ChargeCategory

ChargeCategory classifies a billing row by its financial behavior, including usage, purchases, credits, adjustments, and tax. The category determines how signed amounts should be interpreted and summarized.

Consumers must preserve the category rather than inferring it solely from whether cost is positive or negative.

In Meridian, ChargeCategory controls spend, reduction, and tax treatment during canonicalization.

Related terms

• Agent spend attribution
• Agent FinOps vs. TokenOps
• Settlement vs. billing vs. attribution
• System of record for AI labor
• Agent FinOps
• AI labor
• Spend under management
• Attribution readiness
• Cost per outcome
• AI spend assessment
• Unattributed spend
• Agent inventory
• Chargeback in an AI context
• Zero-Access assessment
• FOCUS
• BilledCost
• EffectiveCost
• ChargePeriod
• ServiceCategory
• Provider, Publisher, ServiceProvider, and HostProvider
• Contract Commitment dataset
• Invoice Detail dataset
• Virtual currency and token columns
• Journal entry
• Suspense account
• Accrual
• Chargeback vs. showback
• Subledger
• Tie-out and reconciliation
• Trial balance
• Dimensions and worktags
• OASA specification
• The Missing Ledger