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mGramSeva - 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 Functionalities

eGov billing service creates and maintains demands.
Generates bills based on demands.
push created and updated bill/demand to Kafka on specified topics
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": "EXPENSE.ELECTRICITY_BILL",
      "code": "EXPENSE.ELECTRICITY_BILL",
      "collectionModesNotAllowed": [
        "DD"
      ],
      "partPaymentAllowed": true,
      "isAdvanceAllowed": false,
      "isVoucherCreationEnabled": true,
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "Adhoc"
    },
     {
      "businessService": "EXPENSE.SALARY",
      "code": "EXPENSE.SALARY",
      "collectionModesNotAllowed": [
        "DD"
      ],
      "partPaymentAllowed": true,
      "isAdvanceAllowed": false,
      "isVoucherCreationEnabled": true,
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "Adhoc"
    },
    {
      "businessService": "EXPENSE.OM",
      "code": "EXPENSE.OM",
      "collectionModesNotAllowed": [
        "DD"
      ],
      "partPaymentAllowed": true,
      "isAdvanceAllowed": false,
      "isVoucherCreationEnabled": true,
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "Adhoc"
    },
    {
      "businessService": "EXPENSE.MISC",
      "code": "EXPENSE.MISC",
      "collectionModesNotAllowed": [
        "DD"
      ],
      "partPaymentAllowed": true,
      "isAdvanceAllowed": false,
      "isVoucherCreationEnabled": true,
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "Adhoc"
    },
    {
      "businessService": "ws-services-calculation",
      "code": "WS",
      "collectionModesNotAllowed": [
        "DD",
        "CHEQUE",
        "CARD",
        "OFFLINE_NEFT",
        "OFFLINE_RTGS",
        "POSTAL_ORDER",
        "ONLINE"
      ],
      "partPaymentAllowed": true,
      "isAdvanceAllowed": false,
      "demandUpdateTime": 86400000,
      "isVoucherCreationEnabled": false,
      "billGineiURL" : "egov-searcher/bill-genie/waterbills/_get",
      "isBillAmendmentEnabled":true
    }
  ]
}

TAX-Head JSON

{
  "tenantId": "pb",
  "moduleName": "BillingService",
  "TaxHeadMaster": [
    {
      "category": "CHARGES",
      "service": "EXPENSE.ADVANCE",
      "name": "EXPENSE.ADVANCE_TAX",
      "code": "EXPENSE.ADVANCE_TAX",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "1",
      "isRequired": true
    },
    {
      "category": "CHARGES",
      "service": "EXPENSE.ELECTRICITY_BILL",
      "name": "EXPENSE.ELECTRICITY_BILL_TAX",
      "code": "20101",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "1",
      "isRequired": true
    },
    {
      "category": "CHARGES",
      "service": "EXPENSE.SALARY",
      "name": "Salary",
      "code": "20201",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "1",
      "isRequired": true
    },
    {
      "category": "CHARGES",
      "service": "EXPENSE.OM",
      "name": "O&M",
      "code": "20301",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "1",
      "isRequired": true
    },
    {
      "category": "CHARGES",
      "service": "EXPENSE.MISC",
      "name": "MISC",
      "code": "20401",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "1",
      "isRequired": true
    },
    {
      "category": "CHARGES",
      "service": "WS",
      "name": "Water Charges",
      "code": "10101",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "0",
      "isRequired": false,
      "IsBillamend": true
    },
    {
      "category": "CHARGES",
      "service": "WS",
      "name": "Water Charges - Arrears",
      "code": "10102",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "0",
      "isRequired": false,
      "IsBillamend": true
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "WS",
      "name": "Rebate",
      "code": "WS_TIME_REBATE",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "0",
      "isRequired": false,
      "IsBillamend": false
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "WS",
      "name": "Interest",
      "code": "WS_TIME_INTEREST",
      "isDebit": false,
      "isActualDemand": true,
      "order": "1",
      "isRequired": false,
      "IsBillamend": true
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "WS",
      "name": "Water Cess",
      "code": "WS_WATER_CESS",
      "isDebit": false,
      "isActualDemand": true,
      "order": "2",
      "isRequired": false,
      "IsBillamend": true
    },
    {
      "category": "PENALTY",
      "service": "WS",
      "name": "Penalty",
      "code": "10201",
      "isDebit": false,
      "isActualDemand": true,
      "order": "3",
      "isRequired": false,
      "IsBillamend": true
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "WS",
      "name": "Round Off",
      "code": "WS_Round_Off",
      "isDebit": false,
      "isActualDemand": true,
      "order": "4",
      "isRequired": false,
      "IsBillamend": false
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "WS",
      "name": "Water adhoc rebate",
      "code": "WS_TIME_ADHOC_REBATE",
      "isDebit": false,
      "isActualDemand": true,
      "order": "5",
      "isRequired": false,
      "IsBillamend": false
    },
    {
      "category": "TAX",
      "service": "WS",
      "name": "Water adhoc penalty",
      "code": "WS_TIME_ADHOC_PENALTY",
      "isDebit": false,
      "isActualDemand": true,
      "order": "6",
      "isRequired": false,
      "IsBillamend": false
    },
    {
      "category": "ADVANCE_COLLECTION",
      "service": "WS",
      "name": "Ws advance carry forward",
      "code": "WS_ADVANCE_CARRYFORWARD",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "0",
      "isRequired": false,
      "IsBillamend": false
    },
    {
      "category": "CHARGES",
      "service": "WS",
      "name": "Water Amendment Charges",
      "code": "WS_AMENDMENT_CHARGES",
      "isDebit": true,
      "isActualDemand": false,
      "order": "3",
      "isRequired": false,
      "IsBillamend": true
    }
  ]
}

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"
    }
  ]
}

Integration

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 Water connection.
Amendment of bills in case of legal requirements.

Steps to Integration

Customers can create a demand using the /demand/_create
Organizations or Systems 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

API List

Apportioning

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:

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

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