Crestel Content Partner Settlement

Enabling Multi Dimensional Partnerships

Crestel Content Partner Settlement enables multi-party complex agreements with content providers, content aggregators and service providers for multi-dimensional IP & VAS services (SMS, MMS, CRBT, WAP, USSD, VOD, Gaming, live score etc.), and efficient settlement through a centralized & automated platform preventing revenue leakage and maximizing operator reach with content partners

Key Features
Partner Acquisition Enables flexibility in acquisition of new partners easily. The system supports creation of n number of partners Partner Agreement It supports different kinds of agreements such as sponsorship model, slab-based, tiered agreements and two-sided business models to ensure flexibility and ease in partner management Partner Lifecycle management Manage complete partner life cycle by maintaining the account status from registered, active, inactive, suspended and cancellation. The status of the partners can be changed as and when required to showcase the partners account mode. Partner Termination Supports termination of Partners from the enterprise based on monitoring and analysis on continued inadequate performance of the Partners. Manage Accounts Manage the accounts of partners & helps process the internal usage records of partners services in support of invoice settlement Receive & Assess Invoice Receive and assess invoices validating the partner invoices against usage records. It reconciles the usage data records received from the partner and the usage data available with the billing system. Complex Partner Settlement Enables complex revenue-sharing agreements where the net revenue is shared among partners based on their service level agreement. It also includes pre-revenue sharing deductions Discount Waiver Management Enables waive off the amount discounted to the customer, for a particular subscribed service. Since the invoice generated for this discounted amount initially remains settled with the partners , the service providers waives of the discounted amount to the customer but settles with its partner in the next billing cycle

IP/VAS Services
SMS

Usage Information OR Customer Revenue

Pre Processing

Crestel Content Partner Management

Partner Development & Management

Mediation

Partner Acquisition

Partner Agreement Management

Partner Lifecycle Management

Partner Termination

MMS

Partner Relationship Management

IVR

CRBT

Partner Billing Wholesale Billing Rating & Charging

Manage Accounts

Partner Settlements & Payments

Complex Partner Settlement Discount Waiver Management Payments Collection & Commissioning

Partner Performance Management

Usage Tracking & Reporting

WAP

USSD

Receive & Assess Invoice

Partner Interface Management

Partner Self Care/ Web Self Care

Payments Collection & Commissioning Supports payment and collection on the basis of payment modes and payment priority. It also supports Commission Management module which enables configuration and calculation of commission Usage Tracking & Reporting Track, monitor and report the service providers performance. Content based MIS reports can be generated based on trend and revenue analysis Partner Web self care PWSC enables effective interaction between partners and service providers for account information, usage information, billing, payments and credit limit. Partner WSC supports different links through which they can view their usage summary and details of net account statements Partner Billing Enables bill generation of all partners with flexibility in billing area and Invoice & Credit Settlement Rating & Charging Enables offline & online rating, policy based rating and slab/tiered rating. Supports time and volume based, rule-based and peak/off peak rating of bundled services

Key Differentiation

Business Models
Inter Partner & Wholesale Settlement Wholesale, Roaming, Revenue Sharing, MVNO agreement for Interconnect and Partner settlement

Complete off the Shelf Settlement solution Tier 1 case studies for Voice interconnect, Content Partner settlement, Wholesale Interconnect Highly scalable solution supporting more than 1 billion CDRs per day Improves interconnect settlement efficiency greatly & can be deployed quickly

Conent Partner Settlement

Partnerships for next generation IP based services (eg. Voice, Data, VOIP, SMS, MMS, Content and VAS services) for content distribution An approach towards an integrated Wholesale network sharing business model using SSTP/SS7 signaling traffic

Carrier Access Billing