Credit handling on Fuji Xerox

Fuji Xerox

Default Strategy

  • If the user has an account in the Payment System a credit reservation is created for the user (user without Payment System account has set quotas to unlimited for all operations).

    • If not zero prices are set for the user.

  • The amount to be reserved depends on the user's current credit balance and on the price for A4 color page.

    • If price for A4 color page is 0, then one quarter of the user's current credit is reserved.

    • If the user's current credit is higher than the price for 100 A4 color pages, then one quarter of the user's current credit is reserved.

    • If the user's current credit is lower than the price for 100 A4 color pages, but is higher or equal to price for 50 A4 color pages, the price for 25 A4 color pages is reserved.

    • If the user's credit is lower than the price for 50 A4 color pages, then the half of user's credit is reserved.

  • Then the quotas are defined according the reserved amount.

    • Separate quotas are defined for individual operations: color scan, b&w scan, color copy and b&w copy

    • Each of quotas (color scan, b&w scan, color copy and b&w copy) is computed from amount to be reserved. In corner cases debt can be created.

  • Once the job is finished the accounting information is sent to YSoft SafeQ.

  • One settlement is generated for all transactions in the given session.

    • In case the connection to the Payment System is not available, the settlement is sent once the connection is available again.

  • For each print job credit reservation is created before print based on price provided by parser. Once the job is finished accounting info is sent to SafeQ which settles the transaction. When it is not possible to create reservation the job is not printed.

  • When the connection to Payment System is lost, it is not possible to create the credit reservation in the Payment System, therefore the operation is forbidden. In case the connection to the Payment System is lost during settlement, the settlement is sent later when the connection is available again.

images/s/-3eliqb/8502/404359a7d2ab19c9c7c58d12013124a386b28257/_/images/icons/emoticons/information.svg The initial reservation has a specific time to live, once this time runs out, the reservation is cancelled.

Example

  • User credit balance in Payment System is 10 €, price for A4 color page is 2 €.

  • Price list is configured the following way:

Operation

Price

A4 color page

2 €

A4 B/W page

1 €

A4 color copy

2.5 €

A4 B/W copy

1 €

Scan

3 €

  • Available A4 pages: User credit balance in Payment System / price for A4 color page ≈ 10 € / 2 € = 5

  • User has credit for 5 A4 pages (user's credit is lower than the price for 50 A4 color pages), then half of credit is reserved ≈ 10 € / 2 = 5 €

  • The quotas are calculated the following way

Quota Name

Quota Value

Maximal price available for Quota

A4 color copy

5 € / 2.5 € = 2

2.5 € * 2 = 5 €

A4 B/W copy

5 € / 1 € = 5

1 € * 5 = 5 €

Scan

5 € / 3 € = 1

3 € * 1 = 3 €

images/s/-3eliqb/8502/404359a7d2ab19c9c7c58d12013124a386b28257/_/images/icons/emoticons/information.svg Corner case: User performs all operations allowed by quota's setting (∑ Maximal price available for Quota = 3 € + 5 € + 5 € = 13 € ), but user has balance 10 € in Payment System, so debt 3 € will be created.

Limitations

Quotas are applied separately for color and bw copy or scan jobs.

  • Different quotas are defined for color/bw pages. Those quotas are consumed independently which means that if the user depletes the quotas for color pages, he/she is still allowed to copy/scan in bw because the quotas for bw pages remained untouched.

Quotas are applied only on the beginning of the scan session.

  • Users can be prevented to from scanning only in case they do not have enough credit before the scanning actually starts. It is not possible to interrupt the scanning operation that is in progress in case the quotas are depleted.

Payment System with direct print doesn't work.

Print all will print all waiting jobs regardless of user actual credit. Direct prints are not charged

  • A debt can be registered for the user.

The initial reservation can be canceled:

  • In case the MFP is busy after the defined time to live runs out.

Prints performed from SafeQ are handled individually by YSoft SafeQ subsystems according to prices estimated by print job parser. For other types of print (e.g. print from USB), there are quotas set by SafeQ and handled by the device itself.

  • The print quotas are set during log in and are not consumed when printing from SafeQ. Therefor, when using both print from SafeQ and other types of print in a single session, user can go into dept.

Requirements

Payment System operations require devices with SSMI 1.4 or higher.

For proper function the print job parser needs to be enabled and set to render jobs.