Add a Fee Band to a Service Profile

After you create a service profile, you can use the Fee Bands grid to add the fee basis and define the associated fee bands.

The fee basis could be the chargeable cost or construction cost on the project, or it could represent something like the square footage or project deliverables. The fee bands provide a range for defining the complexity of a job. Typically, the difficulty of the job coincides with the number of fee bands -- the higher the fee band, the greater the difficulty.

If you are using the German Scale of Fees feature with Fee Estimates, the fee bands are pre-populated based on the German scale requirements. You cannot add fee bands to these system-defined service profiles.

To add a fee band to a service profile:

1. From the Vision Navigation menu, click Configuration > General > Fee Estimate Service Profiles.
2. Click the General tab.
3. Select a service profile.
4. On the toolbar of the Fee Bands grid, click Insert.
5. Enter the value related to the Fee Basis.

   Typically, this is the project's total construction cost. The fee basis cost is used to calculate the contractor's fee on the Fee Estimate tab of the Opportunity Info Center and in Project Fee Estimates in Accounting. If you are using multiple currencies, the chargeable cost applies the current currency's format.

6. For each Fee Band column that displays in the grid, enter a number for the minimum value. The number of fee band columns that displays is determined by the entry in the Fee Bands field (1-9).

   The minimum value for each fee band is used as the basis for the range of the fee band, and the maximum value is automatically dictated by the next fee band's minimum. For example, if Fee Band 1 from equals 10 and Fee Band 2 from equals 20, you can assume that the range for Fee Band 1 is 10 to 20. As you continue to build the fee bands for your service profile, you will finish by entering a cap for the last fee band in the to column. This is the absolute maximum for the fee band.

   As part of the fee calculation in the opportunity fee estimate or project fee estimate, you will be able to select a rate that falls within a fee band. The options include the minimum, maximum, average, ¼, ¾, or user-defined.

7. Click Save.