Life Cycle

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Example This is a business cycle of RebateManager usage:

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This is an example of a Rebate Agreement that is paid semi-annually.:

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Agreement

1. Before the year starts:

   1. the agreement Agreement conditions are negotiated.

   2. the agreement Agreement is approved.

2. During the validity of the agreement (i.e. usually a year period):

   1. the user User can open the read-only agreement to see an overview of the rebate estimations and accruals.

Rebate Record

1. During the validity of the RR:

   • the Rebate Record is periodically recalculated to have the new rebate estimations & accruals. It uses the actual data of Transactions available to calculate the estimations & accruals. The results of those recalculations are usually presented to business users on dashboards.

     • the RR can create and calculate also 1 one or more PayoutRecords, if it need needs to calculate the accruals on more fine-grained level.

2. After the validity:

   • the rebate Rebate money amount is reviewed and approved by a business user.

   • once Once approved, the rebate amount is exported to expternal an external system to be paid to the customer.

Entity Relationship

Below is a schema that gives shows a broad perspective of the domain types.

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Further in this section: