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Billing fees have a configurable billing fee rate, which is subject to validity dates and can therefore change over time, and a rule that determines how the fee is calculated.

Currently, one rule called AOG Admin Fee is available and it applies the following formula to calculate the billing fee:As of v12.21, the following billing fee rules are available.

Rule Name

Description

Formula

AOG Admin Fee - Pre Gen 3

This rule supports New Zealand AOG staff procurement contracts that commenced prior to September 2023.

(pay amount + provider fee) x billing fee rate

Where:

pay amount is the amount paid to the payee

provider fee is the margin amount (ie.

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bill amount exc. tax - pay amount - bill oncosts)

billing fee rate is the fee percentage that is applicable on the invoice date.

AOG Admin Fee - Gen 3

This rule supports New Zealand AOG staff procurement contracts that commenced from September 2023. These are also known as Generation 3 contracts.

provider feebilling fee rate

Where:

provider fee is the margin amount (ie. bill amount exc. tax - pay amount - bill oncosts)

billing fee rate is the fee percentage that is applicable on the invoice date.

Billing fees are exclusive of tax (GST/VAT or equivalent).

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Invoice Component

Field

Description

Invoice Items

Agency Fee

Prints the agency fee amount that applies to the listed invoice item.

This amount is the margin amount divided by the pay rate.

Invoice Items

Billing Fee Total

Prints the total amount of all billing fees that apply to the listed invoice item.

This field does not need to be included in an invoice format if there is only ever can be used where only one type of billing fee that is applicable. Where that is the case, applies to invoice items or, if multiple types of billing fees apply, it can be used in conjunction with the Billing Fee: <billing fee name> field can be used to print the rule name> fields to show an overall total of the individual billing fee that applies without printing a separate overall total applicable billing fees at the invoice item level (for more information, see below).

Invoice Items

Billing Fee: <billing fee name>rule name>

Prints the billing fee amount that applies to the listed invoice item, where <billing fee name> <billing fee rule name> is the name of the billing fee , as configured in Billing > Maintenance > Billing Fees, that has been applied to the listed invoice itemrule (e.g. AOG Admin Fee - Gen 3).

A separate Billing Fee: <billing fee name> rule name> field is available in the Portal Maintenance > Document Formats module per for each unique billing fee rule that is referenced by billing fees that are configured under Billing > Maintenance > Billing Fees.

This caters for situations whereby multiple billing fees, with different billing fee rules, apply to invoice items because it allows each of the billing fees to be itemised separately at the invoice item level.

Invoice Items

Margin

Prints the agency's profit margin for the listed invoice item.

This is calculated as <bill total> – <pay total>.

Oncosts are not factored into this calculation and therefore this amount is not necessarily the same as the provider fee that is referenced by the AOG Admin Fee rulebilling fee rule.

Invoice Items

Oncost Group <oncost group name>

Prints the sum of all oncost amounts that are applicable to the listed invoice item, where those oncosts are part of the corresponding oncost group.

A separate Oncost Group <oncost group name> field is available in the Portal Maintenance > Document Formats module per unique oncost group that is configured under Portal > Billing > Maintenance > Oncost Groups. For more information, see Oncost Group Maintenance.


An example of an invoice that has been generated using a document format that uses some of the billing fee related fields described in the table is shown below.

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For more information about invoice formats, see Document Formats.

The sample invoice below shows how the abovementioned fields could be incorporated into an invoice format to facilitate billing fees.

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