9. Billing

The following summaries the changes for this module;

Area	Change Details	Change Type
Billing Maintenance	There is a change in the menu structure; Invoice Batch Manage Invoice/Credit Notes Manage Credit Rebill Manage Delivery Invoice Log Debtor Reports - moved from Silverlight into Angular. No change to report design or parameters. Maintenance - All maintenance items have been moved under a new menu item called maintenance, which includes the below; Taxation Time Group Terms Email Templates (Has been moved to Global as a shared maintenance screen) Messages Billing Fees Oncost Groups Billing Company Debtor – move to main Billing menu. Purchase Orders(Billing Groups, Alert Templates, Alert Service – has been removed at set a default time)	UI
Billing Maintenance/Oncost Groups	A change has been applied to the Oncost Groups that now provides a Multi-select list of oncosts to be included in the group. Where there are more than 6 items selected the user needs to review the drop down list for the selected items.	UI
Manage Invoice/Credit Notes	The Search screen parameters have been updated to order them in the most commonly used order. The default Status has been changed from Open to Close in the search.	UI
	On Editing an invoice/credit note the actions to Edit or delete an invoice item have been moved from the right most columns to the left most column.	UI
	The Select Debtor fields have been added to the header of the invoice/credit note not as a fly out as per Silverlight.	UI
Credit Rebill	The credit rebill process maintains its wizard design and is mostly unchanged. The Update Rates stage screen has been changed to include the filters as a header of the invoice items list.	UI
Manage Delivery	The Search screen parameters have been updated to order them in the most commonly used order.	UI
Invoice Log	The Search screen parameters have been updated to order them in the most commonly used order.	UI
Reports	The design of the Billing reports has changed to load a search parameter screen where the user selected from a list of reports to execute. The reports remain unchanged.	UI
Temp /Contract Invoice Process	A new feature will be added to the product to support the ability to split billcodes/bill code types onto separate invoices; BillCode Invoice Grouping: A new maintenance item will be added in the Billing module to cater for configuring bill code invoice group that can define how invoices are to be split by bill element types. Assignment of Bill Code Group to Debtor Invoice Details: A new field must be added to the Billing > Debtor > Debtor Entry > Invoice Details screen to allow a bill code group to be assigned to a set of invoice details. Invoice Batch Process Enhancements: The invoice batch process must be enhanced to create separate invoices based on the applicable invoice split bill code group.	New Feature
Invoice Format	A new feature will be added to the product to support the ability to add the timesheet approver names and approval details to the invoice format for temporary and contractor invoices.	New Feature
Auto Invoice Service	A new feature will be added to the product to support the ability to auto create permanent/service fee invoices based on the fees created on a job order. Recruitment Manager Service Fee Maintenance will be enhanced to allow a service fee to be flagged as being auto invoiceable and, where flagged as such, to allow the relevant bill code and invoice type account group to be selected. The Service Fee section on the Recruitment Manager Job Order screen for permanent job orders will be enhanced to include an action that will allow users to trigger the generation of invoices for services fees that are associated with the job order. An auto invoice generation service will be added to automate the generation of a permanent/adhoc invoice based on the service fees that are applicable to a permanent job order. New security permissions will be added to control which front office users can flag a service fee as being auto invoiceable and can trigger the automatic creation of a perm invoice.	New Feature