Adding Labour to a Service Estimate

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Adding Labour to a Service Estimate

Labour is normally collected and posted to an estimate via the material quantity x the labour content for that item (i.e. Quantity x Lab Cont entered on the Add Items to Estimate screen). However, you may want to post labour directly to an estimate for additional work, supervision or non-material related work.

To add labour directly to a service estimate:

Display the Estimate Information screen for the estimate you want to add labour to.

Refer to "Maintaining the Service Estimate Header".

Select the Accept button or press F2 to proceed.

Micronet displays the Estimate Transaction Processing screen.

Select EDIT | LABOUR.

Technical Tip

By default, the Estimate Transaction Processing screen is set to EDIT | ITEM so you add or edit materials for an estimate (refer to "Adding Materials to a Service Estimate" ). When you select this menu option, EDIT | LABOUR is selected so you can add or edit labour. You can also add or edit text for a job (refer to "Adding Text to a Service Estimate").

If you want to:

add a labour line to the estimate, select the Add button
insert a labour line in the estimate, select the line below where you want the line inserted then select the Insert button
delete a labour line from the estimate, select the line then select the Delete button
edit a labour line, double click on a line or select a line then press Enter.

If you selected to add, insert or edit a labour line, Micronet displays the Add Labour to Estimate screen.

Complete the following fields:

	Field	Value
	Employee No	Enter the employee ID for this entry. You can also press Tab or Enter to select an employee. Micronet displays the employee name/description on the following line. This line can be overwritten if you want to store free text information relating to this transaction posting. Text entered here is stored and can be displayed on job inquiries, the job card and/or reports.
	Operation	Micronet displays the employee's default operation. You can change this if required by overwriting the displayed operation, or by deleting the displayed operation and pressing Tab or Enter to select a different operation.
	Stage	Micronet displays the default stage for this estimate as set in the Department master file (refer to "Adding a New Department"). Normally this would be set to 1. You can delete this and enter another stage if required. You can also press Tab or Enter to select a stage.

Reference

If your estimate has multiple stages and you haven't created them yet, refer to "Estimate Transaction Processing - Stages - Variations and Stages".

	Date	Enter or select the date on which the employee will perform the work.
	Actual Hours	Enter a value for the actual hours the employee is estimated to work.
	Bill Hours	Enter the estimated billable hours for the employee (i.e. that you want to charge your customer for). This figure can be higher or lower than the Actual Hours entered above and is multiplied by the Unit Charge shown below to determine the Line Total.
	Overtime Rate	Select a rate to charge the customer – for example: Normal Time and a Half Double Public Holiday. Rates are setup in your MJC company configuration.
	Unit Charge	Micronet displays the unit charge as set on the Operation selected for the labour line. You can overwrite this if required.
	Line Total	Micronet calculates and displays Bill Hours x Unit Charge.

Optionally, you can perform any of the following edits or actions on the Add Labour to Estimate screen if required:

enter user defined questions - refer to "Add Labour to Estimate - User Q"
perform an inquiry on the employee - refer to "Add Labour to Estimate - Inquiry".

When you have finished, select the Accept button.

If you added labour to the estimate, Micronet redisplays the Add Labour to Estimate screen so you can post further labour if required.

When you have finished posting labour to the estimate, select the Cancel button.

Micronet redisplays the Estimate Transaction Processing screen, showing the items, text and labour posted to the estimate.

Continue processing the estimate by completing the steps required in the "Service Estimates Overview".