Start BillingCenter in an integrated environment

Before you begin

Set up authentication for the integration as described in Defining authentication between PolicyCenter and BillingCenter

About this task

Start Guidewire BillingCenter before starting PolicyCenter. After you enable the integration between PolicyCenter and BillingCenter, PolicyCenter sends Producer, ProducerCode, Account, and Policy entity instances to BillingCenter as the application starts. Therefore, you must start BillingCenter before PolicyCenter, so that BillingCenter is available to receive this data.

Note: If you intend to load sample data into PolicyCenter, be sure to load sample data into BillingCenter first.

Procedure

Start the BillingCenter application server:
1. Open a command prompt in the BillingCenter installation directory.
2. Execute the following command:
  - gwb runServer
After BillingCenter fully starts, open a supported web browser and enter the URL to BillingCenter.
For example, in the default configuration, enter the following URL:
```
http://localhost:8580/bc/BillingCenter.do
```
For testing, development, or demonstration purposes, load sample data.
If PolicyCenter has sample data, you must import sample data for BillingCenter for the integration to work properly.
1. Log in to BillingCenter as a user with administrative privileges.
2. Press Alt+Shift+T.
3. Click the Internal Tools tab.
4. Click BC Sample Data in the Sidebar, and then click Import Sample Data.
5. After the data set loads, click the Options menu , and then click Return to BillingCenter.

What to do next

Start PolicyCenter in an integrated environment