BL vs. BR What are the major differences?

BL vs. BR What are the major differences?

As a summary, BR allows for different billing options that are not only item – Quantity times Price to invoice.

BL allows for creating automatic recurring invoices by running a job that creates the invoices.

BR has jobs that will book the revenue recognition as defined for the contract

 

Feature / Module	BL (Billing)	BR (Billing & Revenue Recognition)
Using IC for item tracking	Y	N
Can bill ad-hoc Items	Y	N
Can Set up Products for billing	Y – in IC	Y
Can you Print an Invoice to send to the customer	Y	Performa only
Interfaces to AR	Y	Y
Requires Activity Module	N	Y
Auto Create Revenue Recognition entries	N	Y
Uses Allocations to create Revenue Recognition Entries	Y	N
Has an Invoice Entry form that looks like an invoice	Y	N
Create Recurring Invoices	Y for various intervals	N
Cost Plus Billing	Y – based on pricing	Y
Pass Thru Billing	Y	Y
Time and Materials Billing	Y	Y
Units of Production Billing	Y	Y
User-Defined Billing	Needs to have an item with Quantity times rate associated with invoiced lines	Y
Milestone Billing	Y- if there isn’t a system generated trigger for the milestone, any invoice item quantity*Price invoice can be created	Y – needs to be triggered by something