Use Billing Configuration to set billing rates and manage customers.
Responses and Rates, Prices, and Charges
Billing starts when you respond to a ticket.
Bills can have two kinds of charges:
Charge/Rate/Price | Description |
Response: Unit Rate/Price and Flat Rate/Price | These charges apply to each response on a given ticket |
Ticket: Flat Charge per Ticket (Ticket Base Price) | This charge applies to all tickets with a given registration code. It is applied by the first response (even if the response has no price/rate of its own) |
The system adds all charges per ticket response to create a total price.
In the Billing Summary, each ticket’s responses are separate bills (row/line), including responses without charges.
All responses show up in the Billing Summary, whether they have charges or not. If a ticket has a flat ticket price, the first response bills it, regardless of the response's price/rate.
Set up rates. For each registration code's response, choose the charges per ticket, per response (and per facility and customer, if needed).
- On the top menu bar, click Billing > Billing Configuration. Result: The Billing Rate Summary page appears
- On the Billing Rate Summary page, find the registration code that you want to set rates for:
- Search or use the page links at the bottom right corner. Click column headings to sort in ascending or descending order
- In the Code column, click the registration code
On the Registration Code Bill Rate page, make your changes:
Field Description Customer Name The name of the customer you send the bill to.
Choose customer from list or add new customer: See Add New Customer, below
Flat Charge per Ticket The charge per ticket is fixed, regardless of the number or type of responses or units of work.
This field must contain number. To have no flat charge, enter a zero (0).
Response
Field Description Flat Rate The charge per response is fixed, regardless of the units of work Per Facility (Optional) Checked: Set rates per facility
Unchecked: Rates are the same for all facilities
Unit Rate The charge per unit of work. Units of work usually measure time (hours) or distance (feet) Calculation
The system calculates bills by processing the prices in the order below.
Response Rates Applied /Billed First Response to Ticket Ticket flat rate plus any response rates (flat and unit) All Later Responses Any response rates (flat and unit). Responses without rates are listed as rows with zeroes for all prices - Click Save
For each customer, add the registration codes of the companies that they are a customer of.
- On the top menu bar, click Billing > Billing Configuration. Result: The Billing Rate Summary page appears
- On the Billing Rate Summary page, in the left column, click Customers
- On the Customer Summary page, in the upper right corner, click Add New Customer
- On the New Customer page, fill in the fields. See Modify Customer, step 3, below
- On the Customer Summary page, find the customer. Click column headings to sort in ascending or descending order
- In the Name column, click the customer
On the customer page, fill in the fields:
Customer Information
Field Description Address1 Address of the customer Address2 (Optional) Additional address information, if needed Billing Method Billing methods are set by your company City City of the customer Contract Number (#) Contract numbers are set by your company Feet Per Quantity Feet per quantity of the unit Name Name of the customer Operator Operators are defined by your company State State of the customer Time Zone The time zone of the customer Zip Code Postal code of the customer Not Billable Reason
The reason the customer was not billed
To add a not billable reason, click + Add Not Billable Reason
Registration Codes
Click codes or use the page links at the bottom right corner to find registration codes that are associated with the customer or not associated with the customer
- Click Save
For each customer, add the registration codes of the companies that they are a customer of.
- On the top menu bar, click Billing > Billing Configuration. Result: The Customer Summary page appears
- On the Customer Summary page, in the left column, click Billable Overrides
- On the Billable Override Summary page, in the upper right corner, click Add Billable Override
- On the Billable Override page, fill in the fields. See Modify Billable Override, step 3, below
- On the Billable Override Summary page, find the billable override. Click column headings to sort in ascending or descending order
- In the Name column, click the billable override
On the Billable Override page, fill in the fields:
Customer Information
Field Description Billable Default For the tickets that match the response/registration codes and ticket types you choose, set the billable default:
Yes: The ticket is set to default to billable
No: The ticket is set to default to not billable
Description The description of the billable override Name The name of the billable override Response Code The registration code from the ticket Ticket Type The standard ticket types:
- Aerial
- Damaged Utility
- Design
- Emergency
- Late
- Meet
- Recall
- Regular
- Revision
- Short
- Click Save
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