The posting process in Costpoint Billing involves updating the general ledger, creating accounts receivable records, and inserting appropriate data into the billing history tables.

This topic should assist you in analyzing the process of posting bills and in understanding the tables involved. After you understand the posting process, you can more easily analyze posting problems and resolve setup issues.

There are two types of bills in Costpoint: transaction-based bills and manual bills. Costpoint calculates transaction-based bills using the transactions that are posted to the project. It calculates manual bills using a predetermined schedule, percent complete, units, or a variety of other methods. You can enter and modify manual bills on the Manage Manual Bills, Manage Project Product Bills, Manage Customer Product Bills, and Manage Milestone Percent Complete Bills screens. Only the transaction-based bills collect data in the OPEN_BILLING_DETL table and have transaction history stored in the BILL_INVC_HDR_HS and BILL_DETL_HIST tables. Manual bills have their own history tables and generally do not insert data into the OPEN_BILLING_DETL table. This topic outlines the general procedure that Costpoint uses to post billings. This topic covers details specific to manual or transaction-based bills as necessary.