New Release
PUBLIC
October 2026
Dear Convergent Charging and BRIM community,
We are pleased to announce that SAP Convergent Charging 2025 FPS2 became generally available on October 21st, 2026. This release brings a brand-new RESTful Rating Service for stateless price calculation, introduction of Scope Item 85V for Consumption based charging with SAP CC, enhanced user management model empowering single user holds different roles across multiple clients, and many other exciting new features.
Let's dive into these latest product features in detail highlighting our latest pricing and charging capabilities, as part of the SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM) suite.
RESTful Rating Service
Imagine you are building a bid management system for a logistics company where you need to calculate parcel shipping fees in real time, well before a contract is created, so that you can show the customer what the actual shipping cost would be. In another case, consider a cart management scenario where prices must be displayed as items are added, long before the customer commits to the purchase. In both scenarios, you need to calculate fees against a charge plan or rate plan without requiring a contract. However, until FPS2, SAP CC supported rating only through the CC Core SDK, making it less suitable for lightweight, REST-based integrations.
With FPS2, SAP CC introduces the RESTful Rating Service (v1), a new stateless REST API that computes fees directly against a charge plan or rate plan without requiring the contract involved.
The service introduces two new operations to address these key scenarios:
- `POST /rest/rating/v1/chargeableItemRate` for event-based usage, and
- `POST /rest/rating/v1/contractEventRate` for all contract events in a validity period.
The rating result is returned to the caller as response items containing configurable fields, which can be sent back to the calling system (such as an API client or bid management application) as informational feedback, without creating any billing records.
The API is published on the SAP Business Accelerator Hub.
In addition, the current release delivers Version 2 of the existing Charging REST Service. Thus, charging goes one step further than rating: it not only computes fees but also posts them against a contract, resulting in the creation of billing records.
With Charging Service v2, the API terminology is also aligned with that of the new Rating Service, providing developers with consistent experience across both services.
Benefits:
- Supports price calculation use cases without requiring a charging contract.
- Enables executing the rating process without using the CC Core SDK.
- Charging Service v2 aligns its terminology with the new Rating Service, ensuring a consistent API experience across both services
For more information: Rating REST Service
Also available: Rating Service on SAP Business Accelerator Hub
Scope Item 85V
As modern businesses shift toward dynamic, usage-based services, managing complex monetization processes has become a major operational challenge. As more customers adopt SAP CC, establishing end-to-end integration with the BRIM landscape from scratch can be challenging and resource-intensive.
With the current release, we are excited to introduce Scope Item 85V (Consumption-Based Charging with SAP Convergent Charging), which addresses this challenge by providing a preconfigured, scalable foundation for implementing subscription-based business models. It integrates subscription order management with automated usage rating, while enabling seamless integration with Convergent Invoicing and FI-CA for usage and master data replication.
[Figure 1: Process Navigator for Scope Item 85V: Consumption Based Charging with SAP CC]
The current release supports the initial master data setup across BRIM, integration and master data replication to SAP CC, and includes a sample Rate Plan to help customers get started. Replication of usage-rated consumption for billing purposes is planned for the next release.
With this integration in place, customers can establish a consistent subscription lifecycle, from subscription order creation and provider contract replication to charge calculation. It ensures that subscription orders, provider contracts, and rate plans remain aligned across SOM, SAP CC, and FI-CA, providing a scalable foundation for delivering and managing subscription-based and consumption-driven services.
For more information refer – Process Navigator, and Help page
Detailed blog on the scope Item – Scope Item 85V – Consumption-Based Charging with SAP Convergent Charging
Individual User Multiple Client Assignment
Many SAP CC deployments serve multiple clients, each operating as a separate logical tenant within a single system. In such environments, a single user, for example, a billing specialist managing both retail and wholesale clients, previously needed two separate user accounts, one for each client. Similarly, a user requiring both business and administrator roles within the same system could not previously manage these roles through a single user account. Such requirements often resulted in duplicate user accounts and additional administrative overhead, making access control difficult to manage and maintain consistently.
The current release addresses these challenges by fundamentally reworking the user account model. A single user identity can now hold independent role assignments at the system level and across multiple clients simultaneously.
The Manage User Accounts and Manage Permissions Cockpit apps have also been updated to display and manage all role assignments for a user across different contexts from a single screen.
When a user has assignments in more than one context, a context selection page is displayed in the Cockpit, while a dialog appears in the Core Tool during login. The user can simply select the context they want to work on for that session.
[Figure 2: Reworked Manage User Accounts app showing multi-client assignment]
[Figure 3: Context selection page in Cockpit]
[Figure 4: Context selection dialog at login in Core Tool]
The new model also brings full SAP Cloud Identity Services (CIS) integration: the SCIM API has been redesigned with flat endpoints and stable group identifiers, allowing CIS to provision users across all client contexts automatically. A new OAuth2 token endpoint supports machine-to-machine authentication for service users.
Benefits:
- One user identity across the entire SAP CC system – eliminates duplicate accounts in multi-client deployments
- No need for duplicate user accounts in case of users having multiple roles (business and administrator) in the same system.
- Enables SAP Cloud Identity Services integration for automated user provisioning across all client contexts
For more information: What's New: Multiple Assignments for Individual User Accounts and Effects on User Interfaces
Client Copy Procedure
When setting up a new client, whether for migrating to a new SAP CC system, onboarding a new business unit, or consolidating existing landscapes often requires recreating the entire configuration from scratch which are typically time-consuming and error prone.
For instance, administrators may need to replicate pricing models, and other client-specific settings while ensuring consistency between the source and target systems. Manually recreating these configurations across systems increases administrative effort and the risk of inconsistencies or human errors.
With this release, SAP CC introduces a client copy capability in the Setup Tool CLI, simplifying this process. System administrators can export the complete configuration of a source client into a self-contained XML archive, transform JCo destinations to point to the target system, and import the archive into a target client, either within the same system or on a different one.
New Setup Tool commands are available to support each step of the process: export, clean, and import. This capability complements the system-level CSV-based copy functionality introduced in FPS1, providing administrators with configuration copy capabilities at both the system and client levels.
PS: Note that both the source and target systems must be down during the procedure.
Benefits:
- System administrators can replicate client configurations between systems using a single CLI command sequence
- XML-based transport is self-contained and portable — suitable for cross-system migrations and environment refreshes
- Complements the existing system-level CSV copy, giving administrators granular control at both system and client scope
For more information: Client Copy & Multiclient System Copy
Other Enhancements
Response Item Definition in Manage Rate Plans
While calculating usage charges or rating subscription services, calling applications often need more than just the calculated fee. For example, a logistics company's bid management application may need additional pricing details to prepare a customer quotation, similarly, an e-commerce application may need pricing information to display charges as items are added to a shopping cart.
Response Items enable SAP CC to return configurable fields to the calling application as part of the runtime response. Unlike charged items, which drive financial transactions and billing records, response items provide additional informational feedback without creating billing records.
Until FPS2, Response Items could only be configured at the charge plan level using the Core Tool. With FPS2, pricing specialists can now configure Response Items directly in the Cockpit through a dedicated Response Item Definition page in the Manage Rate Plans Fiori app. The page is accessible for each charge within a rate plan, allowing specialists to define and maintain the fields and their values that should be returned to the calling application when the rate plan is used for rating or charging.
This enhancement simplifies response item configuration and is fully aligned with the new RESTful Rating Service introduced in FPS2.
[Figure 5: New Response Item Definition page in the Manage Rate Plans app]
Benefits:
- Pricing specialists can configure response item definitions directly in the Cockpit
- Enables the new RESTful Rating Service to return response items to the caller for rate plans
- Full Cockpit UI support with field-level editing, synchronization, and discard operations
For more information: Configuration of Response Item Definitions in Cockpit (New)
Response Items in SOAP Web Services
Enterprise applications often rely on SOAP-based integrations to communicate with SAP CC for charging and recharging operations. In these scenarios, calling applications may need additional pricing information alongside the calculated fees to support downstream processing and business decisions.
With FPS2, SAP CC extends Response Item support to SOAP Charging and Recharging web services, enabling structured pricing information to be returned alongside the calculated fees. This is supported through two new SOAP service versions: Charging v2 (/v2/chargeableItemCharging) and Recharging v3 (/v3/recharging).
This enhancement brings the same structured response capability to SOAP-based integrations, allowing external applications to receive additional configured response fields along with charging and recharging results.
Additional Improvements
- HTTP/2 support for Cockpit and Core Server REST/SOAP APIs — HTTP/1.1 clients continue to work without configuration changes
- Support for SLES 16 — SAP CC 2025 FPS2 is certified on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16
- Support for AIX (rs6000_64) — new installer data units available for IBM AIX on Power PC 64-bit
- Support for IBM PowerPC Little Endian (linuxppc64le) — new installer data units available for IBM Power PC Little Endian
- Enhancements of SCIM API for better compliance with TG16
- Bug fixes: see SAP Note 3720217 – Delivery and Information Note of SAP CC 2025 FPS 2
More Information
2025 FPS2 has been released to customers on October 21st, 2026, and is available on the SAP Software Download Center.
For more information on SAP Convergent Charging 2025 FPS2, check out the following links:
- What's New in SAP Convergent Charging 2025 FPS2
- Release Information Note (RIN) for SAP Convergent Charging 2025 FPS2
- Product Page on SAP Help Portal → Convergent Charging
- Business AI in BRIM: Joule Help Page / Initial Setup of Joule for BRIM
- Questions and Answers for SAP Convergent Charging in SAP Community
- SAP BRIM Customer Influence Portal > Opportunity area “Solution Quotation and BRIM”
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