## System-Wide Billing Settings

The Parallels Business Automation - Standard provides the powerful and flexible billing system that allows:

- System-wide currency in the Configuration Director - Miscellaneous Settings - Regional Settings.
- Re-defining the starting numerical identifiers (IDs in Parallels Business Automation - Standard database) for accounts, financial documents (orders, invoices, payments, and adjustments), statements, subscriptions, and Containers (Containers) in the Configuration Director - Miscellaneous Settings - Objects Opening ID.
- Setting the starting reference numbers and both prefixes and suffixes for financial document numbers (invoices, orders, payments, adjustments, and payment requests) in the Billing Director - Settings - Documents numbering. This setting allows adjusting the Parallels Business Automation - Standard accounting to suit specific accounting requirements.
- Adding subscription periods in the Billing Director - Settings - Subscription Periods.
- Setting the mode of credit adjustments automated generation and invoices handling under Billing Director - Settings - Invoice Settings.
- Creating different discount categories to be assigned to customer and reseller accounts (applied to services purchased for an account) and, in addition used to set up a special partner discounts to be assigned to resellers - applied to prices a reseller pays provider for resold services) in the Billing Director - Discount Manager.
- Creating and using Different credit terms that can be assigned per account and define the order of settlements in the Account Director - Subscription Manager.
- Flexible taxation with ability to use the EU Tax Exemption Code in the Billing Director - Taxation Manager.
- Ability to automatically apply unused customer payments. This setting can be allowed as a system-wide one in the Commerce Director - Payment Processing - General Configuration and later enabled or disabled for each particular offline payment.
- Configuring and enabling the fraud screening filters in the Commerce Director - Anti-Fraud Manager.
- Configuring the recurring billing in the Commerce Director - Payment Processing and Commerce Director - Online Payments - Setup with the fine-grained transactions approval tools.

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