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Using the Service Call Costs Window

Using the Service Call Costs Window

You can view current unposted, committed, and actual costs and anticipated billable information in the Service Call Costs window. Margin information is shown; however, tax information is not included. This window also provides zoom capability for each cost category and cost type.

Notes:

  • This window cannot be accessed:

    • If the service call has an invoice or credit memo saved to a batch. In the event that the user opens the window and another saves an invoice or credit memo to a batch, a message displays indicating that the service call cannot be accessed or that the Recalculate Billing Rates window cannot be accessed.

    • If you are using SOP Invoicing.

  • This window is primarily used for OPEN service calls. While you can use this to view closed service calls, you will only see:

    • Committed costs: The call was invoiced or closed with committed or saved purchase orders.

    • Unposted costs: Unposted costs that exist on the call even though the call is closed.

Access the Service Call Costs window

Access the Service Call Costs window from the:

  • Service Call window: Select the Call Costs button in the ribbon.

  • Service Manager window:

    • Select the customer and location. Right-click on a service call in the scrolling window and select View Service Call Costs.

    • Select the customer and location. Select the History icon. In the Service Call Lookup by Customer window, right-click on a service call in the scrolling window, and select View Service Call Costs.

Viewing Service Call and Cost Information

  1. In the Service Call Costs window, the following service call information is automatically populated:

    • Customer ID

    • Location Address ID

    • Service Call ID

    • Service Call Note

    • Date

    • Description

    • Description Note

    • Problem Type

    • Call Type

    • Division

    • Contract Number

    • Call Status

  2. The cost and billing information section displays the following information:

    • Unposted Costs
      To view all unposted cost transactions for the service call, zoom on the Unposted Costs column header. This included unposted purchase orders, which is a saved purchase order that isn’t committed. Tax amounts and landed costs are not included in the Unposted Costs column.

    • Committed Costs
      To view all committed cost transactions for the service call, zoom on the Committed Costs column header. Open purchase order amounts are displayed in this column. In the Unposted Costs window, committed purchase order cost amounts only display the purchase order received costs in the Cost column.

    • Actual Costs
      To view all actual cost transactions for the service call, zoom on the Actual Costs column header.

    • Anticipated Billable
      This amount does not include any tax information.

    • Anticipated Percent Markup
      Subtotal Anticipated Billable - Total Anticipated Cost

  3. Select the Equipment, Materials, Subcontractor, or Other row header to view all costs for the service call for that category.

  4. Select the Labor row header to view all Labor transactions for the service call.

If you have the Service Call window open, you can update the Service Call Costs window by using the scroll buttons on the Service Call window to scroll to a different service call.

Enter Manually Added Cost Transactions

In the Service Call Costs window, you can add costs by using the + button to the right of each cost category to access the Added Costs window. See Entering Manually Added Transactions. If you use COGS, the manual accounts must match the normal accounts.

View Individual Cost Transactions

Use the zoom feature to view individual transactions for unposted costs, actual costs, and committed costs totals and to view the transactions that make up the costs for each cost category. For more information, see Viewing Service Call Costs.

View Billing Rates

In the Service Call Costs window, select Billing Rates from the ribbon navigation to open the Recalculate Billing Rates window. Billing rates and pricing markups can be assigned and calculated as the costs are accumulated. Labor transactions default to the labor billing rates. Material and other costs default to the price markup matrices defined for each customer location.

Enter Additional Transactions