Contracts-Billing Interface Process (CA_BI_INTFC)

Run the Contracts-Billing Interface Application Engine process, also called the Billing Engine, in PeopleSoft Contracts for the appropriate billing methods to send Contracts-related and Project Costing-related billing activity to PeopleSoft Billing.

This process selects transaction rows (for rate-based billing methods) or billing plan lines (for fixed-amount billing methods) that are marked in PeopleSoft Contracts as ready to bill, and creates bill rows in the PeopleSoft Billing Interface tables (INTFC_BI and its related tables). After the Contracts-Billing Interface process stages billing data in these tables, the Billing Interface Application Engine process creates bills.

See the PeopleSoft Contracts: Running the Contracts Billing Interface Process and PeopleSoft Contracts: Understanding the Contracts Billing Process.

Direct Invoicing

You can select the Pre Approved and Direct Invoice billing options in the Billing Plan - Billing Plan General page in PeopleSoft Contracts to bypass the invoice approval process in PeopleSoft Billing.

For additional product information about direct invoicing and interunit billing see the PeopleSoft Contracts: Understanding the Contracts Billing Process topic.

For additional information about the Contracts to Billing Interface process, see PeopleSoft Contracts: Running the Contracts Billing Interface Process.

For additional information about billing plans, seePeopleSoft Contracts: Defining Billing Plans.

Interunit Billing

The system uses accounting rules to send data to the Contracts-Billing Interface process to forward to PeopleSoft Billing. You set up the revenue distribution and the offsetting contract asset account for rate-based contract lines on the Accounting Rules page. If the general ledger business unit for the debit side of a transaction is different from the general ledger business unit for the credit side of a transaction, the system generates interunit entries when you run the Process Project Accounting process.

See PeopleSoft Contracts: Accounting Distributions for Interunit Transfers.