The Bill Paragraphs window

Field

Description

Formatting toolbar

Use the options on this toolbar to apply formatting to the selected text in the edit field.

Billing Paragraphs area

This is where you can view the included paragraphs, their order, and the amounts allocated against each paragraph as they will be displayed in the invoice. Type directly into the Amount and Tax column.

You can drag the column headings to put them in a different order. The column width can be amended by clicking and dragging the column dividers with the mouse.

Edit field

The bottom half of the page contains the edit area where you can type text to appear on the bill, or make changes to existing billing paragraphs. Select a billing paragraph in the list to display its contents in the edit area. This is where you apply formatting to the bill text.

Right–click menu

A right–click menu is available on the page. It contains two options:

• Field Chooser
  From here you can select the columns of information you want to be displayed for each paragraph. Click the option to access the Field Chooser window, then drag fields from the window to the billing paragraphs area to display that field. You can also drag fields from the page to the Field Chooser window if you no longer want them displayed.

• Show/Hide Detail
  A toggle option. Click to turn on or off the edit area in the bottom half of the page. You can enter text directly into the edit area or make changes to existing paragraphs.

Print Line Detail

The four list boxes allow you to determine the amount of detail displayed for the various transactions you are billing. For each transactions type you can choose from the following options:

• Summary – shows one billing paragraph for the total amount being billed.

• Group by Assignment – creates a billing paragraph for each assignment being billed, for example you may have one paragraph for personal tax and another for corporate tax.

• Group by Assignment Type – creates a billing paragraph for each assignment type being billed, for example you may have one paragraph for compliance work (which would include both types of tax from the above example) and another for consultancy services.

• Group by Code – creates a billing paragraph for each code type being billed, for example you may have one paragraph for meetings and another for administration.

• Group by Employee – creates a billing paragraph for each employee against whom you are billing for the client.

• Detailed – creates a billing paragraph for each transaction being billed.

The Users Total and Actual (Required) Total amounts in this page must match before you can proceed with billing. If the totals do not match you will see this icon. The icon will disappear once the two totals match. These total fields are just for display. You cannot edit the amounts in them. To make the totals match you need to amend the amounts against the individual billing paragraphs.

TIP

You can highlight an amount and then double–click it to automatically adjust the selected amount so that it creates the correct total required for the bill.

If you are billing at the client level (that is, from the Bills tab on the Client page) this will read This Client. If you are billing at the assignment level (that is, from the Bills tab on the Assignment page) this will read This Assignment.

Click to access the Posted Bills window from where you can view the billing paragraphs used in previous bills and copy them into the current draft bill. See the topic Copying text from other bills for more information.

If you are billing at the client level (that is, from the Bills tab on the Client page) this will read Other Client. If you are billing at the assignment level (that is, from the Bills tab on the Assignment page) this will read Other Assignment.

Click to access the Posted Bills window from where you can view the billing paragraphs used in previous bills and copy them into the current draft bill. See the topic Copying text from other bills for more information.

Click to move the selected billing paragraph line up the list.

Click to move the selected billing paragraph line down the list.

Click to access the Master Paragraphs window from where you can drag paragraphs onto the Bill Paragraphs page to add them to the bill. You can amend them if required using the edit field.

If you want to remove your edits (either the text or default amounts,) you can click the Re–generate Bill lines button to reset the content to the default text and amounts. The Regenerate Print Lines message will appear. Click Yes to return to the default text for all paragraphs.

Click to add a new empty paragraph. Select the existing paragraph line that you want to precede the new line, then click the Add button. The new blank line will be added below the selected line.

Deletes the selected paragraph.