Dealer Billing

Manitou Dealer Billing for monitoring operations helps automate and streamline the often complex process of managing billing between monitoring companies, dealers, and their customers. It centralizes the invoicing process by automatically genera...

To properly enable Dealer Billing the process begins within the Supervisor Workstation Options form.   Load the Supervisor Workstation . Navigate to the Manitou Options form.  Tools menu then options, or the checklist icon .  ...

Prior to configuring Billing Charges, it is important to verify the Dealer Billing Accounting Company exists and is configured.  This is completed within the Supervisor Workstation. Verifying or Adding an Accounting Company Open the...

When billing using Monitoring Services, the Manitou Monitoring Types require Billing Codes .   Adding a Billing Code to a Monitoring Type Open the Supervisor Workstation . Navigate to the Monitoring Types .  Maintenance Menu...

In order to process Dealer Billing, the Dealer record requires linking to the accounting system.   Adding Accounting to Dealer Load the Dealer.  Dealer records may be found by Pressing F10 on the keyboard, shortcut, or hamburger icon ...

Billing Charges  can be set up on a  Recurring ,  Add ,  Signal Overage , or  Time  basis. Recurring Set up a Recurring charge if the service occurs on a monthly, annual, or other basis.  For example, with an active price, a $10.00 ...

Based on the Billing Codes references on the Monitoring Types created within the Supervisor Workstation the Billing Charges require creation on the individual Dealer records.   Creating Billing Charges on a Dealer Load the Dealer...

The  Billing Rates  card allows you to attach a rate table to an item price and/or time price. Rate tables calculate rates based on certain requirements.  For instance, if a service exists for monitoring basic alarms, the Monitoring Company might cr...

Understanding Rate Tables There is a lot of flexibility within the Dealer Billing rate tables. It is not necessary to have different billing codes for each level and maintain that information manually on customer records . A Rate table may c...

Dealer Billing reports help complete the Billing process when linked to accounting software.  For more on reports within the Manitou system, refer to Reporting . Dealer Billing Reports  Customer Signal Count Generator - This is t...