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The Recurring Billing Generation program creates the recurring billings for a lease and places them in the Tenant/Lease Billings Detail file (F1511). These billings are based on the setup information in the Recurring Billings Master file (F1502).
JD Edwards World recommends that you set up a different DREAM Writer version of this program for each billing period and for each company that has a different fiscal pattern and fiscal year. This eliminates the need to change the processing options and data selection for each billing generation.
For an overview of the billing process, see Chapter 72, "Recurring Billing Process" in this guide.
From the Real Estate Management System menu (G15), choose Recurring Billing.
From the Recurring Billing menu (G1521), choose Recurring Billing Generation.
When you choose the program from the Recurring Billing menu, the system displays a DREAM Writer version list. From this screen, you can copy, change, or run a version of the program. For an overview of the DREAM Writer facility, see Appendix B, "DREAM Writer Overview" in this guide.
The system can create prorated and catch-up billings for billings that occur monthly on a regular calendar month basis or for billings with a special billing frequency connected to a fiscal date pattern. A processing option controls whether the system calculates prorated and catch-up billings.
Prorated billings involve recurring billings that either started or ended partially within the billing period. To prorate such a billing, the system takes the number of days the billing was in effect for the period and compares it to the total number of days in the period.
A processing option controls the number of days on which the system bases prorated billings. They can be based on a 30 day month, the actual number of days in the calendar month, or the Quarter Day method.
See Section 186.27, "Recurring Billing Generation - Period 01 (P15100)."
The system opens a new batch and assigns the number of the batch to the recurring billings that are created. The batch type for the unposted batch is 1, and the billings are generation type 1.
The billing period you specify on the Data Selection screen for the DREAM Writer version must be the same as the one you specify in processing option 2. The Billing Period data field must contain X to match the code for the billing frequency.
Before you generate billings, you can run the report, Recurring Billing Facsimile, to preview the billings.