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Auto-Bill: Defining Recurring Revenue Billing

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Auto-Bill: Defining Recurring Revenue Billing

This Help File Page was last Modified on 04/20/2013

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Auto-Bill: Defining Recurring Revenue Billing

This Help File Page was last Modified on 04/20/2013

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Recurring Revenue is the lifeblood of any Burglary Alarm Business.
The ability to accurately and easily bill Recurring Revenue is critical to the overall successful implementation of the Accounts Receivable module.
The flexibility of this Automatic Billing system will allow the automation of virtually any recurring billing requirement your Company may have.
This Recurring Revenue Form is where these recurring billing requirements are defined for each Subscriber.

 

Recurring Revenue rules may be added, updated or deleted at any time.  To do so:
1.Open the Subscribers Form
2.Using Search (F-2), locate the appropriate Subscriber record.
3.Click the Auto Bill Icon on the Subscribers Form's Receivable Shortcut Menu to open the Recurring Revenue Form shown below.

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Recurring Revenue Form - Open Item Recurring Revenue entry

 

This Recurring Revenue Form may be Re-sized by Dragging the Top and/or Bottom up or down, and/or the Right side in or out.
Navigation Menu - The Navigation Menu is located at the top of the Recurring Revenue Form.

 

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This Navigation Menu provides the normal Record Movement, New, Edit, Delete, Cancel, Save, and Refresh options; as well as a Print and Search function, and buttons to specify whether the entry is for an Open Term or a Fixed Term recurring revenue billing requirement.
Table View tab - Click the Table View tab at the bottom of the Recurring Revenue Form to display a tabular (spreadsheet style) Record Listing of the currently defined Recurring Revenues.

 

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This Table View information may be Pinned in Place by Clicking the Pin Icon on the right.
To display a specific Recurring Revenue record in the Record Editing section, Click on that record within the Table View section, or use the Search Icon.

 

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Recurring Revenue (Auto Bill) Form - with Table View tab Pinned Open

 

You may Un-Pin this Table View by Clicking the Pin Icon again.
Click on any listed record to display that information in the center (Main Body) of the Form.
There are many columns of data in this Recurring Revenue Record Listing:
Each column's Header Name describes the data contained in that column.
Clicking on a Header Name will set the order in which the Recurring Revenue(s) will be listed.
Clicking on the same Header Name will set the order in the opposite direction (ascending vs. descending).

 

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The Header Name that is determining the Order of the list will have an Icon indicating the Order displayed next to that Header Name.

 

Setting Up a new Recurring Revenue rule:
Click the HelpFilesNavigationMenuNewIcon to start a Recurring Revenue entry in the Record Editing section.
The first step is to indicate whether this is:
a)an Open Term billing entry for ongoing services like a charge for Monitoring or Opening & Closing Services, or
b)an internally financed Fixed Term equipment sale, installation sale, or lease-purchase which, once it is paid off, will automatically cease to be billed.
Click the appropriate button to indicate which type of Recurring Revenue entry this will be.
See Defining Open Term Recurring Billing chapter for complete information on Open Term billing.
See the Defining Fixed Term Billing chapter for complete information on Fixed Term billing.