TrailheadAccesses & LandownersAccesses & Agreements
AA-07Season commitment

Bill A Season Payment Date

Two weeks before each payment date of a season agreement, Finance finds the bill ready in SettleWise for what is still owed, without typing it by hand.

Track

Accesses & Agreements

Phase

Season commitment

Starts with

Upcoming season payment date

Ends with

Bill ready in SettleWise

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AA-07
  1. AA-06Configure Season-Amount Readiness
  2. AA-07Bill A Season Payment Date
  3. OB-06Link A Landowner Bill To Its Agreement

The situation

A season agreement has one or two payment dates. Trailhead creates the bill for each date in SettleWise, due on that date, and Finance pays it there.

What starts it

A payment date of a season agreement is 14 days away or less.

How it unfolds

SystemOperationsAccounts
  1. 1

    Every morning, Trailhead looks for season payment dates in the next 14 days.

    System

    Dates that have already passed are left to Finance.

  2. 2

    Trailhead works out the share of the season amount due by that date.

    System

    With one payment date the bill is the whole season amount; with two dates each one is half.

  3. 3

    Trailhead subtracts what Finance already billed or paid for this agreement this season.

    System

    Bills and payouts linked to the agreement count, so the same payment is never billed twice. If nothing is left, no bill is created.

  4. 4

    Trailhead creates the bill in SettleWise for the landowner, due on the payment date.

    System

    This is the key moment: the bill is ready two weeks ahead, on the landowner access expense account, and linked to its agreement.

  5. 5

    Operations updates a payment date when the landowner agrees a new one.

    Operations

    An unpaid bill moves to the new due date; a bill that already has a payment stays as it is.

  6. 6

    Finance pays the bill in SettleWise when it is due.

    Accounts

    SettleWise sends its usual due-today alert; nobody is notified when the bill is created.

Who's involved

System

Creates each season bill two weeks ahead for what is still owed.

Operations

Keeps the payment dates agreed with the landowner up to date.

Accounts

Reviews and pays the bill in SettleWise.

What each person sees

Accounts

Season bills appearing in SettleWise two weeks before each payment date, already linked to their agreement

Why: Pay each landowner on time without typing the bill.

Operations

The agreement's payment dates and the access's Payments tab

Why: Keep the dates right so the bills follow them.

The rule to remember

Each season payment date produces one bill, two weeks ahead, for what is still owed that season; paying it stays in SettleWise.