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Overview
Readysell's meter charging process is oriented around the following concepts:
Aggregation, Readysell allows you to aggregate meter quantities to any level. Some of the common aggregation levels are:
Individual meter
Subtotal, such as three colour meters that add up to the total colour
Subtotal of other subtotals and individual meters. Such as a hire charge which depends on both a individual mono meter and a subtotal colour meter which itself is the total of three individual colour meters
Total being the grand total for a machine
Total machine having it's own totals, subtotals and grand totals for any number of other machines
Machine charge group bring a group of total machines or individual machines. Groups of total or other machines can be placed in a machine charge group. If so that group of machines will be charged together, even if the machines are individual machines, children of different total machines or many different stand alone total machines
- Charge, a single simple set of charging rules is applied to every meter. The aggregation rules handle all totals in advance. All the charging rules have to do is, for every meter:
- charge the actual usage using a list of quantity break prices. If you don't want to charge at any level of aggregation, set the price to zero at that level
- change the minimum charge. Being the minimum quantity less the actual quantity multiplied by the minimum price. Where the actual quantity is less than the minimum quantity and the minimum price is not zero
- Charge cycle, a minimum and actual charge cycle being the number of months between minimum and actual charges:
- normally each month
- may may be zero for a short term hire machine
- may be quarterly, yearly etc. for special cases
- Charge to, being a any one of:
- the customer that owns the machine
- a charge to customer being different to the one that owns the machine, such as a manufacturer
- a charge split, such as the first n quantity or value charges to the finance company while the excess charges to the customer
- Charge product, which determines the general ledger account to which any charge goes for each meter:
- every meter has a different charge product
- the same meter name at each level of aggregation charge to a different general ledger account
Breaking up aggregation from changing makes for a very flexible system. You can charge at more than one level and reuse actuals for more than one purpose, such as for colour charge, subtotaled for hire charge, total machine for contract and group of total machines for enterprise.
Meter aggregation and charging examples
Examples of features that are now supported:
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