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Black A3 and Black A4 Meter with Minimum Volume Over the Two Meters

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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 minimum volume of 10,000 pages per month. Each A3 page counts for 1.5 A4 pages.

 

a3 and a4

Standard Billing

 

a3 and a4 unders overs

Unders/Overs Billing

 

a3 and a4 service reads

Service Setup

 

Notice that the Total Black (Calculated) meter had its standard meter set as Non Billable. Normally, this means the meter would be discounted at 100%. For a calculated meter however, it means that it is charged at $0.00. We do not want to bill the standard billing because this will be billed on the black A4 and black A3 meters themselves. The unders information is only required because we are going to bill a minimum of 10,000 black pages, and this will make up the shortfall. We put in an over rate of $0.00 because the actual page counts will be billed on the black A4 and black A3 meters themselves. The last thing to note is that the A4 Ratio of the black A3 meter is 1.5, meaning that each A3 page counts as 1.5 pages. This means that all of the Total Black (Calculated) stock needs to have a quantity that can go to 1 decimal place.

 

When entering the read, you are only required to enter in the black A4 and black A3 values:

 

a3 and a4 billing meter

 

The job that is created is as follows:

 

a3 and a4 job

 

We can see that the MC.BLACK.TOTAL stock has a quantity of 8,000. This is 5,000 A4 plus 1.5 x 2000 A3. This is charged at $0.00. There is then an under charge of 2,000 to bring the total black meter up to the minimum volume of 10,000 pages.

 

If, the following month, we go over the minimum volume by having a black read of 63,000 and a black A3 read of 23,500,

 

a3 and a4 job1

 

we can see the A4 and A3 are billed as normal. By themselves, they haven't gone over 10,000 pages until you consider the 1.5 page weighting that A3 pages have. Once this is taken into consideration, the total meter isn't required to bill anything, because the 10,000 standard pages are billed at $0.00, as are the 250 overs pages.

 

Further information:

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