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Purpose

You use meters to enter consumption-dependent measurements for the service charge settlement (electricity, water consumption, and so on).

If you use consumption-dependent measurement types, you must create meters for the relevant rental objects otherwise no service charge settlement can be made.

Process Flow

  1. Create meters

    2. In processing of rental objects, create the meters to be used for consumption-dependent service charge keys. The meters are thus assigned to a rental object.

    You use measuring points, measuring point types, measurement positions, and characteristics to determine the location and function of a meter.

    Example

    Measuring point: 98

    Measurement position: Basement room 2

    Measuring point category: Consumption measurement

    Characteristics: Cold water consumption

  2. Enter meter readings.

    3. Use measurement documents for meter readings; meter reading variances are automatically calculated from the measurement documents. You can take the readings from lists (all the meters for one particular rental object) or collective readings (for example, all the meters belonging to a business entity).

    For an accurate service charge settlement, you must have at least two meter readings for the settlement period; the initial reading (the first or lowest reading in the period) and the final reading (highest reading in the period).

  3. Take into account any tenant changeovers.

Tenant changeovers can occur during a settlement period, which may result in several consecutive contracts or vacancies. During tenant changeover, you must therefore take an interim meter reading for consumption-dependent service charge costs so that you have a measurement document.

 

Result

The service charge settlement calculates the consumption-dependent service charges for the rental objects and apportions these costs to the tenants on the basis of the service charge keys and the measurement.

Caution You can also create meters for buildings. However these meter readings are not taken into account by the service charge settlement.

NoteFor more information on meters, see Structure linkMeasuring Points and Counters in the Plant Maintenance (PM) component:

 

 

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