Contract Discount Program Pad Days
Utilities Menu -> Counter ->
Contract Discount Program Pad Days
This utility can be used to manage pad days required on specific
rentals to maintain product eligibility for the long term discount
programs as defined in Customer Discount
Programs.
It can be accessed from the Utilities menu for
Counter operations.
Generally the Pad Days value on rental products is zero,
and the discount is based on the actual rental days that a product
is out on a contract.
If a product is exchanged using the Ship Exchange process in
Exchanges By Customer, the Pad Days
transferred to the new equipment is the sum of the actual rental
days that the old product had accumulated plus any Pad Days that it
had been carrying.
This Pad Days value enables the new product to still be
eligible for Customer discounts, without changing the rental time
or any billable rental hours.
This utility can be used to manually adjust the Pad Days
value on rental products.
It can be useful if a contract is returned in error, and the
equipment needs to be put out again on a new contract but should
still be eligible for a continuing discount earned on the old
contract.
The prompts are:
-
- CONTRACT#
- Enter the contract number or select it from the Contract Search window.
CONTRACT LINE
- Enter the product detail sequence number or select it from the
Contract Detail Search window.
PRODUCT NUMBER
- The product number and description are displayed.
The pad days can only be updated for products that are currently
out on the contract.
DATE OUT
- The product date out on the contract is displayed. This is
information only.
CURRENT PAD DAYS
- The current pad days to be used in the discount calculation for
this product is displayed.
This is information only.
LINE PREVIOUSLY ADJUSTED
- This box is checked if there has been a previous manual change
to the pad days on this product.
This box will not be checked if there are no pad days, or if
there is a system calculated pad days value generated from a
Ship Exchange in Exchanges By
Customer.
DATE OUT FOR DISCOUNT
- This date reflects the "date out" to be used to calculate the
eligibility of the product for the Customer
Discount Programs.
It will be the same date as the date out if there are no Pad
Days, or it will be the date out less the Pad Days if a pad has
been entered to accommodate the discount calculation.
NEW PAD DAYS
- This value defaults to the Current Pad Days for this
product, but can be over-typed to change the date that is used to
determine whether the product is eligible for the long term
discounts, that will be reflected in New Date Out For
Discount.
NEW DATE OUT FOR DISCOUNT
- This is the date that will be used to determine eligibility for
the Customer Discount Programs.
It is the product Date Out less any Pad Days.
Finished?
- Click ACCEPT to update the Pad Days and New Date Put for
Discount, or click Cancel to abort.
The change to Pad Days is written to the Override Log that can
be viewed in Print Override
Report.
OVERRIDE REASON CODE
- This pop-up dialogue box only appears if the Reason Codes On
Override feature has been activated in the Company Security Parameters.
Enter the Reason code for the change in the Pad Days or select it
from the drop-down list, as outlined in Prompt for Reason Code.
Topic Keyword: RSCH104 (3875)