Billing Plan

Billing Plan (CRM-BTX-BF-BPL)

Billing plans are generally used in either Sales or Service documents and allows “a staggered billing” approach to customers i.e the net value of the document does not have to billed in total in one billing document. This can be at fixed periods using Periodic Billing or when a milestone is reached with Milestone Billing. With periodic billing it is recommended for Service documents and Milestone billing to be used in Sales document.
Further details on both processes can be found below:
Milestone Billing
Periodic Billing
Billing plan items are not copied from one transaction to another, rather the billing plan is copied but the billing request items(BRIs) are determined again. This means that any manual changes to the BRI's will not be copied. It should also be noted that billing plans are not copied to ERP during replication. Each BRI on a billing plan is transferred to the billing due list of the CRM Billing Engine. Therefore the item category must be configured for CRM billing.

Online Help for Billing Plans:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm700_ehp01/helpdata/en/01/3515798ca940399aba8d0984b682b1/frameset.htm

Frequent Issues with Billing Plans:

How to Configure and Determine a new Billing Plan type
Billing Plan restrictions in WEBUI
Billing Plan BADI's

FAQ and Information Notes:

Note No.	Short Text
1046336	Manual conditions are not transferred to BRIs
1112798	FAQ note billing plans