Estimate Meter Reads

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Stock must be set up prior to adding meters with None as selected for meter type, including macro descriptions on the Contracts tab.

 

Example Macros

{{Project.Meter.Counter Name" "}}{{"Last Read – "Project.Meter.Job.Previous Job.Meter Read" "}}{{"Last Estimated Read – "Project.Meter.Job.Previous Job.Estimated Meter Read" "}}{{Project.Meter.Job.Previous Job.Date Due" "}}{{"Current Read – "Project.Meter.Job.Meter Read" "}}{{"Estimated Read – "Project.Meter.Job.Estimated Meter Read" "}}{{"Prints – "Project.Meter.Job.Qty" "}}{{"Estimated Prints – "Project.Meter.Job.Estimated Qty" "}}

 

Basic Cost per Copy with Estimates

This contract has a black meter and a colour meter. No minimum volume. The contract allows estimates to be calculated against this contract. Unders stock is used to track any estimated billing. The contract had a previous actual black and colour read of 45,000 and 16,000 respectively.

 

estimates meters

Meter Setup

 

estimates ob

Opening Balance

 

If there is a second estimated read of 5,000 black pages and 900 colour pages, that is entered in the Billing Meter Read screen as follows:

 

add estimated pages

 

This will produce a job similar to the following:

 

estimate added

 

The current meter counts on the contract setup would look similar to:400

 

current meter counts

 

If the following month actual reads of 57,000 black and 17,400 colour are received, so enter it via the Billing Meter Read screen:

 

actual read

 

Jim2 will produce a job similar to the following:

 

actual read job

 

Whereby the actual black count is only 3,000 higher than previously estimated, so that is the net number charged to the customer. The unders are clawed back, and the actual standard page count is increased. The actual colour read still has not reached the amount previously estimated, so the entire amount for colour has been clawed back.

 

current meter counts1\

 

Looking at the black meter, it no longer has any unders to clawback, and its entire meter is a standard meter count. The colour meter still has 300 unders pages that will be clawed back the next time it is billed.

 

This allows Jim2 to keep track of actual page counts, even if previous estimated billing reads turned out to be too high.

 

Further information

Further information

3 Tier Colour Coverage

Advaced Meter Setup

Base Charge

Black A3 and Black A4 Meter with Min Vol over the 2 Meters

Black A3 and Separate A4 Meter

Clawback Meters

Contract with Total Meter

Estimate Meter Reads

Free, Prepaid Block and Page Billing

Minimums Examples

PMP Plan Meter Setup

Simple Meter Examples

Split Meter Setups

Unders and Overs Meter Setup