Principles
Requirements
Prices use currency units, so these need to be defined before configuring prices (refer to the chapter on Configuring currency units).
What are prices?
In Watchdoc®, prices use a grid of numerical values comprising specific costs (monochrome print cost, colour print cost, paper cost, etc.) defined by an organisation, either to assess the effective cost of printing or to bill this cost to users.
If one is defined for assessment purposes, the price must be based on real cost.
If it is defined for billing purposes, then the price can comprise real costs plus a margin.
Definition of simple and complex prices
In Watchdoc®, you can determine simple or complex prices:
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The simple price can be made up from the following costs:
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A monochrome (A4 or A3) print cost,
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A colour (A4 or A3) print cost,
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A paper (A4 or A3) cost,
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or a combination of these costs.
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The complex price can be made up from the following elements:
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Basic costs (operation cost, cost per page with a possible differentiation between monochrome and colour pages and the option adding rounding),
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Type of media (applying a ratio to the price of two-side printing, taking a surface ratio into account as well as exceptions).
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Incremental pricing.
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Usage
Prices are assigned to the print queues and used in the quotas.