A master has one black and one colour machine. Both machines have the same rate for black. There is a minimum volume of 10,000 pagers per month for black, and 2,000 pages for colour on the contract.
The master setups is as follows:
Every setting except the Minimum Volume and Meter Counts is copied to the child machines:
The master also has the additional Child Hide on Invoice, Child Hide Inv Und and Child Hide Inv Over values. This allows you to specify different visibility settings between master and child machines. In order for the kits on the master and child jobs to appear with rates that your client might expect, you need to ensure that this visibility matches whether or not they are actually billed. In other words, you need to hide the pages counts on the master that are used to track total pages on child machines. That is, we need to hide Standard and Overs on only the master.
In this case, we suggest the following settings on the master:
Hide On Invoice |
Ticked. Masters do not charge standard pages, but only track them. |
Child Hide On Invoice |
Unticked. Child machines do charge standard pages. |
Hide Inv Und |
Unticked. Masters do charge under pages. |
Child Hide Inv Und |
Unticked. Child machines use unders to charge estimates. |
Hide Inv Over |
Ticked. Masters do not charge over pages, but only track them. |
Child Hide Inv Over |
Unticked. Child machines do charge over pages. |
In this example nothing is hidden. This means that the total on the master will reflect all that has been billed on child machines at the expense of changing the Price Ex to a meaningless value.
Entering a read of 40,000 for the black machine, and for the colour machine 63,000 for black and 18,000 for colour produces the following jobs. This is before the master job is created, so no minimum calculations have been performed.
Creating the master job creates the following:
The black count is only 7,000, so there are 3,000 charged as unders. Unders charges are the only amounts that are billed on the master (standard and overs charges are billed at $0.00).
The colour count was over the 2,000 minimum, so the master just tracks the split between standard and overs pages. The child machines' jobs are amended to the following. No need to change the black only machine as there were no black overs.
For the colour machine, the black meter remains unchanged for the same reason, but the colour meter now shows a split between standard and overs billing.
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