Background
A Billing Period defines the billing cycle used by a project's team and payment application contacts on Procore's payment applications and progress billings. In addition to defining the frequency of the billing cycle (for example, monthly or weekly), a billing period also defines the billing cycle's start/end date and the due date for the payment application or progress billing.
Examples
Common billing periods include:
- Monthly
Examples of common monthly billing periods are below:
- Starts on the 1st day of a month and ends on the 30th of the same month.
- Starts on the 15th of one month and ends on the 14th of the following month.
- Weekly
Examples of common weekly billing periods are below:
- Starts on Sunday of this week and ends on Saturday of this week.
Things to Consider
- Required User Permissions:
- 'Admin' level permissions on the project's Commitments tool
Notes
- Access permissions to the Payment applications & Progress Billings tools are governed by the permissions set on the Commitments and/or Client Contracts, Funding or Main Contracts tool. Procore tool names vary, depending on the language or point-of-view dictionary configured in Procore. See What dictionaries and languages are available in the Procore web application?
- If you are a collaborator (for example, an payment application contact employed by a company performing work on a project managed in Procore, your ability to perform invoice-related tasks is determined by the Procore company account holder. Settings that the account holder may choose to provide to you include:
- A Procore User account.
- Access permissions to the project's Commitments and/or Client Contracts, Funding or Main Contracts tool.
- Membership on the 'Private' list of a specific contract or funding
- Designated as an 'Invoice Contact' on the contract or funding.
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Additional Information:
- You can only create billing periods in the project's Payment applications tool. You cannot create billing periods at the company level.
- You can only have one (1) billing period in the 'Open' status at a time.
- When you create a new billing period, Procore automatically sets its status to 'Open.' The previous billing period's status is automatically set to 'Closed.'
- For projects using the Direct Costs tool, a billing period also determines which direct costs to include on a payment application.
- To successfully Compile Payment application Backups, the billing period(s) that correspond to the selected payment application(s) must exist. To learn more, see Create Automatic Billing Periods and Create Manual Billing Periods.
Steps
- Navigate to the project's Payment applications or Progress Billings tool.
- Optional: Click the Billing Periods tab.
- Click the Create Billing Period button.
- In the 'Set Up Billing Period' dialogue box, click Automatic.
- Under 'Automatic', configure the billing period's settings as follows:
- Frequency
- Monthly. Select this option then choose the date you want the billing period to start.
- Weekly. Select this option then choose the date you want the billing period to start.
- Never. Select this option to never create an automatic billing period.
Tip
When would I choose the 'Never' option? If you have previously configured Procore to automatically create new billing periods, you can cancel that process at a later time by clicking Create Billing Period and selecting the 'Never' option in the Automatic tab as described above. This overrides the tool's previous billing period creation settings and stops Procore from creating new ones.
- Start Date. Select the date of each month you want the billing period to start.
Note
- To create automatic billing periods that occur after your selected 'Start Date', you must manually create the first billing period on your project with the Payment applications tool. See Create Manual Billing Periods.
- Keep in mind that Procore creates automatic billing periods for future periods on the future period's start date. For example, if you want to automatically create billing periods that start on the first of the month, Procore automatically creates the new billing period on the first of each month.
- End Date. Select the date of each month you want the billing period to end.
- Due Date. Select the date of each month you want the payment application to be due.
- Click Save.
Tip
What's the next step? After creating a billing period, choose one of these options to create a payment application:
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