DH-900 Party information maintenance
Party information is maintained in Datahub for the needs of both market parties and the Datahub operator. The market parties need each other’s contact and billing information. The Datahub operator needs information about the market parties for the service agreements. As part of the service agreement process, the operator maintains the the market party’s mandatory information.
Although information is submitted from one party to another through Datahub, there may be situations when direct contact between the parties is required. For these purposes, the market parties maintain their contact information in Datahub regarding agreements, billing, metering data, balance deviations and debt collection. These contact types are linked to a contact person and their phone number or email address.
Market parties maintain information of their invoicing addresses in Datahub. These invoicing addresses in the party information are meant for other market parties or the Datahub operator. Datahub maintains invoicing addresses for different types, such as balance deviation costs, combined billing and connection and disconnection costs. The parties can use paper invoice and electronic invoice as invoicing channels.
New market parties are always created in Datahub by the operator. However, the market parties may maintain their own information in the CMS user interface provided by Datahub. Datahub notifies all market parties of new party registrations, terminations and party information updates. The DSO also receives the necessary information for the billing of balance deviation.
Party information can be retrieved using a request event, either using the GLN code of the requested party or using the market role (when requesting multiple parties). Party information can also be requested in the CMS user interface.
Information about the parties is maintained in accordance with the class diagram below.
Party information maintenance events