Project Billing Rates
You specify the billing rates for a project when you assign resources to the project's tasks. The employee price rate defaults when you assign a resource to a task, but you can enter a different rate if necessary. If you change the default rate on an employee record, then NetSuite updates the rate on the project record.
You can define pricing for service items in the following ways:
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Use Service Item Price
This is the simplest form of billing. The price for each unit of time defaults from the service item associated with the project task assignment line.
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Price Level
The price level for the associated customer determines the default price for the service item if you assign a customer before saving the project.
If you assign a customer to a project after saving it, then the base price for the service item is used.
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Quantity Pricing
If quantity pricing is enabled, then quantity-based discounts are enabled on a line-by-line basis.
For example, if specific pricing is available for quantities of 10 or more, then that pricing applies only if a single task line has more than 10 units of work associated with it. This means, even if the task has more than 10 units of work associated with it, but they are distributed among multiple resources, then the quantity-based pricing does not apply.
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Use Per-Employee Rates
When per-employee rates are enabled, you can use billing classes with projects. Billing classes lets you create different roles that resources play on a project, for example, Consultant, Analyst, or Project Manager. Billing classes can then be used to create different rates for each of those roles, dependant on what service or item is being offered.
You can assign each employee a default class in the Classification section of the employee record. You can also assign a default billing class to vendors that serve as project resources on the Financial tab of the vendor record. When a resource with a billing class is assigned on a project task, the price for that resource is calculated from the billing class price.
Billing classes can also be assigned to service items for sale and resale. When you assign a billing class to an item, you can define a different price structure that applies only to that service item. When a service item is also used on a project task, the price is calculated based on the service item billing class and will override the default resource billing class price.
If you use billing classes, you can also enable Billing Rate Cards to define different rates for a group of billing classes. You can then assign these rate cards to customers and use them as the basis for time-based charge rules on charge-based billing projects.
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Customize Price on Project Task
Customize the default pricing that is sourced on the task line regardless of any other pricing provided.
When entering time against a project, if a project task is selected, then the billing rate is sourced from the rate on the project task. Since the basic pricing is the same for project tasks and regular billable time entry, this number is normally the same, unless the pricing on the project task has been customized manually.