Manage Billing Heads – A summary of the activity

This activity enables you to define and manage all the categories under which the final billing must take place.  You can define various charges that are to be billed to the customer.

Based on the charges, these billing heads are grouped as follows:

Fixed Charges: These charges represent the ones that need to be billed either one time or on a periodic basis. Example: Mobilization fee, De-mobilization Fee and Monthly Standing Fee.

Operating Charges: This is the fee that is charged on the customer, based on operation / non-operation of the aircraft. Based on the nature of the charges, operating charges are sub-classified into the following:

1. Usage - Aircraft Usage that needs to be billed i.e., block hour based or flight hour based.

2. Fuel - Billing head under which fuel consumed on flight operations need to be billed.

3. Crew Billing - Billing head under which billing for crew members is to be raised

4. Activity – Billing head definitions for various aircraft level activities carried out. Example: Timber logging, Oil rig, etc.

5. No flight - These refer to the charges in which idle hours of the aircraft need to be billed.

6. Other Operating charges: Define the billing heads for any other operating charges that need to be billed to the customer. Example: Landing fee, Navigation fee, etc

Crew Charges: Any other charges that need to be reimbursed to the crew members can be billed using these heads. Example: Lunch and accommodation expense of Crew members.

Other Charges: Any other charges which are not crew-specific. Example: Travelling Expenses, internet charges, etc.