Billing Simulation / Dry Run — Executes a full bill run against live data without committing anything, showing exactly what invoices would say. Teams use it to test price changes and catch rating errors before generation, making it the staging environment for revenue.
Billing Simulation / Dry Run lives in the Rate & Bill phase of Fulfill & Bill — the stage where you activate what was sold, meter what's used, bill it right. In the corpus tool index this phase maps to the Billing and Paymentscategories.
The critical requirements that test this capability in UsagePricing's Usage-based billing & metering rubric — scored tool profiles link from the list below.
How fast can you ship a pricing change safely?
The bar: Versioned catalog, dry-run/simulation against live data, and grandfathering controls — pricing changes ship like code.