Jim2® Business Engine Help File

Stock must be set up prior to adding meters, including macro descriptions on the Machines 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" "}}

 

This machine has a single black meter and is billed in blocks of 1,000 pages.

 

 

This machine has been set up with an opening read of 35,000 and 650 prepaid pages available. Note that the Prepaid meter must link to the Black meter. Looking at the Open Balance tab, the price and optional expiry date for the prepaid stock's opening balance should be specified in the Read/Purchase Date column.

 

 

If we then enter a read of 37,400, the following job is created:

 

 

Macros need to be set up on the stock to show the prepaid next purchase, etc.

 

The use of prepaid pages offsets the actual page count for the period. The effective billable amount for the job is the three purchased prepaid page blocks.

 

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