Chapter 10

Using Flat Fee Billing Arrangements

In This Chapter

arrow Understanding the relationship between slips and flat fee arrangements

arrow Setting up a flat fee arrangement

arrow Exploring various types of flat fees

arrow Overriding flat fees with slip charges

The most typical billing arrangement is the slip-based arrangement, which displays the slips you record in Timeslips on your client’s bill. Effectively, when you use the slip-based billing arrangement, you bill for the time you spend. Chapter 9 discusses the slip-based arrangement and the ways in which you can change the billed values of slips that appear on the bill.

Sage Timeslips is a powerful software package and doesn’t limit you to billing clients based on slips. You can bill some clients based on slips and other clients by using a variety of flat fee and percent complete billing arrangements, as described in this chapter.

Slips and Flat Fee Arrangements

Before we dive into exploring various flat fee arrangements, it’s important to understand that entering slips and using a flat fee billing arrangement are not mutually exclusive activities. ...

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