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Customer User Budgets allows allow admin staff to set up and maintain budget limits for against individual users for a set period. User budgets override any default customer level budgets that may have been set. 


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Set up and maintain Customer budgets for Users.

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Once Customer User Budgets is enabled, budget limits can be set against a Customer users. There are two ways of doing this: (i) manually set a budget for a particular user or , and (ii) bulk import them for multiple users. 

i. Manually Set a Budget for a User

To manually set a budget for a user,

  1. Navigate to UsersWebsite Users.

  2. Use the User Search tool to find a particular user.

  3. Click Edit for the User.

  4. In the Customer Details section, click the Budget button for the Customer Account you want to add the budget limit to. (Note - there may only be one Customer account.)
     

  5. In the 'User Budget Management' popup, enter budget limit details. Budgets are set to a period defined here. Once the period has finished, the system will reset the budget (until it is deleted).  

    Budget Amount: enter the budget amount for the period
    Used Budget: display field only (amount from the set budget used up is automatically calculated)  
    Budget Period: select from the dropdown list
    Budget Period End Date: enter the end date for the first period. The Budget will be reset after this date.
    Notification Email: enter the user's email address if budget notification emails ('budget remaining' and 'budget expiring soon') are to be scheduled
    Warning Email Frequency: select how frequently the notification emails are to be sent

  6. To save this budget, click the Update Budget button. 

ii. Bulk Import (and Export) User Budgets

To use the bulk import function, a valid CSV file must be prepared first.

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  • The first row should contain the field headers that are required:
    CustomerCode, EmailAddress, BudgetAmount, BudgetPeriod, BudgetPeriodEndDate, NotificationEmailAddress, EmailFrequency

  • BudgetPeriod and EmailFrequency fields have special codes that must be used:

    BudgetPeriod: Y=Annually, HY=Biannually, M=Monthly, Q=Quarterly, F=Fortnightly, W=Weekly
    EmailFrequency: Y=Annually, HY=Biannually, M=Monthly, Q=Quarterly, F=Fortnightly, W=Weekly, D=Daily
    BudgetPeriodEndDate format: mm/dd/yy

Click on the Import button for a   


To set budgets for multiple users, 

  1. Navigate to UsersWebsite Users.

  2. Hover over Options at the top right corner of the screen to display the 'Export' and 'Import' functions
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