Property Management Contracts

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We are a property management company, manging about 1500 units in 18 RM properties and 4 commercial buildings in PM. We need a little help managing our contracts. For example, we signed a contract for roofing work for a property with several buildings. The contractor will bill us after each building is complete, creating separage invoices matching up to the contracted amount. Generally there is a down payment that we pay off the contract, reducing the contract amount.

Our current process is this: We receive a contract and enter the full contract amount as an invoice in AP. When invoices come in, they are sometimes directed to the AP person to match up with the contract but not always. Other times, they are scanned in as an invoice and routed through our TimberScan system for appropriate approvals, thus creating a duplicate invoice. We are then running into open contract (as invoices) in the system, even though the work is done and paid. 

Does anyone have a trick to keeping track of contracts? We do have the Contracts, AR and Billing modules, would we be able to use any of these?

Thanks for your help!

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    Jess,

    If I understand your issue correctly, I do not think the revenue applications (CN, AR, BL) would be helpful in your situation.

    You may be able to utilize Commitments within Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate accessed through Job Cost or Project Management.

    You can use commitments as a contract with a vendor. You can set up purchase orders and subcontracts to enter contractual costs associated with them. Once in a committed status, Accounts Payable invoice distributions can be entered to that commitment and based on your AP Settings can stop you from invoicing beyond the committed value.

    If you decide to use commitments, I might suggest that you contact your business partner to help define the best workflow for your company. For more information on use of commitments, I would suggest reviewing the Job Cost help topics.

    The Sage MyAssistant product may be another option that I think could be helpful and could also be used in other aspects of your business. Sage MyAssistant is a proactive reporting tool integrated with Sage 300 CRE and actively searches for specific circumstances. You could certainly use Sage MyAssistant to create a daily task that would compare the invoices of you vendor and could alert the correct people in your company that there is an open contract (invoice) when there should not be one.

    For more information on Sage MyAssistant, you can search for KBMYA once logged onto the Knowledgebase at https://support.na.sage.com.

    There are also other Sage City forum topics related to MyAssistant. This is a link to the topics tagged with MyAssistant.

    http://sagecity.na.sage.com/support_communities/sage_construction_and_real_estate/f/tags/MyAssistant/default.aspx

     

    Casey Knapp

    Senior Customer Support Analyst, Sage Construction and Real Estate

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    Jess,

    If I understand your issue correctly, I do not think the revenue applications (CN, AR, BL) would be helpful in your situation.

    You may be able to utilize Commitments within Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate accessed through Job Cost or Project Management.

    You can use commitments as a contract with a vendor. You can set up purchase orders and subcontracts to enter contractual costs associated with them. Once in a committed status, Accounts Payable invoice distributions can be entered to that commitment and based on your AP Settings can stop you from invoicing beyond the committed value.

    If you decide to use commitments, I might suggest that you contact your business partner to help define the best workflow for your company. For more information on use of commitments, I would suggest reviewing the Job Cost help topics.

    The Sage MyAssistant product may be another option that I think could be helpful and could also be used in other aspects of your business. Sage MyAssistant is a proactive reporting tool integrated with Sage 300 CRE and actively searches for specific circumstances. You could certainly use Sage MyAssistant to create a daily task that would compare the invoices of you vendor and could alert the correct people in your company that there is an open contract (invoice) when there should not be one.

    For more information on Sage MyAssistant, you can search for KBMYA once logged onto the Knowledgebase at https://support.na.sage.com.

    There are also other Sage City forum topics related to MyAssistant. This is a link to the topics tagged with MyAssistant.

    http://sagecity.na.sage.com/support_communities/sage_construction_and_real_estate/f/tags/MyAssistant/default.aspx

     

    Casey Knapp

    Senior Customer Support Analyst, Sage Construction and Real Estate

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