Milestone Billing Plan
A schedule of dates for billing a customer for percentage values of the total value of a service or product sold.
Milestone billing plans enable you to bill business transactions that involve large sums of money and where a service or product is provided in stages, such as a construction project. As each stage of the project is completed, you can bill the customer for a certain amount of the total value.
Structure
The milestone billing plan contains a header and plan lines for each milestone. Each billing milestone consists of a date and a percentage value of the total value that you wish to bill.
Integration
Milestone billing plans are designed for use in sales quotations and sales orders, as well as for sales items in service contracts.
Note
You cannot use milestone billing plans for items other than sales items in service contracts.
It is not possible to link the milestones in a billing plan to milestones in a project system.
Example
You have created a billing plan for the construction of a warehouse. The total billing value is EURO 820,000.00 and you have agreed that the customer should pay a certain percentage of the total value at specific dates. The following table shows the milestone billing plan for the project:
Billing Plan Dates |
|
|---|---|
Billing plan start date |
10/01/07 |
Billing plan end date |
04/30/08 |
Milestone Dates |
Percentage of Value to be Billed |
Start of ground preparation |
15% |
Completion of foundation |
15% |
Completion of scaffolding |
30% |
Completion of outer walls |
25% |
Completion of inner walls |
15% |
At each stage, the customer pays the agreed percentage of the total value, for example, at the start of ground preparation, EURO 123,000.00.
The system uses the final milestone in the billing plan to bill any remaining quantity so that 100% of the total quantity has been billed.