About Contract Billing Rules

A contract's billing rules determine whether you can over-bill line items on invoices against the contract. Proliance has three contract billing rules: Controlled Total, Uncontrolled Total, and Variable Total. A contract must always adhere to one of the three billing rules. Note that auto-commit contracts can only use Controlled Total billing rules.

Uncontrolled total contracts are useful for contractors who want to be able to bill the owner or the client for all work performed without increasing the original contract value.
Variable total contracts can be used when a contractor wants to instruct a subcontractor to proceed with extra work, but does not want to write a change order for the extra work until the work is completed. Or, the contractor might want to be able to write a single change order for all extra work. However, the contractor can still pay the subcontractor for work performed when the subcontractor submits invoices. Once the work is complete, the contractor knows the amount required for the change order.

	Controlled Total	Uncontrolled Total	Variable Total
Over-billing on invoice line items permitted	No	Yes	Yes
Contract value changes after line item over-billing	—	No	Yes
Committed costs increase after over-billing	—	No	Yes
Can edit the Scheduled Amt and Scheduled Qty on any invoice	No	No	No; only possible on a new invoice