Setting Up Meter Charge Price Increases on Meters

Manually setting up/modifying parameters on the Meters in order to run the Task to Increase the Price of the Meter charge.

Setup

Meter Product Prices to be excluded from the price increase

1. Firstly ensure to flag the meter product price types you want to be excluded from the auto increase meter price. You do not have to increase the prices on all meter types

2. If you should have more than one-meter product price type on a meter, you can Add/Change any meter product price to be Excluded from the price increase by clicking on the check box 'exclude' check box.

3. Navigate to the machine

4. Highlight the meter

5. Click on Tab > Prices

6. Highlight the meter type if you have more than one type on that meter that you wish to be excluded and click on the check box of 'Excluded' 

7. Click on Save
   This meter product price will not be increased.

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Auto Increase rules on the Meter

1. On each meter ensure to set up the values required
2. Navigate to the machine
3. Search and highlight the machine in question
4. Ensure to review your meter product prices firstly noted above 'Meter Product Prices to be excluded from the price increase'
5. Then stay on the same meter, click on the tab 'Auto Increases'
6. Review the date in the field 'last increase date'. If you are setting up this rule the first time around, ensure the date is today if you are wanting the price increase task to run tonight.
7. Insert into the field 'Auto Increase Months' when you want the next increase to happen. Eg 12 means in 12 months time from the last increase date
8. For each meter type, insert the right values for either Auto increase Price Percentage, Auto increase price before factor value, or Auto increase price after factor value by clicking on New  
   
   1. Last Auto Increase: is a date field. If you are just starting to use this feature then set this date to be the start date. If the task has run prior, the system will populate and update the date to be the last date the task ran.
   2. Auto Increase Months: Enter the number of months before the next auto increase meter price task runs
   3. Auto Increase Price Percentage : Enter the Percentage you wish the meter price to increase for each of the meter types.
   4. Auto Increase Price Before Factor : Enter a dollar value if you wish to increase the meter price by a $value before applying the percentage increase
   5. Auto Increase Price After Factor: Enter a dollar value if you wish to increase the meter price by a $value before applying the percentage increase

   
   Once you have done that click Save and repeat the steps for all the meters types on that machine meter by clicking on NEW eg a rule for the meter type of 'Count' then another rule for the meter type of 'Minimum' etc as long as that meter product price has not been set up to be Excluded from the price increase.

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   When the task runs, the audit trail is shown on each meter in the auto increases tab under the Charges
   
   
   
   
9. Either activate the task or control the price increase task manually (speak to readysell)

You can run a List Report called 'Auto Increase Meter Charge Report' L-080. Add any extra fields that you require to the report. Check the report before the task runs for the initial run.

Once all the parameters are set up on the appropriate machine. meters, you need to run the following task manually the first time around and then set it to run automatically.

When the task runs, the meter price will increase according to the meter price increase settings on each of the meters

Once the task has run, the system stores a log on each Machine Meter within the tab of 'Auto Increases'

Giving you the Old price/New Price/Auto Increase Price Percentage/Auto increase Price Before Factor/Auto Increase Price After Factor.

Readysell suggests that you set up a few meter price increase on some meters on the TEST database BEFORE LIVE,
Run the Task and check the results before attempting in Live.

Ensure you contact Readysell Support the first time around before you set the task to be Enabled.

Enabling the Task

1. Administration>Advanced>Tasks>Auto Increase Meter Charges.
2. Run a report to check the result or check a few machines to ensure that the task has recalculated the prices correctly

3. If it all looks good then set the task to be Enabled.
   
   

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