For Direct Bill Jobs including GSA Jobs that are direct bills, we have added new functionality to automate this process as much as possible.
First on the Vendor Window, we have added a Commission % and a checkbox for “Use Profit Margin”.
Only one of these values can be set per vendor.
Second, we added a checkbox to the Company Location Window called “Is Direct Bill”.
This checkbox will prompt the user creating new projects for this company that they should be check the box labeled Direct Bill (or at least to think about it) on the new Project Information Module when trying to save the new project without setting this value.
When importing a bill of materials, adding parts using ProjectMatrix, or adding parts using another method and the project is set to direct bill, the appropriate vendor commission or “Use Profit Margin’ will be applied to new items. If use profit margin is the setting, then any changes to the BOM that would affect the profit margin, will update the vendor commission with the profit margin automatically.
When the BOM is processed in the Order Entry Module, the commission percentage and the amount will process over for each different percentage. All items that are non-vendor items such as labor freight and other manufacturers will process over in the full amounts and that will be the money to be collected from the Direct Bill Vendor.
When you go to process Purchase Orders you can use the quick “Zero Cost on Selected” button to clear the cost on all line items as with typical Direct Bills you will not receive an invoice from the Vendor rather you would receive the check for the pre-determined Vendor Commission.
