Manual Billing
Definition
Manual Billing is a forceful, bespoke calculation transaction in SAP Utilities operated entirely outside standard scheduled automation, allowing agents to input custom consumption volumes, flat rate prices, or specialized Billing Line Items by hand.
Business Purpose and Architecture
If an automated bill calculated two years ago requires a correction today, standard system checks often prohibit automatic reversals due to closed accounting periods. Manual Billing solves this by allowing an agent to structurally inject a targeted financial correction (a backbill or Credit Memo). Architecturally, this bypasses the Universal Billing Engine’s standard order processing map; it strictly requires a human to configure the logic offsets, demanding the document be explicitly “Released for Invoicing” manually to prevent unregulated fraud or fat-finger data entry errors.