Billing Request Estimate Fields

These are descriptions of fields on the Billing Request by Estimate detail window.

Pre Bill Date. Indicates the date on which the PBA will process the billing activity for the estimate if the client is scheduled on the Billing Calendar.. For an Overnight PBA request, key the date (MMDDYY) to collect the estimate activity on the overnight PBA. If you selected the Immediate PBA option, this field is for display only and shows the current system date when you click the Recalc icon.

Bill Month/Bill Year. Key the current system month/year (MMYY) or a future month/year through which to collect activity for billing. You may leave blank and click the Recalc icon to display the current system month/year.

Bill Ordered Code. To override the profile setting from Profiles Definition, key one of the following codes to indicate how the client is to be billed for this request. If you leave this field blank and click the Recalc icon recalcul.gif, the setting from the profile displays if it is C or O. If the profile setting is P or X, this field remains blank, but you can override it by keying C or O. You may not override the Bill Ordered Code to P or X.

C  Bill client on clearances.

O  Bill client on ordered insertions.

WARNING: If the profile setting is O and you override it by keying C, the billing will be reversed for any buys related to that profile that were completely billed but not cleared.

Bill Ordered Percent.  Key the bill ordered percentage as a decimal. For example, key .85 to specify 85%.  If the Bill Ordered Code is O you may leave this field blank and click the Recalc icon to display the percent from the profile.

You may only key a bill ordered percent to override the profile setting from Profiles Definition if this is the first billing month for the estimate and the Bill Ordered Code is either O, P or X. Although P or X may be entered on the profile, only C or O can display or be entered in this option.

Vendor Detail. Click the check box to display a check to include vendor and insertion detail on the PBA Report. Vendor and insertion detail is always shown on the PBA for activity requested by client or media, but activity requested by estimate is only displayed in detail if this check box is checked when you submit the billing request.