Modified: 2018/03/21 10:56 by EricCrocker - Uncategorized

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Billing

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The Billing window contains all the information and tools necessary to process the billing portion of "Traffic and Billing". It can be launched directly from the Dashboard.



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Billing Phases (Tabs)

The billing process is separated out into several phases. These phases are represented by the tabs displayed on this window. In addition to the names of the tabs, there is also a number contained within a set of parenthesis that represents the number of Invoice items contained on each tab.

Most of the tabs (phases) provide the ability to select (available through a Select column on the list) which items you want to have processed. This selection (or not) is controlled by placing a check mark (or not) next to each item that you want to be included. This can be done by using the mouse to click on the checkbox of the highlighted item or using the spacebar key on the highlighted item; these actions will toggle the check in the checkbox. By default, all items are selected. (The Gathering and Open tabs have nothing to process, so they do not include the ability to select.)

All tabs also have a Process button located just to the bottom left of the body of the tab that serves to execute the processing of the items checked (to be included). See below for details of what the Process button actually does depending on the tab (phase) being processed.

The details of each phase (tab) are: Gathering, Pending, Pay, Print, and Open.



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Main Menu

• File
  • Print - Prints the currently selected tab (see below) list.
  • Print Preview - Print previews the currently selected tab (see below) list.
  • Close - Closes the window.
• View
  • Reset ★ This serves as a means to reset the layout to "factory original".
  • Refresh - Refreshes all of the items from the database.
• Tools
  • Make Goods ★ - Opens the MakeGood window. See MakeGood.
  • Print Statements - Opens the PrintStatements window. See PrintStatements.
• Reports
  • Invalid CoOp Scripts ★Opens the Invalid CoOp Scripts report.

★ Feature not available in Essentials.

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Gathering

The gathering phase contains all Invoice item(s) that are still in the process of collecting information preparing for billing. Many of these invoices include spots that are running for the month. You can see their progress indicated by the number of spots run out of the number ordered. For example, under the Progress column, you’ll see “Gathering (24 of 44).” This is a "read-only" phase.

Columns

Standard

• Customer: Name of the Customer.
• Progress: The amount of completeness this invoice is to being finished.
• Invoice#: The invoice number.
• End Date: The end date of this particular run.
• Gross: The gross of the selected invoice.

Additional

• Agency: The name of the agency if this customer has one.
• Agency Comm$: The amount of agency commission.
• Agency Comm%: The percentage of the agency commission.
• Balance: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Billing Cycle: The Type of billing this customer is using.
• Commission$: The Sales Commission amount.
• Commission%: The Sales Commission percentage.
• Contract: Contract number.
• Discount: The discount if this customer or contract has one.
• Invoice Items: The amount of spots that have been played.
• Invoice Type: The Type of invoice printed.
• NE$: Net Effective Amount of monies before deductions.
• Net: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Owner: The Owner of the Customer.
• Product: The product if you have one.
• Revenue Source: The RevenueSource entered on the Contract.
• Revenue Type: The RevenueType entered on the Contract.
• Sales Person: The Sales Person of the Customer.
• Start Date: The start date of this particular contract.
• Station: The Station or Stations that the Contract targets.
• Total: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Trade: Checkbox acknowledging yes or no that this invoice is for trade.

Context Menu

• Fix: ...

Hot Keys

• F1: Launches the help system (requires correctly configured web browser).
• Enter: Open the highlighted invoice.
• Up Arrow: Moves navigation up.
• Down Arrow: Moves the navigation down.
• Home: Moves the highlight to the top of the current pane.
• End: Move the highlight to the bottom of the current pane.
• Esc: Closes the window.
• F5: Refreshes the data.

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Ready

The pending phase contains all Invoice item(s); these invoices are ready to be reviewed and approved. The invoice end date will be the last date the last spot was reconciled.

If you have customers, agencies, for example, that prefer to receive invoices only at the end of the broadcast month or calendar month, you have the option to do what we call “Enable Force-Billing Cycle Boundary.” From the RT dashboard, navigate to Settings > Group > Options and click "Enable Billing Cycle Boundary." This option keeps invoices under the Gathering tab until the end of the broadcast month for broadcast invoices, and until the end of the calendar month for calendar invoices. At the end of the billing month, those invoices will then move to the Pending tab and will be ready to bill.

Columns

Standard

• Select: Checkbox that can be checked or unchecked.
• Customer: Name of the Customer.
• Invoice#: The invoice number.
• End Date: The end date of this particular run.
• Gross: The gross of the selected invoice.

Additional

• Agency: The name of the agency if this customer has one.
• Agency Comm$: The amount of agency commission.
• Agency Comm%: The percentage of the agency commission.
• Balance: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Billing Cycle: The Type of billing this customer is using.
• Commission$: The Sales Commission amount.
• Commission%: The Sales Commission percentage.
• Contract: Contract number.
• Discount: The discount if this customer or contract has one.
• Invoice Items: The amount of spots that have been played.
• Invoice Type: The Type of invoice printed.
• NE$: Net Effective Amount of monies before deductions.
• Net: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Owner: The Owner of the Customer.
• Product: The product if you have one.
• Revenue Source: The RevenueSource entered on the Contract.
• Revenue Type: The RevenueType entered on the Contract.
• Sales Person: The Sales Person of the Customer.
• Start Date: The start date of this particular contract.
• Station: The Station or Stations that the Contract targets.
• Total: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Trade: Checkbox acknowledging yes or no that this invoice is for trade.

Context Menu

• Check All: Checkmarks all lines.
• Uncheck All: Uncheck marks all lines.

Usage

The Process button only shows if you have something in this pane AND you have it checked. This button will process all the lines you have checked.

Hot Keys

• F1: Launches the help system (requires correctly configured web browser).
• Enter: Open the highlighted invoice.
• Up Arrow: Moves navigation up.
• Down Arrow: Moves the navigation down.
• Home: Moves the highlight to the top of the current pane.
• End: Move the highlight to the bottom of the current pane.
• Esc: Closes the window.
• F5: Refreshes the data.

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Pay

The pay phase provides an easy way to automatically apply any outstanding existing payments (pre-payments) to one or more Invoice items. Each Invoice on this list represents an Invoice that "could potentially have money applied to". This does not mean that there is enough to zero out all Invoice items; just that there is at least one penny that can be applied.

Money is applied using a two-pass process that first evaluates all of the existing payments for the whole matching amount to the oldest Invoice and the second takes what is left and starts applying money to the oldest Invoice until all money is applied that can be applied.

Columns

Standard

• Select: Checkbox that can be checked or unchecked.
• Customer: Name of the Customer.
• Invoice#: The invoice number.
• End Date: The end date of this particular run.
• Balance: The total amount of money after all deductions.

Additional

• Agency: The name of the agency if this customer has one.
• Agency Comm$: The amount of agency commission.
• Agency Comm%: The percentage of the agency commission.
• Billing Cycle: The Type of billing this customer is using.
• Commission$: The Sales Commission amount.
• Commission%: The Sales Commission percentage.
• Contract: Contract number.
• Discount: The discount if this customer or contract has one.
• Gross: The gross of the selected invoice.
• Invoice Items: The amount of spots that have been played.
• Invoice Type: The Type of invoice printed.
• NE$: Net Effective Amount of monies before deductions.
• Net: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Owner: The Owner of the Customer.
• Product: The product if you have one.
• Revenue Source: The RevenueSource entered on the Contract.
• Revenue Type: The RevenueType entered on the Contract.
• Sales Person: The Sales Person of the Customer.
• Start Date: The start date of this particular contract.
• Station: The Station or Stations that the Contract targets.
• Total: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Trade: Checkbox acknowledging yes or no that this invoice is for trade.

Context Menu

• Check All: Checkmarks all lines.
• Uncheck All: Uncheck marks all lines.

Usage

The Process button only shows if you have something in this pane AND you have it checked. This button will process all the lines you have checked.

Hot Keys

• F1: Launches the help system (requires correctly configured web browser).
• Enter: Open the highlighted invoice.
• Up Arrow: Moves navigation up.
• Down Arrow: Moves the navigation down.
• Home: Moves the highlight to the top of the current pane.
• End: Move the highlight to the bottom of the current pane.
• Esc: Closes the window.
• F5: Refreshes the data.

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Print

The print phase contains all Invoice items that are pending to be printed based on Customer and/or Contract configurations.

Automatically Collate Statements and Invoices ★

To automatically collate printed statements and invoices, use main menu Tools->PrintStatements prior to using the Process button for the print phase.

★ Feature not available in Essentials.

Columns

Standard

• Select: Checkbox that can be checked or unchecked.
• Customer: Name of the Customer.
• Invoice#: The invoice number.
• End Date: The end date of this particular run.
• Balance: The total amount of money after all deductions.

Additional

• Agency: The name of the agency if this customer has one.
• Agency Comm$: The amount of agency commission.
• Agency Comm%: The percentage of the agency commission.
• Billing Cycle: The Type of billing this customer is using.
• Commission$: The Sales Commission amount.
• Commission%: The Sales Commission percentage.
• Contract: Contract number.
• Discount: The discount if this customer or contract has one.
• Gross: The gross of the selected invoice.
• Invoice Items: The amount of spots that have been played.
• Invoice Type: The Type of invoice printed.
• NE$: Net Effective Amount of monies before deductions.
• Net: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Owner: The Owner of the Customer.
• Product: The product if you have one.
• Revenue Source: The RevenueSource entered on the Contract.
• Revenue Type: The RevenueType entered on the Contract.
• Sales Person: The Sales Person of the Customer.
• Start Date: The start date of this particular contract.
• Station: The Station or Stations that the Contract targets.
• Total: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Trade: Checkbox acknowledging yes or no that this invoice is for trade.

Context Menu

• Check All: Checkmarks all lines.
• Uncheck All: Uncheck marks all lines.

Usage

The Process button only shows if you have something in this pane AND you have it checked. This button will process all the lines you have checked.

Hot Keys

• F1: Launches the help system (requires correctly configured web browser).
• Enter: Open the highlighted invoice.
• Up Arrow: Moves navigation up.
• Down Arrow: Moves the navigation down.
• Home: Moves the highlight to the top of the current pane.
• End: Move the highlight to the bottom of the current pane.
• Esc: Closes the window.
• F5: Refreshes the data.

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Open

The open phase contains all Invoice items that are currently outstanding (unpaid). This exists just to provide a quick overview of the Invoice items that are outstanding. This is a "read-only" phase.

It is important to understand that, at any point, you can close out of the billing process, affect change(s) elsewhere and return where you left off. With this process, we are striving to provide the necessary tools to easily streamline the process of getting billing out in the most efficient and effective manner as possible; all the while, providing full control for the rare times that it may be needed.

Columns

Standard

• Select: Checkbox that can be checked or unchecked.
• Customer: Name of the Customer.
• Invoice#: The invoice number.
• End Date: The end date of this particular run.
• Balance: The total amount of money after all deductions.

Additional

• Agency: The name of the agency if this customer has one.
• Agency Comm$: The amount of agency commission.
• Agency Comm%: The percentage of the agency commission.
• Billing Cycle: The Type of billing this customer is using.
• Commission$: The Sales Commission amount.
• Commission%: The Sales Commission percentage.
• Contract: Contract number.
• Discount: The discount if this customer or contract has one.
• Gross: The gross of the selected invoice.
• Invoice Items: The amount of spots that have been played.
• Invoice Type: The Type of invoice printed.
• NE$: Net Effective Amount of monies before deductions.
• Net: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Owner: The Owner of the Customer.
• Product: The product if you have one.
• Revenue Source: The RevenueSource entered on the Contract.
• Revenue Type: The RevenueType entered on the Contract.
• Sales Person: The Sales Person of the Customer.
• Start Date: The start date of this particular contract.
• Station: The Station or Stations that the Contract targets.
• Total: The total amount of money after all deductions.
• Trade: Checkbox acknowledging yes or no that this invoice is for trade.

Hot Keys

• F1: Launches the help system (requires correctly configured web browser).
• Enter: Open the highlighted invoice.
• Up Arrow: Moves navigation up.
• Down Arrow: Moves the navigation down.
• Home: Moves the highlight to the top of the current pane.
• End: Move the highlight to the bottom of the current pane.
• Esc: Closes the window.
• F5: Refreshes the data.

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Print Statements

This window allows you to print the Invoices you want on a per Customer basis:



You can Check/Uncheck the customers you want/don't want to print.

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Main Menu

• File
  • Close: This closes the window.
• View
  • Reset: resets the pane to the base settings
  • Refresh: refreshes the page.

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Columns

Standard

• Select: Check box to check and uncheck.
• Name: Name of Customer.
• Billing Cycle: The billing cycle of the Contract.
• Aging: The aging of the oldest statements.
• Balance: The entire amount of balance.

Additional

• Contract: Contract number.
• Credit Policy: The credit policy for that particular Customer.
• Fax: the Customer Fax number.
• Finance Charge: The finance charge.
• Invoices: The number of Total invoices you have.
• Owner: the Owner of the Customer.
• Phone: The Customer phone number.
• Print?: Checkbox to check or uncheck.
• Revenue Source: The RevenueSource entered on the Contract.
• Revenue Type: The RevenueType entered on the Contract.
• Station: The Station or Stations that the Contract targets.
• Stmt Type: Tyoe of statement.
• Unpaid Invoices: the amount of unpaid invoices that Customer has.

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Hot Keys

• F1: Launches the help system (requires correctly configured web browser).
• Up Arrow: Moves navigation up.
• Down Arrow: Moves the navigation down.
• Home: Moves the highlight to the top of the current pane.
• End: Move the highlight to the bottom of the current pane.
• Esc: Closes the window.
• F5: Refreshes the data.

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FAQ

The Actions you see happening at the bottom of the window is the status bar. This is an area located at the bottom of the window that displays the currently executing activity.

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Additional Information

See AR.
See Invoice.
See Common UI Behaviors.