Open a time & Material job and click on the Billings tab. Click on the New button to create a new billing.
Select the Time and Material Sales Order from Expense Transactions option. Click Next to continue.
Enter the date that is to be used to scan transactions. If this T&M billing is for the end of last month, enter the last day of last month in the date field. Click on the Next button to continue.
All general ledger accounts that are identified as Direct Job Cost Accounts will be listed. Go to General Ledger > Chart of Accounts > Advanced tab to identify the Direct Job Cost Accounts. Note that all accounts will be listed if the Job Costing > Options > Direct Job Cost Account option is turned OFF.
Highlight an account within the include list and press the Remove button to move an account to the ignore list. If you wish to move all accounts from the include list click the Remove All button. If you wish to include an account that is listed in the right window and has been ignored, click the Add button.
Click the switch to the left of the Use price level for inventory items option ON to use a specific price level for all inventory items. Click the option OFF if you wish to markup ALL items (including inventory items) based on a percentage rate.
Enter the Markup percentage rate to be used for all other items such as non-inventory materials. If the Use price level for inventory items switch is OFF all inventory will be priced using the Markup all other items percentage. This markup value will not affect any labor costs.
Click on the Next button to continue to the next page:
All labor work codes that should be billed to the customer must be displayed in the left window and all the work codes to ignore should appear on the right side. Highlight any work code on the include list and click on the Remove button to move the work code to the ignore list in the right window. Highlight and click the Add button to move a work code from the ignore list back to the left window.
All work codes displayed on the include list must also contain a Labor Rate. Enter the unit Labor Rate used to bill a customer. If the labor for this T&M job is billed at the same rate, enter the rate within each work code. Click the Next button to continue.
Select the All Stages option to invoice all expenses. Select the second option and set the range of stages to scan only the expenses allocated to a limited list of stages. This option is useful to invoice the customer for a specific stage. Click Next or Finish button to continue. The following dialog will only appear if an existing sales order exists.
A new billing can be added to either an existing sales order or a new sales-order.
To Create a new sales order select the first option; select the second option to Add to sales order and choose the desired sales order to append to an existing order.
Click the Finish button to add transactions to a sales order.
Note: Inventory items previously purchased or transferred to a job will be listed on the sales order but the inventory codes will not be listed. Items are removed from Inventory at the time they are allocated to a job instead of the time a sales invoice is processed. The inventory history found in the Inventory > Inventory Items > year tabs window will reflect the transfer from inventory to a job. Do not use an inventory item code on an invoice for an item that was previously transferred to a job using the Job Cost > Inventory Transfer window. This would cause the inventory count to be deducted twice, once when it was transferred to a job and again at the time it was sold.
Delete the sales order if mistakes were detected. The wizard can be activated again to create another sales order.
Exit the sales order window and the following prompt will appear:
Click YES to mark the transactions as billed so they will not appear when the wizard creates future billings for a job. This selection should be used if the sales order that was created or appended is correct.
Click NO if you wish to run the wizard again and ignore the current sales order. THE TRANSACTIONS THAT WERE CREATED WITHIN THE SALES ORDER WILL NOT BE DELETED by selecting NO. The sales order must be deleted by selecting File > Delete from the sales order menu. If the transactions were appended to an existing sales order, the new sales order lines must be deleted individually.
Follow the steps listed within the next section if the transactions were marked billed but the user wishes to rerun the Create Sales Order wizard.