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Hi Geoff - We would like the standby charge rate to populate in T&M based on your hierarchy you posted earlier. Currently I believe ET sends a quantity of one but no dollar amount to T&M when the standby charge is a daily/weekly/monthly rate rather than hours for ES. It will send it as a quantity of one each time the recurring transaction report is run. We can work with that if the current charge rate comes through as well. 

More questions:

ES time is generated by Equipment Tracking.  ET charges the job in hours, by day, by week, by month.  How would you all expect these charges to flow to T+M?

My initial thought was to use hours...but ET doesn't always charge out in hours. 

So what ideas do you all have here?

Yes that is correct.  Along with the hours coming over in T&M not as zero but as what they are in stand by.

Something like this?

Essentially we want the standby hours (not zeros) to come across to T&M and to have separate billing rates to customers for EU and ES time.  The charge rate does not impact the T&M side for us as we do not use cost plus for equipment.

Ok everyone - Is this on the right track?

Today, standby time appears in the T+M module, but it exists at a zero dollar rate and billing amount.  

Enhance the way equipment standby time posts to the T+M billing tables so that it includes the standby charge dollar amount.  Spectrum would pass the standby charge rate over to T+M and add the extension (hours x standby charge).  This will allow the contractor to bill for standby time on cost plus jobs.

The standby charge rate would follow the current logic and be determined as follows:

1. First, the system will look for job-specific equipment standby rate.  
2. If none specified, it will use the equipment's standard standby rate.
3. If none was found, a zero will be sent to T+M as in past versions.  

Questions:

1. Is this the need?  Is there anything missing?
   
2. Is everyone OK with the fact that we are charging the T+M job the standby cost amount?

Let me know your thoughts.  Thanks!

Geoff

We would like to have the standby rates flow to T&M and be able to have separate customer billing rates for this vs. EU.  We can charge our customers for EU and ES time, but ES time is lower.

I can't think of an instance in which we wouldn't want them to flow to T&M. If we are billing a project T&M and we have some of our equipment checked out on that job we definitely want to bill for the rental. Our billing is based on daily, weekly, monthly - rarely is it based on hours.

Would there ever be a time when we would NOT want these rates to be sent to T+M?

Geoff - The stand-by rates (daily/weekly/monthly) do not flow to the T&M module; they come through blank. 

Would someone elaborate a bit on this request?