Bills

A bill is a request for payment for delivered work.

Billing will depend on billing type defined for the project.

Billing types

Each bill is linked to project, a project has a project type, and a project type is linked to a billing type.

So the billing type is automatically defined for the selected project.

Billing type will influence bill line format.

At terms

  • A term must be defined to generate the bill, generally following a billing calendar.
  • Used for instance for: Fixed price projects.

On produced work

  • No term is needed.
  • The billing will be calculated based on produced work for resources on selected activities, on a selected period.
  • Used, for instance for: Time & Materials projects.

On capped produced work

  • No term is needed.
  • The billing will be calculated based on produced work for resources on selected activities, on a selected period.
  • Used, for instance for: Capped Time & Materials projects.

Note

  • Taking into account that total billing cannot be more than project validated work.

Manual

  • Billing is defined manually, with no link to the project activity.
  • Used, for instance for: Any kind of project where no link to activity is needed.

Not billed

  • No billing is possible for these kinds of projects.
  • Used, for instance for: Internal projects & Administrative projects.

Note

Billing report

  • Only bill with at least status “done” will be available for reporting.
  • Before this status, they are considered as a draft.

Other sections

Section: Description

Field Description
Id Unique Id for the bill.
Name Short description of the bill.
Bill type Type of bill.
Project The project concerned by the bill.
Date Date of the bill.
Payment deadline Payment deadline.
Payment due date Due date for payment (read only).
Customer Customer who will pay for the bill.
Bill contact Contact who will receive the bill.
Recipient Recipient who will receive the payment for the bill.
Origin Element which is the origin of the bill.
Billing type Project billing type.

* Required field

Field: Payment due date

  • The value is calculated with date of bill + payment deadline.

Fields: Customer & Bill contact

  • Automatically updated from project fields.

Section: Treatment

Field Description
Status Actual status of the bill.
Responsible Resource who is responsible for the bill.
Sent date Date when bill is sent to customer contact.
Send mode Delivery mode.
Done Flag to indicate that the bill has been treated.
Closed Flag to indicate that the bill is archived.
Cancelled Flag to indicate that the bill is cancelled.
Amount Total amount of the bill.
% of order Percentage of the bill balance over order amount.
Payment Payment of bill.
Comments Comments for the bill.

* Required field

Fields: Amount

Columns:

  • Ex VAT: Amount without taxes.
    • The value is automatically updated with the sum of bill line amounts.
  • Tax: Applicable tax.
    • Automatically updated from customer field.
  • Full: Amount with taxes.

Fields: Payment

Columns:

  • Date: Date of payment.
  • Amount: Payment amount.
  • Complete: Flag to indicate that complete payment.

Section: Bill lines

Input for each bill line depends on billing type.

Field Description
Id Unique Id for the bill line.
N° Number of the line for the bill.
Description Description of the line.
Detail Detail of the line.
Unit price Unitary price of billed element.
Quantity Quantity of billed element.
Sum Total price for the line (Price x Quantity).

Bill lines management

  • Click on Button add to add a bill line. A different “Bill line” dialog box will be displayed depends on billing type.
  • Click on Button edit to modify an existing bill line.
  • Click on Button icon delete to delete the bill line.

Bill line: At terms

Dialog box - Bill line - At terms

Bill line - At terms

Fields - Bill line - At terms
Field Description
N° Number of the line for the bill.
Term Project terms to be selected.
Description Description of line.
Detail Detail of the line.
Price Real amount of term.

* Required field

Field: Description

  • Automatically set with the term name.
  • Can be modified on update.

Field: Detail

  • Can be set on update.

Bill line: On produced work & On capped produced work

Dialog box - Bill line - On produced work & On capped produced work

Bill line - On produced work & On capped produced work

Fields - Bill line - On produced work & On capped produced work
Field Description
N° Number of the line for the bill.
Resource Project resources to be selected.
Activity price Project activities price to be selected.
Start date Start date of the period to take into account.
End date End date of the period to take into account.
Description Description of line.
Detail Detail of the line.
Price Price of the activity.
Quantity Quantity of element.
Amount Amount for the line (Price x Quantity).

* Required field

Field: Description

  • Automatically set with selected resource, activity price name and dates.
  • Can be modified on update.

Field: Detail

  • Can be set on update.

Bill line: Manual billing

Dialog box - Bill line - Manual billing

Bill line - Manual billing

Fields - Bill line - Manual billing
Field Description
N° Number of the line.
Amendment Flag to indicate this is an amendment line.
Description Description of the line.
Detail Detail of the line.
Price Unitary price of element / measure unit.
Quantity Quantity of element.
Amount Amount for the line (Price x Quantity).

Field: Amendment

  • This field is used for amendment values in order detail.

Terms

A term is a planned trigger for billing.

You can define as many terms as you wish, to define the billing calendar.

Note

  • Terms are mandatory to bill “Fixed price” project.
  • A term can be used just one time. The bill name will be displayed.

A term has triggers

  • You can link the activities that should be billed at this term.
  • A summary of activities is displayed for validated and planned amount and end date.
  • Validated and planned values play the role of reminder.
  • You can use these values to set real amount and date.

Other sections

Section: Description

Field Description
Id Unique Id for the term.
Name Short description of the term.
Project The project concerned with the term.
Bill Bill name that uses this term.
Closed Flag to indicate that term is archived

* Required field

Section: Fixed price for term

Field Description
Real amount Defined amount for the term.
Real date Defined date for the term.
Validated amount Sum of validated amounts of activities defined as triggers (Read only).
Validated date Max of validated end dates of activities defined as triggers (Read only).
Planned amount Sum of planned amounts of activities defined as triggers (Read only).
Planned date Max of validated end dates of activities defined as triggers (Read only).

Fields: Amount and Date (Planned & Validated)

  • When a trigger is entered, the values of planned and validated are automatically updated with the sum and the max of triggered amounts.

Section: Trigger elements for the term

This section allows to manage element trigger.

Trigger element management

  • Click on Button add to add an element trigger.
  • Click on Button icon delete to delete an element trigger.
Dialog box - Add a trigger element to term
Fields - Add a trigger element to term dialog box
Field Description
Linked element type Type of element to be selected (Activity, Meeting, Milestone, Project, Test session).
Linked element Item to be selected.

Activities prices

Activity price defines daily price for activities of a given activity type and a given project.

This is used to calculate a billing amount for billing type On produced work and On capped produced work.

Section: Description

Field Description
Id Unique Id for the activity price.
Name Short description of the activity price.
Project The project concerned with the activity price.
Activity type Type of activities concerned with the activity price.
Price of the activity Daily price of the activities of the given activity type and the given project.
Sort order Number to define order of display in lists.
Closed Flag to indicate that activity price is archived.

* Required field

Payments

Allow to define payment of bills.

The bill keeps track of payment.

Section: Description

Field Description
Id Unique Id for the payment.
Name Short description of the payment.
Payment type Type of payment.
Description Description of the payment.

* Required field

Section: Treatment

Field Description
Payment mode The mode of payment.
Payment date Date of payment.
Payment amount Amount of the payment.
Payment fee Payment of the fee.
Payment credit Balance of payment amount less payment fee.
Bill Bill concerned with the payment.
Bill reference Reference of bill.
Customer Customer of bill.
Recipient Recipient of bill.
Bill amount Amount of bill.
Closed Flag to indicate that payment is archived.

* Required field

Catalog

Catalog defines items (products or services) that can be obects of a quotation, an order or a bill.

This is used on the quotation lines, order lines and invoice lines. See: Bill lines.

Section: Description

Field Description
Id Unique Id for the payment.
Name Name of the catalog.
Catalog type Type of catalog.
Description Description of the catalog.
Detail Detail of the catalog.
Nomenclature Nomenclature of the catalog.
Specification Specification of the catalog.

* Required field

Section: Treatment

Field Treatment
Unit price Type of unit.
Quantity Quantity of catalog.
Product Type of product.
Product version Version of the product.