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MyCorbu provides the tools you need for tracking mileage. Each member of your organization logs in their mileage as it occurs. The Bookkeeping view of mileage includes dollar amounts to be reimbursed to the staff member as well as the dollar amount to be invoiced to the client, if appropriate. All of this is customizable through the use of Mileage Rates. You can find more about mileage in general in this blog post - Mileage. There are three Parts to using Mileage. The three Parts are listed here by the frequency with which you will use them - most to least. Each Part has its own section below.
PART 1 - ENTERING MILEAGESTOP! ONLY BEGIN ENTERING MILEAGE AFTER COMPLETING THE MILEAGE SETUP STEPS IN PART 3 Here is what each person sees when entering mileage. After clicking the Timekeeping Extras button on the Timesheet Page, you will see this form. This is the form for entering your mileage.
Your mileage entry is entered into Bookkeeping as an unpaid bill owed to the staff member making the entry. And if the Project for which the mileage was incurred is billable, then another mileage entry is entered into Bookkeeping as an un-invoiced amount awaiting invoicing. PART 2 - MANAGING MILEAGEThis Part addresses: 1 - reimbursement of staff for mileage and 2 - invoicing clients for mileage. 1 - MANAGING REIMBURSEMENT OF MILEAGE TO STAFF When you reimburse your staff periodically for the mileage that they have driven, you can find all the information you need in the Managing Mileage Reimbursements table. Navigate to the Bookkeeping page, then Tools page, and click the button labeled “Mileage Entries”. On the page that opens, there are two tables. The top table shows all the mileage entries made by your organization for which reimbursement is needed. This table of mileage entries is grouped by staff member.
Updating these records updates your Bookkeeping. These updated records no longer appear in your Payables. 2 - MANAGING INVOICING OF CLIENTS FOR MILEAGE Monthly, when you are preparing invoices for clients, you can find all the information you need in the Mileage Invoicing Management table for preparing the reimbursable expense portion of the invoices for the mileage that has been driven on behalf of the project. As described above, navigate to the Bookkeeping page, then Tools, and click the button labeled “Mileage Entries”. On the page that opens, scroll down to the second table where you will see your mileage records grouped by client / project.
When the invoice is paid, update your records in the Receivables table, which is where all your invoices are shown. PART 3 - MILEAGE SETUPHere is where you find Mileage when performing the Mileage Rate Setup. From the Bookkeeping page, and then the Tools page, click the “Mileage Entries" button. On the page that opens, click the "Add Mileage RATE" button. These are the Steps for implementing Mileage in MyCorbu TIME. These first two Steps are critical to using Mileage successfully. If you skip these two Steps, your Mileage entries will be incomplete and require much more work to sort them out and to make them useable. STEP 1 - CREATE YOUR MILEAGE RATES Create the Mileage Rates that you will need. This blog article discusses the process and options to consider. The recommended format for the Mileage Rate Name is 'YYYYxMarkup Factor' so that the name tells you how the rate will work. This is a big help when choosing a rate to assign to a project. You will probably need at least three rates.
When you go here to add a mileage rate, you will see a form for adding Mileage Rates at the top. Scrolling down you will see a table of existing Mileage Rates, which can be made inactive when they are no longer needed. Below that is a table of ACTIVE Projects that use each Mileage Rate. TO ADD A NEW MILEAGE RATE Using the Form at the top of the page:
All of your organization’s Mileage Rates appear in the table below the form that you use for adding a Mileage Rate. NOTE: When a Mileage Rate will no longer be used, change the Mileage Rate to: ‘Active? = No’. Clicking in the 'Active?' column on the Mileage Rate you want to make inactive will open a pop-up allowing you to select ‘No’. Whenever a new situation arises, a change in IRS allowable rate or a special project requirement, always create a NEW Mileage Rate. EDITING AN EXISTING MILEAGE RATE WILL CHANGE ALL YOUR EXISTING MILEAGE ENTRIES THAT USE THAT RATE. ALWAYS CREATE A NEW MILEAGE RATE INSTEAD. STEP 2 - ADD THE APPROPRIATE MILEAGE RATE TO EVERY PROJECT After adding your standard mileage rates, go through your active projects one by one and update them with the appropriate Mileage Rate. This is where the Rate Name format comes in handy! Scrolling down below the Mileage Rates table reveals a table of all your projects. Your projects will be grouped by the Mileage Rate that they use - after you assign a Rate. Select a project and click 'edit'. The form below opens.
One by one, edit your projects in this table. The next time that you add a new project to MyCorbu, you will be able to add its Mileage Rate as part of that project setup process. There won’t be a need to return to this Step again. Revised: April 5, 2018 Updated: January 26, 2021 Comments are closed.
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