Project Command Center window (Project Info tab)

Required. The name for the project or phase. It appears on invoices. Be sure not to use any slashes / \ in the name.

The identifier for the project or phase. It can appear in reports and selection lists.

Multi-company only.

Required. The company responsible for the project

Only applies if your company is defining departments in Ajera. It is the department that owns the project.

The project type, which is used to sort and group information on reports. For example, your company may group governmental and private sector projects separately for companywide reporting.

The manager of the project or phase

The principal responsible for the project or phase

Your company's marketing representative for the project or phase

unavailable in ajeraCore

Appears when you click a production phaseTerm used to differentiate a billable work-related phase from a phase that represents business development effort.in the project tree.

It links the production phase to the Business Development phase to track your BD efforts through reports and inquiries.

The location of the project or phase

Appears only if you selected to use wage rate tables on the Company > Preferences > Payroll tab

The wage rate table to use for employees whose rate of pay is based on the work they are performing (their employee type). Ajera uses the wage rate table to retrieve pay rates when you enter time or add resources to budgets. 

unavailable in ajeraCore unless you have the Payroll add-on

Appears only if you selected to use certified payroll on the Company > Preferences > Payroll tab

Certified payroll tracks employee hours for government projects, prevailing wage projects, or any other contracts requiring certified reports. Certified payroll reporting is available only if you process payroll in-house. Ajera does not calculate the complete payroll detail if you use a payroll service (outsource payroll).

The status of the project or phase, as follows:

Marketing (unavailable in ajeraCore)

You want to track BD efforts and win rates, and project your pipeline. Time and expenses can be entered to the project or phase. The client cannot be invoiced.

Preliminary

The project is not ready for billing. Time and expenses can be entered to the project but the client cannot be invoiced.

Active

The project is active. Time and expenses can be entered to the project. The client can be invoiced. Ajera enters a status of Active until you change it. 

Hold

Time and expenses cannot be entered to the project. The client cannot be invoiced.

Work hold

Time and expenses cannot be entered to the project. The client can be invoiced.

Billing Hold

Time and expenses can be entered to the project. The client cannot be invoiced.

Closed

The project is complete, but you still want to include it in reports.

The next two fields appear only if you selected the Company > Preferences > Payroll tab> Allow state taxes from multiple states on one paycheck check box.

Enter a state if you want Ajera to withhold state tax when employees enter time to this project (or phase).

If you do not enter a state for a phase, Ajera uses the state you entered for the project if you entered one.

If you do not enter a state for the project, when you process payroll, Ajera uses the state you entered for the employee in the Setup > Employees > Payroll Taxes tab > Default Work State field.

The name of the project

The name of the client who would be hiring your firm for the project

The Status field indicates if you worked with this client in the past.

The name of the company paying for the project. For example, the owner may be the developer.

The Status field indicates if you worked with this owner in the past.

The prime or primary on the project. For example, if your company is an engineering firm, the AE of the project may be an architectural firm.

The Status field indicates if you worked with this AE firm in the past.

The type of project, such as residential or a medical facility

If tracking projects by priority, the priority of the project ranked as low, medium, or high. The priority is useful for reporting purposes or quickly sorting and grouping projects by priority.

The percent probability that your firm can win the project

A description of the work you are to perform on the project

Costs:

The total cost of the project for the owner. It includes permits, fees, construction, design, furnishings, and so on.

The total construction cost of the project

Fees:

The contract amount for the project

The amount of fees charged by subconsultants you are using on the project

The current status of the marketing stage. You can only assign one stage a status of In Progress at a time.

The stage, or particular step, in the lifecycle of the BD project

The date when the marketing stage reaches completion

The date when the marketing stage begins

The date when the marketing stage is complete

Any notes about the marketing stage

The reason that you won, lost, or declined a project

If the names of stages were changed during this session, click this button to see the new stage names.

Identifies a contact for the project. To enter a new contact, after clicking , click the New button. 

Required when setting up a project

Billing type is the way the client is billed according to the contract.

Billing types are:

Time & expense

You bill the client for actual hours worked and expenses incurred on the project. You can use this type if you bill the client with a billing rate or a markup of cost.

Ajera allows your billing to exceed the contract amount. However, it alerts you by highlighting in red the Invoice Amount field on the Client Invoice List window.

It also prints Maximum Exceededon the draft invoice. You can adjust the invoice amount, if needed.

Fixed fee

You charge the client a fixed amount for the project and bill a fixed amount on each invoice.

Percent complete

You charge the client a fixed amount for the project. You bill a percent of the total amount based on the amount of the project that is complete.

Unit price

You charge the client a price per each unit completed, such as square feet.

Percent of construction cost

You charge the client for the actual or estimated cost of construction for the project.

Nonbillable

You do not charge the client for the project. Use this billing type to track project-related time and expenses that you cannot invoice to the client. You can set up a nonbillable phase so that you can enter charges against the project which contribute to the total cost but cannot be billed.

Marketing

You track the marketing cost for the project. Use this billing type to track time and expenses related to winning the project. You can enter and track time and expenses, but the client cannot be invoiced. You can change this billing type to one of the billable types after the project is won, if the contract allows you to recover any of these costs.

Overhead

You can optionally set up an overhead project to track your internal expenses. You can enter and track time and expenses, but no client is associated with the project and no invoice is produced.

Adjustment

Appears only when working with an adjustment phase

You increase or decrease an invoice amount by adding an invoice adjustment. When you add an adjustment, Ajera automatically assigns it a billing type of Adjustment, which cannot be changed.

Required when setting up a project with a billable billing type

The rate table is the pricing structure for the project or phase.

If you change the rate table for the project and want the existing WIP entries to use the new rates, you must recalculate the billing rates on the client invoices.

Select if notes are required on timesheets for this project.

If selected, this check box is also automatically selected for all phases in the project. You can clear the check box for individual projects or phases, if needed.

Sales Tax:

Select this check box if any of the labor or expenses for this project or phase are subject to sales tax.

If sales tax applies to the project or phase, this field contains the tax code that applies to the project.

If sales tax applies to the project or phase, this field contains the sales tax rate as a percent. For example, enter 6 for 6%.

Bill as Time & Expense:

These fields only appear for fee-basedThe project or phase is contracted to bill for the value of the work performed, not for the actual time and expenses expended. These projects or phases are identified with a billing type of Fixed Fee, Percent Complete, Unit Price, or Percent of Construction Cost. billing types.

If the fee on a contract does not include labor, expense, or consultant fees, but you want to bill them as time and expense, select these check boxes.

For example, a fixed fee on a contract includes labor and consultant fees. However, in addition to the fixed fee, you are also billing expenses as time and expense, so you select the Expense check box.

Appears only for phases.

Select this check box to designate a phase as a billing groupA grouping of phases within a project used to summarize or subtotal those phases on a client invoice and on project reports. so as to group phases together on an invoice.

Select this check box to summarize (subtotal) the phases of a project or billing group on an invoice.

Each check box appears only if you added an invoice adjustment with that activity type (labor, expense, or consultant) to the invoice group or project.

If you added any invoice adjustments based on the percent of the billed amount for an activity type (labor, expense, or consultant), and you do not want Ajera to include the amount of this phase in calculating the percent for those adjustments, select the appropriate check box.

Invoice adjustment options - These options appear only if you are viewing an invoice adjustment phase:

Identifies the adjustment as a labor, expense, or consultant

The way you want to adjust the invoice, either with a flat amount or percent. A percent reflects the percent of the billed amount for an activity type (Labor, Expense, or Consultant).

The amount or percent of the adjustment

If you are entering a flat amount and want to decrease the invoice amount with this adjustment, enter a negative amount.

The general ledger account where you want Ajera to make entries for the adjustment

Required when setting up a project with a billable billing type

This is the client who is invoiced for services.

Required when setting up a project with a billable billing type

This is a set of options that determines the look and content of the client invoice.

The person responsible for billing on this project

The contact for the client that handles billing issues on this project

If the billing contact has an address on record, that address prints on the invoice. Otherwise, the client's address prints on the invoice.

Enter text that you want to print on the invoice below the client mailing address. You can reenter header text from the Company > Preferences window by right-clicking and selecting Refresh header text. (If you use multi-company, the header text is from the Company > Companies window.)

If you entered header text in the Company > Preferences > Billing tab > Invoice Header Text field, that text appears in this field and prints on client invoices for all projects, unless you change it here for this project. (If you use multi-company, the header text is on the Billing/Payroll tab of the Company > Companies window.)

You can also change header text for a specific invoice in the Manage > Client Invoices > Text & Amounts tab > Header field.

If you do not want the text to wrap to the second line on the invoice, press the Enter key where you want the first line to end.

Enter text that prints on only the last page of the invoice. You may choose to use it to print a holiday greeting or contract information. There is no length limit. You can reenter footer text from the Company > Preferences window by right-clicking and selecting Refresh footer text. (If you use multi-company, the footer text is from the Company > Companies window.)

If you entered footer text in the Company > Preferences > Billing tab > Invoice Footer Text field, that text appears in this field and prints on client invoices for all projects, unless you change it here for this project. (If you use multi-company, the footer text is on the Billing/Payroll tab of the Company > Companies window.)

You can also change footer text for a specific invoice in the Manage > Client Invoices > Text & Amounts tab > Footer field.

The description of work to be performed for the project

The phase name, which prints on the invoice. It automatically contains the name of the phase unless you change it.

In the Print Project box on the Invoice Summary, Fee Type, and Time & Expense tabs of the Invoice Format window, you can choose to print the billing description in bold or uppercase, and to include the phase ID.

Invoice text:

Text that prints on the invoice under the particular phase name

Text that prints on the invoice under the labor, expenses, or consultants heading for each phase

The contact name

Labor:

The total hours worked to-date on this phase. Used for project-to-date cost and spent hours on management reports. Included in the Hours Actual column of the Project List

The total cost amount for labor to-date for this phase. Used for project-to-date cost on management reports. If you use DPE and overhead to mark up labor cost, enter the total of the cost, DPE, and overhead.

The total spent amount for labor to-date for this phase. Used for project-to-date spent amount on management reports

The total billed amount for labor to-date for this phase. Used for project-to-date billed amount on management reports

Expense:

The total cost amount for expenses to-date for this phase. Used for project-to-date cost on management reports

The total spent amount for expenses to-date for this phase. Used for project-to-date spent amount on management reports

The total billed amount for expenses to-date for this phase. Used for project-to-date billed amount on management reports

Consultant:

The total cost amount to-date for consultants for this phase. Used for project-to-date cost on management reports

The total spent amount for consultants to-date for this phase. Used for project-to-date spent amount on management reports

The total billed amount for consultants to-date for this phase. Used for project-to-date billed amount on management reports

Unit Price:

Indicate if users of the project can change the work breakdown structure as represented in the project tree on the left of the window

If you plan to select the Never option, first enter all your phases, invoice groups, and billing groups, as explained in the remainder of these instructions. Otherwise, you will also be unable to make changes unless you first change this option, which you can do at any time.

Indicate if users of the project can change the project's resources

If you plan to select the Never option, first enter all your phases, invoice groups, and billing groups. You then enter resources on the Manage tab when budgeting the project.

Indicate if users of the project can change the project's tasks

If you plan to select the Never option, first enter all your phases, resources, invoice groups, and billing groups, as explained in the remainder of these instructions. You then enter tasks on the Manage tab when budgeting the project.

The identifier for the phase

The status of the project or phase

Multi-company only.

Required - The company responsible for the project

unavailable in ajeraCore unless you have the Departments add-on

Only applies if your company is defining departments in Ajera. It is the department that owns the project.

The project type, which is used to sort and group information on reports. For example, your company may group governmental and private sector projects separately for companywide reporting.

The manager of the project or phase

The way the client is billed according to the contract

The pricing structure for the project or phase

If selected, it indicates that the phase is a billing groupA grouping of phases within a project used to summarize or subtotal those phases on a client invoice and on project reports.

If selected, it indicates that you are summarizing the phases of a project or billing group on an invoice.