This master contract contains two child machines – one black and one colour. Both machines have the same rate for black.
We can use Master Meters to manage rates on child machines. There is no minimum volume for this contract.
One child is linked to an Item which has its photocopier type set to colour.
Both master meters are copied down to the child.
Whilst the second machine is set to black.
For this second machine, only the black meters are copied down from the master.
To enter reads for all machines under a master, you can use the Master # field in the machine list screen.
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A master and all its children should always have the same Next Bill date. |
If, for the black only machine, we receive a read of 33,000, and for the colour machine we receive a read of 54,000 for black and 13,000 for colour, the following two separate jobs are created:
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If you have used billing macros, the description will appear as for the black billing job above. If not, the description will appear as for the black and colour billing job above. |
When creating the master job, Jim2 displays the minimum number of pages (in this case 0 for both).
This creates a master job that tracks all of the pages that have been billed on child machines. The resultant master job has no charges, just page counts.
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Once there is billing against the child machines, you are not able to unlink them from the master machine. You need to Finish the child machines and Create Similar if you wish to have them as stand alone machines.
The child machine history will be against the finished machine, however the Service History Report looks at the Item and Serial#, so all instances relating to Serial# should be included in the report. |
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