RCR Schedule [U0236]

LeasePak menu: Maintenance, RCR Schedule [U0236]

Corresponding End of Period process: Assessments Receivable Aging, Cycle Accruals
Related to
: Application [U0801], New Lease [U0101], Rebook [U0116], Lease Extension [U0108], Master Financial [U0202]

Allows management of recurring and other assessment charges for leases. This comes as a part of the Extended Recurring Charges module and offers enhanced and more flexible way for managing assessments.

RCR Schedule Definition

The Classic Approach

Definition of recurring changes for assessments is a part of the lease application entry; lease booking, rebooking or extension process and users define the recurring charges payment schedule through their user interfaces.

The user interfaces for the processes, mentioned earlier, have a grid section for entry of recurring assessments and their payment schedule, see figure below.

The RCR Payment Schedule section.

The user specifies the date range, amount, broker identifier and the vendor identifier for the assessments. The user is limited to only one schedule of recurring charges for a defined period of time and with a single assessment payment amount. Moreover, recurring charges will always be assessed along with the lease payment with no capability to selective invoices for recurring charges.

The New Approach with Extended Recurring Charges Module

The Extended Recurring Charges module separates the recurring charges by introducing its own separate update RCR Schedule [U0236]. The update allows for definition of recurring charges for an application, lease and lease extension. Automatic lease extension is also supported by RCR Schedule [U0236]. Recurring charge schedules will still be reliant upon the main lease or application payment schedule. In this way, a recurring charge assessment takes place only when a lease payment assessment also occurs.

The recurring charges payment schedule must match with the payment schedule of the lease or application. If not, LeasePak will not allow the definition of such a schedule. Similarly, if the payment schedule of an application or a lease is altered, LeasePak will warn the user that they need to adjust recurring charge payment schedule to match accordingly.

A lease should not have recurring charges due during the period when there is no rent due. If there is a scheduled recurring charge due and there is no rent payment due during that period, such a lease will be out of sync and no recurring charge assessment will take place.

Converting Existing Leases

Running leases that were booked prior to this enhancement will continue to work normally, however, their payment schedules for recurring charges will no longer be modifiable. The recurring charges payment schedules for such leases may only be accessible for viewing through reports and accruals will assess the charges as usual.

If users may want to modify the recurring charge schedule for existing leases, they may do so by using RCR Schedule [U0236] to convert the lease to use flexible recurring payment schedules. The conversion will be irreversible and LeasePak does not retain the old schedules. There are two ways for conversion:

  1. Use RCR Schedule [U0236] to add new recurring charges schedule to the lease. This will convert the lease to use the new recurring charges schedule for its remaining term. For the payments prior to the conversion, LeasePak will automatically insert a SKIP term that will be unchangeable.
  2. Prior to running RCR Schedule [U0236], perform accrual and payment reversals. Doing so will convert the lease to a new RCR Schedule Lease and will also allow the users to freely define any flexible RCR schedule for all its term.

General Functions

The graphical user interfaces of RCR Schedule [U0236] for adding, modifying or deleting recurring payment schedules for applications, running leases and automatic lease extensions are same except for their titles and captions. The following sections provide instructions on the use of common operations such as, selection, addition, modification and deletion of a recurring payment schedule. The instructions and screenshots here are presented with reference to an application, however, the same also apply for lease and automatic lease extension cases.

RCR Selection

In most of the cases, you will be defining the recurring payments schedule while creating or defining an application. A recurring schedule relies on the payment schedule of the application. It is, therefore, important that an application should have its payment schedule defined before defining its recurring charges schedule. The application term and a valid portfolio number are also important and required in order to define a recurring payment schedule. In case the user misses any one or all of these requirements, LeasePak will prompt them to meet these requirements when going for the recurring payments schedule definition.

On the LeasePak main menu, click Updates, point to Maintenance [U02] and then click RCR Schedule [U0236].

RCR Schedule

From the RCR Schedule dialog, select Application RCR Schedule and click OK. This will show all the supported functions for applications.

The RCR Schedule dialog showing application functions.

Adding a RCR Schedule

From the RCR Schedule dialog, select Add and click OK.

Add RCR Schedule dialog

In the Application field, enter the application number to add the schedule for.

Assessment Selection

From the Recurring Charges list, select the assessment type to set the payment schedule for it and click OK.

Recurring Charges Payment Schedule

Using the Remaining Term section, you define the payment schedule for the selected assessment. The payment schedule of the selected assessment must go with the payment schedule of the application payment schedule. To view the payment schedule for the selected application, click the arrow icon View Payment Schedule icon to open it in a separate dialog.

Field Description

bullet Bundle (Y/N)
(Optional)
Type 'Y' to bundle (include) the recurring charge with the rental payment amount, or type 'N' to list it separately. This affects the appearance of invoice scratch files only; it does not change payment application, accounting, or amounts stored in data (recurring charges are still separate for these). Values for this field will default either from portfolio-level settings in the Portfolio [U0212] update, or from the default application (if any).
bulletRemaining Schedule
(Read-Only)
Shows the serial order for the payment schedule entries in the grid.
bulletStart Date
(Read-Only)
Based on the payment entries and the values entered for the Number and Frequency fields, LeasePak calculates the starting date and displays it here.
bulletEnd Date
(Read-Only)
Based on the values entered for the Number and Frequency fields, LeasePak calculates the ending date and displays it here.
bulletNumber
(Mandatory)
Enter the number of payments of a given amount to be made. Enter 999 to repeat charges every month for a month to month lease.
bulletFrequency
(Mandatory)
Select from the list, the frequency of payments.
bulletAmount
(Mandatory)
Enter the payment amount. Do not include use tax. LeasePak automatically calculates use tax amount at time of accrual.

Click OK to save schedule and close the dialog.

Changing a RCR Schedule

From the RCR Schedule dialog, select Change and click OK.

Change RCR Schedule dialog

In the Application field, enter the application number to add the schedule for.

Assessment Selection

From the Recurring Charges list, select the assessment type to set the payment schedule for it and click OK.

Recurring Charges Payment Schedule

Field Description

Please refer to the Field Descriptions sections provided earlier in this document or click here to jump to that location.

Deleting a RCR Schedule

From the RCR Schedule dialog, select Delete and click OK.

Delete RCR Schedule dialog

In the Application field, enter the application number to add the schedule for.

Assessment Selection

From the Recurring Charges list, select the assessment type to set the payment schedule for it and click OK.

Delete RCR Payment Schedule Confirmation dialog

In the Okay to delete Recurring Charges? (Y/N) field, type "Y" and click OK. A message box will appear asking you to confirm your action.

Delete RCR confirmation message

Click OK to continue deleting the payment schedule for the selected assessment, or click Cancel to abort.

Important Considerations

All (Applications, Leases, Auto Lease Extensions)

Adding a Recurring Charges Payment Schedule

Changing a Recurring Charges Payment Schedule

Deleting a Recurring Charges Payment Schedule

Applications

Adding an Application Payment Schedule

When adding a recurring payments schedule to a pending application, the selected application must:

Auto Lease Extensions

Adding an Auto Lease Extension Payment Schedule