Each Charge Type has a Billing Type
- The Billing Type defines the method to be used by the invoicing process. As each job can only have one Charge Type it can only have one Billing Type. This means that each job can only have one invoicing process, (bearing in mind that you can add lines manually to an invoice). Consequently there needs to be thought as to how to set up the Charge Types to achieve the invoicing results that you need.
Billing Type |
Used for:- |
Basis for Invoice calculation |
Comment |
No Charge |
For jobs which will never be invoiced. E.g. overhead and admin jobs. |
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Job is not billable. Does not require a Billing Consolidation option. |
Header |
Use for Header Jobs where you want to invoice costs from the Subjobs but not the Header Job |
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Costs can be expensed to these jobs but cannot be sold. The Get sales button will display only the Subjobs with costs to bill. |
Quoted |
For billing |
Manually entered invoice values |
The Get Sales button will never appear for a quoted job. Invoicing will be done from the Enter Job Invoice screen by manual entry of a Job Invoice Line. |
Input Based |
For billing |
Selling Price from the Job Cost transactions or Purchase Order Lines |
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Output Based |
For billing |
Job Outputs with a Sell Rate selected from a Contract Schedule |
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Input Output Based |
For billing |
Mix of Input and Output Based is allowed |
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Claim Schedule |
For billing |
From Schedule Outputs selected from Contract Schedules, entered in Contract Claims via the Contracts module |
For billing of Contracts only |
Internal |
Internal Sales from one internal job (as revenue) to another internal job (as costs) |
Selling Price from the Job Cost transactions or Purchase Order Lines (as for Input Based) |
This job is charged internally with an internal sale. |