen service

url-shortening

MDMS

API List

Title

Link

/demand/_create, _update, _search

https://www.getpostman.com/collections/900d99a85d083fb2d377

/bill/_fetchbill, _search

https://www.getpostman.com/collections/900d99a85d083fb2d377

/amendment/_create, _update

https://www.getpostman.com/collections/b195d3b1d354c767b6bd

Apportioning FAQs

What is apportioning?

Adjusting the receivable amount with the individual tax head.

Types of apportioning V1.1

Default order based apportioning(Based on apportioning order adjust the received amount with each tax head).V1.1

Types of apportioning V1.2: (TBD)

Proportionate based apportioning (Adjust total receivable with all the tax head equally)
Order & Percentage based apportioning(Adjust total receivable based on order and the percentage which is defined for each tax head).

Principle of apportioning

The basic principle of apportioning is, if the full amount is paid for any bill then each individual tax head should get nullify with their corresponding adjusted amount.

Example: Case 1: When there are no arrears all tax heads belong to their current purpose:

TaxHead

Amount

Order

Full Payment(2000)

Partial Payment1(1500)

Partial payment2(750)

Partial payment2 with rebate(500)

Pt_tax

1000

750

AdjustedAmt

1000

-250

-750

RemainingAMTfromPayableAMT

Penality

500

AdjustedAmt

500

-500

RemainingAMTfromPayableAMT

1000

250

Interest

500

AdjustedAmt

500

-500

RemainingAMTfromPayableAMT

1500

750

Cess

500

AdjustedAmt

500

-500

RemainingAMTfromPayableAMT

2000

1250

Exm

-250

AdjustedAmt

-250

250

RemainingAMTfromPayableAMT

2250

1750

Rebate

-250

AdjustedAmt

-250

250

RemainingAMTfromPayableAMT

2500

750

Case 2: Apportioning with two years of arrear: If the current financial year is 2014-15. Below are the demands

TaxHead

Amount

TaxPeriodFrom

TaxPeriodTo

Order

Purpose

Pt_tax

1000

2014

2015

Current

AdjustedAmt

Penality

500

2014

2015

Current

AdjustedAmt

Interest

500

2014

2015

Current

AdjustedAmt

Cess

500

2014

2015

Current

AdjustedAmt

Exm

-250

2014

2015

Current

AdjustedAmt

if any payment is not done, and we generating demand in 2015-16 then the demand structure will as follows:

TaxHead

Amount

TaxPeriodFrom

TaxPeriodTo

Order

Purpose

Pt_tax

1000

2014

2015

Arrear

AdjustedAmt

Pt_tax

1500

2015

2016

Current

AdjustedAmt

Penalty

600

2014

2015

Arrear

AdjustedAmt

Penalty

500

2015

2016

Current

AdjustedAmt

Interest

500

2014

Arrear

AdjustedAmt

Cess

500

2014

Arrear

AdjustedAmt

Exm

-250

2014

Arrear

AdjustedAmt

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