With this billing method, utility costs are allocated to all rooms listed in the lease agreement in proportion to their floor area.
Note: This utility billing scenario is only available if eTASK.Energy Consumption Billing is installed. It is also closely related to the “Standard Billing” billing scenario. The description provided here should be understood as supplementary to or deviating from the standard billing. This means that the steps in the standard billing must also be performed, or the underlying data generated there must be available, in order for this billing scenario to be successfully executed.
Advantages:
After configuring this consumption billing variant, only the meter readings need to be logged for successful billing.
Disadvantages:
It is not possible to track on a monthly basis which tenant is assigned which consumption
Losses are neither traceable nor billable
Tip: Always configure consumption billing before recording the first meter readings. This ensures that the configuration for allocated costs is applied immediately. If you make the settings later, you must manually add the cost allocations to ensure correct billing.
Differences from the standard scenario:
The consumption costs recorded in eTASK.Energy Consumption Billing are allocated instead of invoice amounts
Steps 10 and 12 of the “Standard Billing” billing scenario are omitted
Prerequisite
You are familiar with the “Standard Billing” billing scenario
The meter data record is available
Procedure in the FM Portal
Path to the starting point: Technical Building Management - Energy Consumption Billing - Meters
Before calculating the building’s operating costs in eTASK.Operating Cost Billing:
Open the data record for the meter you want to configure.
In the Billing section, select “Relevant for operating cost billing” in the Billing Type dropdown menu. The fields below will be activated.
In the Lease Agreement dropdown menu, select the lease agreement to which the costs are to be allocated.
In the Cost Center dropdown menu, select the cost center for the building or buildings in which the rented rooms are located.
In the Building dropdown menu, select the building in which the rooms are located.
In the "Different G/L Account" dropdown, select the G/L account to which the consumption costs will be posted. This G/L account must match one of the G/L accounts from Step 3 of the "Standard Billing" billing scenario.
Enter the meter readings.
The utility costs are now allocated to the rooms in the lease agreement when you calculate the building’s operating costs.
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