Manual Bill Entry Validators

This section applies to manually entered bills only

Note, Validators in the General Bill Entry section also work with Manual Billing:

General Bill Entry Validation

Consumption Validation

PPU Validation

VAT & Tax Validation

Charges Validation

General Bill Entry Validation

BE – AccountLinkBillEditCheck 

Stops users making a second change to a bill. It applies to bills older than 30 minutes and is used in conjunction with the Accounts Link Activity

 BE - BillAttachmentValidator 

Checks that an attachment has been added to the manual bill.  The Validator fails if a document has been attached  (generally an image of the bill)

BE – BillEntryStopper

Alerts you if you are trying to save a bill to an Account that has this Validator set up against it 

BE – BillInvoiceDateValidator 

This Validator will fail if a valid date has not been entered in the Invoice date field.

BE – BillInvoiceNumber  

Checks that an invoice number has been entered.  Can also be used to ensure a minimum/maximum length of invoice number 

 BE – BillReceivedDateValidator  

Checks that a received date has been entered in the manual bill.

BE – ElecUseDeMin & BE – GasUseDeMin 

Checks whether a value of 1 has been entered in the deminimus cell. Validator will fail if any other value is there. If the 1 is present and the cost of the invoice is not adding up then it may be that CCL has been incorrectly charged.

 BE – MDentry 

Checks that a maximum demand figure has been entered. 

 BE – UniqueInvoiceNumberValidator 

Checks if the invoice number is unique to that account.

Consumption Validation

Use the Validators listed in the General Bill Entry  -  Consumption Validation

PPU Validation

Use the Validators listed in the General Bill Entry  -  PPU Validation

VAT & Tax Validation

BE – ActivateNewTax 

Checks that Tax Entry tab is being used to input the VAT (and not the old Tax Summary tab) – particularly important if using the Accounts Link Activity.

BE - WaterVat

Charges Validation

BE – BillThisPeriod  

Ensures that the  Bill This Period cell is populated

BE – InvoicedvsCalc  

Checks the invoice cost with the calculated Sigma bill cost and will fail if out of the tolerance threshold.