Jim2® Business Engine Help File

Meter Types

Explanation

Black

Tracks black pages. Supports standard, unders and overs billing.

Colour

Tracks colour pages. Supports standard, unders and overs billing.

Total (Linked)

Tracks colour pages by calculating the total number of pages, and subtracting the number of black pages. Supports standard, unders and overs billing.

Scan

Tracks scans. Supports standard, unders and overs billing.

Prepaid Pages

Allows pages or scans that are used to be paid for by prepaid pages. Also allows for prepaid pages to be bought in fixed bundles. Prepaid meters are different to other meters in that other meters try to catch up to the unlinked meter.

Base Charge

Applies a fixed dollar amount charge.

Min Charge

Ensures the specified client is charged a minimum amount. This minimum amount excludes any base charges. Amounts billed to other card files are ignored when calculating if the minimum charge applies.

Total Black (Calculated)

Virtual meter that is calculated using the total of all black meters. Supports standard, unders and overs billing. Uses A4 ratio to give a weighting to each meter that makes up the total.

Total Colour (Calculated)

Virtual meter that is calculated using the total of all colour meters. Supports standard, unders and overs billing. Uses A4 ratio to give a weighting to each meter that makes up the total.

Total (Calculated)

Virtual meter that is calculated using the totals of all meters. Supports standard, unders and overs billing. Uses A4 ratio to give a weighting to each meter that makes up the total.

Third Party PO

Used to raise purchase order for costs associated with the machine. Supports standard, unders and overs billing.

Third Party PO Base

Used to raise purchase order for base charges associated with the machine.

Third Party PO Min

Used to raise purchase order for minimum charges associated with the machine. This minimum amount excludes any PO base charges. PO lines created for other vendors are ignored when calculating if the minimum PO charge applies.

Balancing

This meter is used to balance to a specified fixed dollar amount. Balancing stock removes any differences between a calculated amount and a specified dollar amount.

Daily rate-based

Allows billing a daily rate. Ideally suited for short term rentals, etc. The billing of the Daily rate-based meter takes into account the contract start/end date, if set, and can be used alone or with any other meter combination.

For example:

To use a Daily rate-based meter, a Non Depleting or Journal stock must be set up. Under the Machines tab, the Meter Type needs to be set to Daily.

Base Rate meter

Base Rate meter allows a fixed quantity of charges per billing run. This is effectively the same as the Daily rate-based meter, but allows a quantity to be billed per billing run. The quantity billed can be also be entered if billed manually.