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 bills the client a service component, and a 2nd party the remaining component. This assumes you have Kitting enabled (Tools > Options > Project > Machines > Linked Meter Kit Stockcode).

 

 

Both meters have the same opening balances. Jim2 will give you a chance to enter in the primary black meter, then automatically populate the value of the second meter to be the same as the current meter count of the black meter.

 

 

If we receive a meter read of 53,000 for black, the following jobs are produced:

 

Client

 

2nd Party

 

Here, the client sees that it has been billed 3,000 pages at $0.04 per page, and the 2nd party has been billed 3,000 pages at $0.06 per page.

 

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