Integrating BillingCenter and PolicyCenter

The default installations of both PolicyCenter and BillingCenter support integration between the two applications. With this integration, PolicyCenter and BillingCenter can exchange information about the following:

  • Accounts
  • Billing
  • Policies
  • Producers
  • Producer codes

After integrating the two applications:

  • PolicyCenter payment screens shows payment plans retrieved from BillingCenter.
  • PolicyCenter transmits your payment plan selection to BillingCenter and saves the information with the policy period.
  • BillingCenter and PolicyCenter share account and policy period information.
  • BillingCenter sends delinquency notices to PolicyCenter.
  • PolicyCenter screens show links that you can click to view data in BillingCenter.

Important BillingCenter-PolicyCenter integration caveat

As PolicyCenter starts, it sends Producer, ProducerCode, Account, and Policy entity instances to BillingCenter. Therefore, you must start BillingCenter before PolicyCenter.

BillingCenter integration points with PolicyCenter

In the base configuration, BillingCenter provides a default implementation of the IPolicySystemPlugin plugin that interfaces with specialized PolicyCenter web services that Guidewire provides with PolicyCenter 10 and PolicyCenter 9.

BillingCenter publishes the following web services in the base configuration for use by PolicyCenter:

  • gw.webservice.policycenter.bc1000.BillingAPI
  • gw.webservice.policycenter.bc1000.BillingSummaryAPI
  • gw.webservice.bc.bc1000.BCAPI
  • gw.webservice.bc.bc1000.PaymentInstrumentAPI
  • gw.webservice.policycenter.bc900.BillingAPI
  • gw.webservice.policycenter.bc900.BillingSummaryAPI
  • gw.webservice.bc.bc900.BCAPI
  • gw.webservice.bc.bc900.PaymentInstrumentAPI

PolicyCenter integration points with BillingCenter

In the base configuration, PolicyCenter provides default implementations of the plugin interfaces IBillingSummaryPlugin and IBillingSystemPlugin. These plugin implementation classes use BillingCenter web services to send information to and retrieve information from BillingCenter.

PolicyCenter publishes the following web services in the base configuration for use by BillingCenter:

  • gw.webservice.pc.pc1000.job.PolicyRenewalAPI
  • gw.webservice.pc.pc1000.job.CancellationAPI
  • gw.webservice.pc.pc900.job.PolicyRenewalAPI
  • gw.webservice.pc.pc900.job.CancellationAPI

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