Patent ID: 8462923

Claim:
A method of applying a payment for services in a revenue management system of a telecommunication network, the method comprising: receiving at the revenue management system requests for services from a plurality of end users via a telecommunications network, the plurality of end users associated with a customer account and including at least one end user billed for services on a pre-paid usage model and at least one user billed for services on a post-paid usage model; requesting authentication of each end user and authorization of each service requested by a revenue capture module of the revenue management system; authenticating each end user with the revenue capture module based on customer account information maintained by the revenue management system; authorizing each service requested with the revenue capture module in real time based on the customer account information; charging the customer account with the revenue capture module for each service provided in response to each request; receiving at a revenue collection module of the revenue management system, a payment on customer account; performing a validation process on information related to the payment with the revenue collection module; and in response to a failure of the validation process indicating a failure to validate the information related to the payment, suspending the payment with the revenue collection module, wherein suspending the payment comprises recording the payment in a suspense account and excluding the suspense account from a billing process.