3.1.61 SKU Price ID

SKU Price ID is a service-provider-specified unique identifier that represents a specific SKU Price associated with a resource or service used or purchased. It serves as a key reference for a SKU Price in a price list published by a service provider, allowing practitioners to look up detailed information about the SKU Price.

The composition of properties associated with the SKU Price ID may differ across service providers and across SKUs within the same service provider. However, the exclusion of dynamic or negotiable pricing properties, such as unit price amount, currency (and related exchange rates), temporal validity (e.g., effective dates), and contract- or negotiation-specific elements (e.g., contract or account identifiers, and negotiable discounts), ensures that the SKU Price ID remains consistent across different billing periods and billing accounts within a service provider. This consistency enables efficient filtering of charges to track price fluctuations (e.g., changes in unit price amounts) over time and across billing accounts, for both list and contracted unit prices. Additionally, the SKU Price ID is commonly used to analyze costs based on pricing properties such as periods and tiers.

SkuPriceId adheres to the following requirements:

• SkuPriceId MUST be present in a Cost and Usage FOCUS dataset when the service provider supports unit pricing concepts and publishes price lists, publicly or as part of contracting.
• SkuPriceId MUST be of type String.
• SkuPriceId MUST conform to String Handling requirements.
• SkuPriceId nullability is defined as follows:
  • SkuPriceId MUST be null when ChargeCategory is "Tax".
  • SkuPriceId MUST NOT be null when ChargeCategory is "Usage" or "Purchase" and ChargeClass is not "Correction".
  • SkuPriceId MAY be null in all other cases.
• When SkuPriceId is not null, SkuPriceId adheres to the following additional requirements:
  • SkuPriceId MUST have one and only one parent SkuId.
  • SkuPriceId MUST remain consistent over time.
  • SkuPriceId MUST remain consistent across billing accounts or contracts.
  • SkuPriceId MAY equal SkuId.
  • SkuPriceId MUST be associated with a given resource or service when ChargeCategory is "Usage" or "Purchase".
  • SkuPriceId MUST reference a SKU Price in a service-provider-supplied price list, enabling the lookup of detailed information about the SKU Price.
  • SkuPriceId MUST support the lookup of the ListUnitPrice when the service provider publishes unit prices exclusive of discounts.
  • SkuPriceId MUST support the verification of the given ContractedUnitPrice when the service provider supports negotiated pricing concepts.

See Examples: Commitment Discount Flexibility for more details around commitment discount flexibility.

A service-provider-specified unique identifier that represents a specific SKU Price associated with a resource or service used or purchased.