CN102222296A - Charging method of SaaS (software as a service) software - Google Patents
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The invention relates to a charging method of SaaS (software as a service) software, which is characterized in that: software charge category, a pricing factor and charging strategy are preferentially configured, and charging setting is carried out; the attribute relevant to the charging is typed-in according to the source of charges; and then the charge type is calculated according to the input value configuration and the charge is calculated, and finally, the charge calculating result is displayed; therefore, only the relevant charge category, the pricing factor and the charging strategy are needed to be configured, and individual development is not needed aiming at the charge mode of the soft ware; meanwhile, the charge mode and rules for the same software are needed to be changed, and only the corresponding rules are needed to be modified; besides, immediate effect of immediate charge can be realized; more importantly, by combining simple soft charge configuration, a nonprofessional person can carry out the procedures easily, therefore, the soft maintaining cost is reduced.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of charging method, relate in particular to a kind of charging method of SaaS software.
Background technology
So-called SaaS is Software as a Service, is called software in the industry and promptly serves.Specifically, SaaS is a kind of a kind of pattern that software service is provided by Internet, the user is property investment buying software again, rent software and use instead based on the SaaS pattern to the service provider, come the management enterprise business activities, and need not software is safeguarded that the service provider understands full powers and administers and maintains software.For many medium and small sized enterprises, SaaS is the preferred approach that realizes its IT application in enterprises, and it has eliminated the needs of enterprise's purchase, structure and maintain infrastructure and application program.
Many medium and small sized enterprises require also more and more higher to the charging of SaaS software simultaneously: the enterprise that has only buys 3 months, and the needs that have used 1 year; The enterprise that has only need open 2 users, and the enterprise that has then needs to open up to a hundred users; The enterprise that has only need use the 100M space, and the enterprise that has then needs to use the 1G space.If adopt fixing charging mode, just different in the SaaS software resource expense that different enterprises use, also different to the cost that SaaS service provider brings, so just require SaaS service provider to use the different size with a software that different charge mode is arranged at different enterprises, real formation as required chargeed.
On the one hand, some SaaS service providers are in order to satisfy the requirement of charging as required of enterprise at present, just at all costs SaaS software accounting module is transformed, reach different chargings and require corresponding different size with money software, a kind of charging demand of every increase, all need to transform as required, so intangibly increased the input of software operation.
On the other hand, because the limitation that SaaS service provider charges, if corporate client requires to do software metrics change (attribute change) before expire-services, SaaS service provider can inform that generally the client need arrive next month 1 and come into force, and can't accomplish the immediately-charging that comes into force immediately.Like this with regard to invisible restriction the client use the function of SaaS software, can't realize the SaaS service field charging as required, used as required.
Summary of the invention
Purpose of the present invention is exactly in order to solve the above-mentioned problems in the prior art, and a kind of charging method of SaaS software is provided
Purpose of the present invention is achieved through the following technical solutions:
The charging method of SaaS software is characterized in that may further comprise the steps: step 1., the charging setting of configuration software comprises: configuration software cost category, the configuration software price factor, configuration software charging policy; Step 2., according to the source that expense produces, the typing relevant attribute that charges; 3. step disposes the computational costs type according to input value; Step 4., computational costs; 5. step shows expense result of calculation, promptly shows the expense detail of total expenses and each cost category as required.
The charging method of above-mentioned SaaS software, wherein: the 1. described software overhead kind of step, include periodic fee and usability expense two classes, periodic fee is relevant with the software life cycle, comprises Monthly Fee, maintenance expense.The usability expense is relevant with the software concrete function, comprises communication expense, traffic fee.
Simultaneously, the described price factor is the software product attribute that is associated with charging, and the price factor comprises the factor commonly used and the self-defined factor, and the factor commonly used comprises life cycle and authorized quantity, i.e. the number of users of saying usually.The self-defined factor is the pairing software product attribute of expense rule according to software, as bandwidth, number of terminals.
And described software charging policy is the rule of concrete computational costs, and this rule is supported the four fundamental rules hybrid operation, and each cost category all need be provided with its corresponding charging policy; Described charging policy is divided into default policy and conditional policies, and described default policy is necessary, and it does not promptly have under the situation of ad hoc rules for the strategy that software default is used, and uses this rule computational costs.Described conditional policies is optional.Finger as the different spans at the software product attribute, customizes different regular computational costs by some conditions are set.
Further, the charging method of above-mentioned SaaS software, wherein: in the pairing rule of described periodic fee, comprise the price factor relevant with periodic fee; In the pairing rule of described usability expense, comprise and the costs related price factor of usability.
Further, the charging method of above-mentioned SaaS software, wherein: the described price factor is relevant with periodic fee or usage charges relevant; The presentation mode of the described price factor is shown as the text input during for typing, or selects different controls during typing; Described price factor pair input value retrains, and whether described constraint comprises numerical range, must fill out, default value.
Further, the charging method of above-mentioned SaaS software, wherein: the source that the 2. described expense of step produces comprises judges purchase, renewed treaty and the change of software product attribute; The attribute that described typing is chargeed and is correlated with is for choosing the different price factors for user's input.
Further, the charging method of above-mentioned SaaS software, wherein: the 3. described configuration computational costs of step type is, according to generation expense source, identification software charge type; According to the expense source, determine this expense to calculate and relate to periodic fee or usability expense, or both all to calculate.
Again further, the charging method of above-mentioned SaaS software, wherein: the 4. described computational costs of step is the charging policy that calls each cost category, obtains the expense computing formula of this cost category; The actual value of the price factor that this expense calculating is relevant, the substitution formula calculates the expense of this cost category; The expense of all cost categories of accumulative total obtains the total expenses that this expense is calculated.
The advantage of technical solution of the present invention is mainly reflected in: reach the standard grade for new SaaS software, only need the relevant cost category of configuration, the price factor and pricing strategy, do not need to develop separately at the charging way of this software.Simultaneously, change, only need to revise corresponding rule, do not need to develop once more accounting routine for the charging way and the rule of same software.And the precision that expense is calculated is higher, can be as accurate as the sky, realizes coming into force immediately immediately-charging.What is more important,, layman simple in conjunction with the software overhead of the present invention configuration left-hand seat of also can sheltering oneself reduces the software maintenance cost very much.
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Purpose of the present invention, advantage and characteristics will illustrate by the non-limitative illustration of following preferred embodiment and explain.These embodiment only are the prominent examples of using technical solution of the present invention, and all technical schemes of taking to be equal to replacement or equivalent transformation and forming all drop within the scope of protection of present invention.In the middle of these accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is the enforcement synoptic diagram of the charging method of SaaS software;
Fig. 2 is the unit structure synoptic diagram that the charging method with SaaS software is applied to software behind the software;
Fig. 3 is the schematic flow sheet that charges in the SaaS software charging method.
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See that in conjunction with actual should being used for the processing procedure that is illustrated in figure 1 as invention is as follows:
Step S10, configuration software charge to be correlated with and are provided with, and comprise cost category, the price factor and charging policy.Before the computational costs, the cost category of maintenance software at first comprises the expense of periodic expense and usability.Next variable part that extracts in the software charging regulation is maintained as the price factor, according to its cost category with influence, is maintained as the relevant or costs related price factor of usability of periodic fee.The pricing rule of last each expense of maintenance software, the arithmetic formula of expense calculating just.
Step S20, the attribute that typing is chargeed and is correlated with, promptly the typing participating fee calculates the actual value of the price factor.This method can be selected the related price factor according to the difference in the source that produces expense.Specifically, newly buy software, need to calculate all charge types, therefore need fill in the actual value of prices are fixed the factor; And renewed treaty software only needs the costs related charge type of computation period, therefore only needs the value of the typing price factor relevant with periodic fee.Import actual value by the user after selecting the price factor that to fill in, participate in the calculating of back expense.
Step S30, the software for calculation expense.At first, get access to calculative cost category set according to the difference in the source that produces expense.Corresponding each cost category is found out its corresponding pricing strategy, and then is obtained computing formula, and the actual value of the price factor that user among the S20 is imported is calculated the expense of each cost category for people's computing formula then, and adding up at last obtains the software total expenses.
Step S40 shows charging result.The detailed expense of the total expenses of software for display and each cost category as required.
Again further combined with Fig. 2, adopt the form of software to carry out running this method, be attached to the unit module of software inhouse, this software includes charging dispensing unit 1, software price factor typing unit 2, expense computing unit 3 and expense display unit 4.Specifically---
The charging dispensing unit comprises software overhead kind configuration subelement, software price factor configuration subelement, software pricing strategy configuration subelement.Be respectively applied for cost category, the price factor and the pricing strategy of configuration software.It is the basis that expense is calculated.Can realize the charging requirement of different software different size by these configurations.
Software price factor typing unit comprises that the price factor recognin unit and the price factor receive subelement.Price factor recognin unit is used to discern different expense sources, and selects the price factor of filter software according to the source.The presentation mode of the price factor is provided with according to it, is shown as text input, selection etc.Simultaneously, the price factor can be checked input value, determines whether to meet the constraint of configuration.The price factor is accepted subelement and is used to receive the actual value of the price factor and pass to the expense computing unit.
The expense computing unit comprises charge type recognin unit, pricing strategy recognin unit, pricing strategy computation subunit.Calculative charge type set is selected according to the expense source in charge type recognin unit.Pricing strategy recognin unit is used to discern the pricing strategy of enlivening of each charge type.Support condition pricing strategy and acquiescence pricing strategy make up the pricing strategy object.The effect of pricing strategy computing unit is to calculate expense.It calculates the result in conjunction with the price factor of user's input and the computing formula of pricing strategy.
The expense display unit is used to the result that shows that the expense computing unit calculates.The detailed expense that can show total expenses and each charge type simultaneously.
Further combined with Fig. 3, the software for calculation expense is described in detail:
Step S201 obtains the set of software overhead type according to the source that produces expense.The different action of software is divided and can be produced different expense requirements.To obtain the calculative cost category set of software according to action.The information such as sequence number, title, code, ownership kind that comprises expense in the set.Thus, be convenient to the refinement of charging.
Step S202 gets a untreated cost category from qualified set.
Step S203 according to the sequence number of cost category, searches the pricing strategy of the current use of this cost category.Each cost category can be safeguarded a plurality of different pricing strategies, but has only one to be in active state.
Step S204, the type of judgement pricing strategy just judges it is the condition pricing strategy or the pricing strategy of acquiescence.
Step S205 if the condition pricing strategy is obtained all conditions branch, judges the branch that meets according to the actual value of the price factor.Return the pricing strategy object of respective branches, wherein comprise information such as tactful sequence number, title, formula.
Step S206 if the acquiescence pricing strategy is directly returned acquiescence pricing strategy object, wherein comprises information such as tactful sequence number, title, formula.
Step S207 takes out computing formula from the pricing strategy object, formula at this moment is to have comprised the price factor to replace symbol.Similar 100* number of users * life cycle.
Step S208 for the pricing formula that obtains among the people S207, calculates actual expense with the actual value of the price factor of the actual input of user.
Step S209 writes down the expense that current cost category calculates, and is added in the software total expenses.
Step S210 judges whether to also have calculative cost category, if the step that then repeats S202～S209 is arranged.
Step S211, the full payment kind disposes, and shows expense result of calculation.The result comprises total expenses and each cost category detail.
By above-mentioned character express also in conjunction with the accompanying drawings as can be seen, behind employing the present invention, advantage is as follows:
1, runs into new SaaS software and reach the standard grade, only need the relevant cost category of configuration, the price factor and pricing strategy, do not need to develop separately at the charging way of this software.
2, the charging way and the rule of same software change, and only need to revise corresponding rule, do not need to develop once more accounting routine.
3, the precision of expense calculating is higher, can be as accurate as the sky, realizes coming into force immediately immediately-charging.Particularly at the calculating of some expense, can do at any time such as the change of software product attribute, expense is in time calculated, and has avoided tradition to calculate the inaccurate problem of expense according to calendar month.
4,, layman simple in conjunction with the software overhead of the present invention configuration left-hand seat of also can sheltering oneself reduces the software maintenance cost very much.
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1.SaaS the charging method of software is characterized in that may further comprise the steps:
Step 1., the charging setting of configuration software comprises: configuration software cost category, the configuration software price factor, configuration software charging policy;
Step 2., according to the source that expense produces, the typing relevant attribute that charges;
3. step disposes the computational costs type according to input value;
Step 4., computational costs;
5. step shows expense result of calculation, promptly shows the expense detail of total expenses and each cost category as required.
2. the charging method of SaaS software according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the 1. described software overhead kind of step includes periodic fee and usability expense; Described periodic fee is relevant with the software life cycle, and described usability expense is relevant with the software concrete function;
The described price factor is the software product attribute that is associated with charging, and the described price factor comprises the factor commonly used and the self-defined factor; The described factor commonly used comprises life cycle and authorized quantity, the described self-defined factor and the pairing software product attribute of software overhead rule;
Described software charging policy is the rule of concrete computational costs, and described rule is supported the four fundamental rules hybrid operation, and each cost category all need be provided with its corresponding charging policy; Described charging policy comprises default policy and conditional policies; Described default policy is necessary, and described conditional policies is optional.
3. the charging method of SaaS software according to claim 2 is characterized in that: in the pairing rule of described periodic fee, comprise the price factor relevant with periodic fee; In the pairing rule of described usability expense, comprise and the costs related price factor of usability.
4. the charging method of SaaS software according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the described price factor is relevant with periodic fee or usage charges relevant; The presentation mode of the described price factor is shown as the text input during for typing, or selects different controls during typing; Described price factor pair input value retrains, and whether described constraint comprises numerical range, must fill out, default value.
5. the charging method of SaaS software according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the source that the 2. described expense of step produces comprises judges purchase, renewed treaty and the change of software product attribute; The attribute that described typing is chargeed and is correlated with is to choose the different price factors for user's input.
6. the charging method of SaaS software according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the 3. described configuration computational costs of step type is, according to generation expense source, identification software charge type; According to the expense source, determine this expense to calculate and relate to periodic fee or usability expense, or both all to calculate.
7. the charging method of SaaS software according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the 4. described computational costs of step is the charging policy that calls each cost category, obtains the expense computing formula of this cost category; The actual value of the price factor that this expense calculating is relevant, the substitution formula calculates, and obtains the expense of this cost category; The expense of all cost categories of accumulative total obtains the total expenses that this expense is calculated.
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