Program PMFB, Fulfillment Project Billing Calculator, is used to calculate the billing counts for billing lines whose frequency is set to On Demand in program PMFM, Fulfillment Project Billing Maintenance.
Billing counts are calculated according to the set up on the billing lines in program PMFM, Fulfillment Project Billing Maintenance. For more information, see program PMFM, Fulfillment Project Billing Maintenance.
This program should be run as the fulfillment house customer for customer projects.
The upper block contains the parameters for billing calculations. The middle blocks contain the billing lines that can be billed and their information. The lower block contains past collection counts for the selected billing line.
Only collection lines entered for projects for customers in the fulfillment database or for the fulfillment customer can be used in this program.
1. Enter the Bill Group for which you are calculating billing.
2. Enter the first date from which you are collecting billing counts. The date range entered must be fully contained in a single billing period as defined in program PMBC, Maintain Project Billing Calendar.
* Once you have collected billing counts for a date range, you can no longer collect for that range. For example, if the date range entered here was 08-01-00 to 08-14-00, and counts were collected, you could no longer collect billing counts for that range. You could collect counts for 08-15-00 to 08-31-00.
3. Enter the last date from which you are collecting billing counts. The date range entered must be fully contained in a single billing period as defined in program PMBC, Maintain Project Billing Calendar.
* Once you have collected billing counts for a date range, you can no longer collect for that range. For example, if the date range entered here was 08-01-00 to 08-14-00, and counts were collected, you could no longer collect billing counts for that range. You could collect counts for 08-15-00 to 08-31-00.
4. Press the [Query] button to retrieve all billing lines for which counts can be calculated.
5. The billing line information is displayed, including the detail information.
6. To collect billing counts for a line, set the select flag to the left of the billing line to on.
* To select all billing lines for processing, press the [Select All] 
button. This will set the flag to on for all billing lines.
* You can deselect billing lines after this button has been pressed.
7. If you are not collecting billing counts for a line, set the select flag to the left of the billing line to off.
* To deselect all billing lines for processing, press the [Deselect All] 
button. This will set the flag to off for all billing lines.
* You can select billing lines after this button has been pressed.
8. The [Show History] button will display the billing collection history for the billing line.
9. When all desired billing lines have been selected, press the [Process Selection] button.
10. The program will collect the billing counts according to the set up of the billing lines and the collection period will be re-queried.
Press this button to set the selection flag to on for all billing lines.
Press this button to collect counts for the selected billing lines.
Press this button to query the billing lines for which billing counts can be collected.
Press this button to set the selection flag to off for all billing lines.
Press this button to view the collection log.
Press this button to display the collection history for this billing line.