Using Billing Classes
You can use billing classes to set billable time rates for service items based on employees.
When different employees charge different rates for the same service, create billing classes and assign a billing class to employees. Then, determine pricing for each billing class on service item records. Then, the correct pricing defaults when an employee enters billable time to invoice the customer.
You can create a billing classes for individual employees or groups of employees and charge a different rate for each.
For example, a law office can use billing classes to charge specific hourly rates for time billed by partners in the firm:
For example, you run a law firm and create two billing classes called Junior Partner and Senior Partner. You associate the Junior Partner and Senior Partner billing classes with the service item Initial Consultation and set the appropriate billing rates for each. Also, you select the Junior Partner billing class on John Smith's employee record. Then, when John Smith enters billable time for an initial consultation, the time is billed at the junior partner rate by default.
Using Billing Classes requires the four following steps:
Enable the Bill Costs to Customers feature
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Go to Setup > Company > Enable Features (Administrator).
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Click the Transactions subtab and check the Bill Costs to Customers box under Billing.
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Click the Employees subtab and under Time & Expenses, check the Time Tracking box .
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Check the Per-Employee Billing Rates box.
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Click Save.
Now that these features are enabled, you can create billing classes. Create a billing class for each category you want to create prices for.