Consumption Schedule Data Flow

Consumption schedules are associated with a product through a linking object called the Product Consumption Schedule. You can create one from your product's Product Consumption Schedule related list, then give it a lookup to your desired consumption schedule. The product consumption schedule has a one-to-many relationship with products, which lets you associate multiple schedules with the same product. You can also associate one consumption schedule with several products. For more information, check out Consumption Schedule Relationships.

When you quote your usage product, Salesforce CPQ creates a quote line consumption schedule and quote line consumption rates and relates them to the resulting quote line.

When you order your quote, and when you contract an order, Salesforce CPQ also creates unique consumption schedules and rates for the resulting subscriptions and order products from your usage product. Each schedule and rate inherits its field values from the original consumption schedule and rates related to your product. This way, you can track the values of the schedules and rates during each stage of your transaction.

Important For changes to order product consumption rates and subscription consumption rates, you must use a custom action plugin. For existing quote line consumption rates, you can make inline edits or use a custom action plugin. Be aware that custom script changes do override any manual edits.

Note Consumption schedules, consumption rates, and product consumption schedules are Salesforce objects. Quote line consumption schedules, order product consumption schedules, and subscription consumption schedules are Salesforce CPQ objects.