APL Billvue System (Contents, Download)

APL Billvue is a fully integrated billing system that part of the APL Infodex system. It enables the user to control when and how market values used in billing are calculated; including complex and interrelated fee calculations. It can accommodate an array of bill adjustments and produces standard and easily customized reports and bill formats.

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APL Billvue is a component in the modular APL system. With it, a firm can design a complete billing process to meet a wide variety of needs. As with most APL functions, users may schedule various Billvue functions to run periodically for designated groups of accounts, minimizing manual intervention.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: About This User Guide
  • 1.1 What is APL?
  • 1.2 What is APL Billvue?
  • 1.3 Conventions used in this guide
  • 1.4 Using the keyboard
    • Menu option selections
    • General function keys
    • Edit screen function keys
  • 1.5 Searching database records
  • 1.6 Other recommended user guides

• Chapter 2: Basic Fee Calculations
  • 2.1 Viewing or Updating a Fee Schedule

• Chapter 3: Editing Screen
  • 3.1 Editing Account Information Globally (SCREENBILDEF)
    • Editing Billing Fields on the Account Level
    • Billing Fields Account Editor (BILLEDIT)
    • Editing Billing Fields Using Quick Edit (QKEDIT)
    • 3.2 Establishing and Editing Billing Classes (SCREENFEESECT)
  • 3.3 Adding or Removing Data in the Billing Template (SCREENTEMPLATE)

• Chapter 4: Billing Invoice Screens
  • Posting Values by Class (BILLSECT)

• Chapter 5: Billing Reports
  • 5.1 Billing Fields Audit report
  • 5.2 Fee Schedule /Account Cross Reference Fee
  • 5.3 Invoice Summary Report #2 (DOWNBILLFEE)

• Chapter 6: Examples: The Billing Cycle
  • 6.1 Fee Schedule Scenarios
  • 6.2 Adding a Fee Schedule
  • 6.3 Updating the Billing fields
  • 6.4 Market Values
    • Posting the Market Value
    • Viewing the Market Values
  • 6.5 Generating Charges
  • 6.6 Generating temporary and permanent invoices
    • Generating a bill
    • Running the Invoice Summary report