Recurrence with Subscription Manager

Voucher Group Recurrence

Voucher Groups are bundled prepaid plans in the operator charging system (i.e. combined Voice, SMS, DATA and Social Networks services). When the network operator creates plan definitions they can specify if subscribers can control whether the plans are recurring or not. Prepaid subscribers are allowed to opt‐in for recurring plans either when a combined plan is purchased or at any time during the lifecycle of an subscription. Recurrence will allow the combined plan to be automatically renewed per the recurrence configuration. The recurrence for a subscription can be enabled through Web Service or SMS and can be implemented in a number of ways as follows:

  • Purchase with activation of the recurrence (where subscriber has no recurrent plan)

  • Purchase with activation of the recurrence (subscriber already has recurrent plan)

  • Purchase without activation of the recurrence (subscriber already has recurrent plan)

  • Purchase without activation of the recurrence (subscriber has no recurrent plan)

  • Activation of the recurrence (post‐purchase)

  • Cancellation of the recurrence

The Tango Notification Server delivers notifications to subscriber when the operator charging system automatically renews a plan.

Plan recurrence

For postpaid subscribers the subscriber controlled recurrency can be applied to normal plans, not just voucher group plans as described above. The recurring feature enables the plan to automatically renew at its expiry date; this is accomplished in two different ways:

  • Enable the Recurring flag in the Plan Definition

  • Enable the Subscriber controlled Recurrency Permitted flag in the Plan Definition and enabling the Subscriber Controlled Recurrency Enabled flag during plan purchase.

Once recurrency is permitted in the plan definition then it is possible to purchase the plan and enable the recurrency via the following:

  • PMI GUI

  • RESTful interface

Each of these supports the Subscriber controlled Recurrency Permitted flag which allows the recurrency feature to be used.