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The customer record contains information about the customers for whom you perform maintenance or repair work. Your customers may be other departments, cost centers, owner-operators, other companies, or any other entity that is billed for work completed. Setting up the customer file allows markups to be applied for services rendered or items sold.

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As items are posted to work orders or fuel transactions are input, any applicable markups set in the customer records are applied and added to the work orders and fuel transactions.

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Adding a Customer

The customer record consists of four tabs:

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The screen will now display the information entered for the creation of the file and give access to the other tabs for data entry

General Tab

Add shipping and billing address information into these panels by clicking into a field, entering the information, and clicking the checkmark to save the entered data

Markups Tab

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The Overhead Rate Flag must be set to customer for these to apply.

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  • Methods are as follows:

    • Add To - add an additional dollar amount

    • Flat Price - apply a flat price per gallon

    • Percent - a flat markup percentage can be applied to the per gallon price

Accounts Tab

Additional account codes can be entered for the various items. The use of account codes is purely for company benefit and these are not used by RTA in any way

Attachments Tab

Attachments can be added to the customer file. Refer to Attachments if assistance is needed in using this feature.

Changing a Customer

To change a customer record, do the following:

  1. Click on the Organization area in the menu

  2. Click on Customers

  3. Locate and click on the customer to be edited

  4. Navigate to any editable field in the file

  5. Click in the field and edit or add the value desired

  6. Click the check mark while in the edited field to save the changes

Deleting a Customer

To delete a customer record, do the following:

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