The Billing Rates card allows you to attach a rate table to an item price and/or time price. On the Billing Charges card, you use these rate tables to calculate rates based on certain requirements. For instance, if a service exists for monitoring basic alarms, the Monitoring Company might create a rate table based on the number of alarms.
Fields
- Rate Code – The Manitou billing identifier for the rate.
- Description – An explanation of the Rate Code.
- Calculation Type – Dealer and Customer Calculation types will change which rate table you use to calculate charges. For example, if Dealer Addison has two Customers, A and B, Customer A receives 5 signals over the limit in the last month, and Customer B receives 6 signals over the limit. If the rate table associated with the billing charge for those signal overages is using the Dealer Calculation, then all 11 signals would be charged to Dealer Addison at the rate for 11 signals specified in the table. However, if the rate table associated with the billing charge is the Customer Calculation type, then Dealer Addison would be charged for 5 signals at the rate for 5 signals and charged for 6 signals at the rate of six signals.
- Min Quantity – This number indicates the threshold for additional charges, for example, the number of False Alarms.
- Base Price – Initial fee for a particular service.
- Additional Price – Extra fees for a service, for example, a Customer exceeds a certain number of False Alarms.