Settlement-Sourced Pricing: send an MPAN, price from the supply's own settlement data (Beta)
Register your ElectraLink credentials once, then call the Enterprise API with just an MPAN. The API sources the supply's consumption and returns the full network-charge stack priced from it: a half-hourly settled supply is priced from its own half-hourly settlement data, and an ordinary non-half-hourly meter is priced from the supply point's Estimated Annual Consumption, labelled as an estimate. Supplies it cannot source are refused with a clear reason rather than a silent guess.
New Features
- +Price a supply from its own half-hourly settlement data with just an MPAN
Set consumption_source to "platform" on POST /api/v1/calculate and send only an MPAN. Using your registered ElectraLink credentials, the API retrieves the supply's half-hourly settlement data and prices every network, transmission and policy charge from the actual load. This covers half-hourly settled import supplies (Profile Class 00).
- +Price an ordinary non-half-hourly meter from its Estimated Annual Consumption
Settlement-Sourced Pricing now reaches ordinary non-half-hourly meters (Profile Classes 01 to 08). Send only an MPAN and the API sources the supply point's Estimated Annual Consumption, apportions it to your billing period, and prices the full network-charge stack from it. The result is labelled an estimate throughout, so an estimated figure is never mistaken for one priced from metered half-hourly data.
- +Register your ElectraLink credentials once, never shown again
Store your ElectraLink credentials from your account portal or with PUT /api/v1/electralink-key. The API verifies them live when you save and never displays them again. Update or remove them whenever you need to. The portal manages a credential for each ElectraLink product you use, each tested, replaced and removed on its own.
Improvements
- ~A clear reason instead of a number when a supply cannot be sourced
When a supply is outside coverage, or its data cannot be sourced for the billing period, a platform-sourced calculation returns a labelled reason and no priced figure rather than a silent guess. Where a figure is priced from an estimate instead of metered half-hourly data, the response says so plainly, so an estimate is never mistaken for a metered figure.