A master has one black and one colour contract. Both contracts 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 contracts:
The master also has the additional Child Hide on Invoice, Child Hide Inv Und and Child Hide Inv Over values. This allows specifying different visibility settings between master and child contracts. In order for the kits on the master and child jobs to appear with rates that the customer might expect, ensure that this visibility matches whether or not they are actually billed. In other words, hide the pages counts on the master that are used to track total pages on child contracts. That is, Standard and Overs are to be hidden on only the master.
In this case, the following settings on the master are suggested:
Hide On Invoice |
Ticked. Masters do not charge standard pages, but only track them. |
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Child Hide On Invoice |
Unticked. Child contracts do charge standard pages. |
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Hide Inv Und |
Unticked. Masters do charge under pages. |
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Child Hide Inv Und |
Unticked. Child contracts use unders to charge estimates. |
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Hide Inv Over |
Ticked. Masters do not charge over pages, but only track them. |
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Child Hide Inv Over |
Unticked. Child contracts 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 contracts at the expense of changing the Price Ex to a meaningless value.
Entering a read of 40,000 for the black contract, and for the colour contract 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 contracts' jobs are amended to the following. No need to change the black only contract as there were no black overs.
For the colour contract, 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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