Best Practice for adding Parking Fees Cost to a Contract

Below are a couple of options to ensure the cost of parking fees or tolls are added as a cost on the contract, but not invoiced to the customer.

1. Review this EUG post on parking fees, which also discusses a possible option to use a non-inventory dummy item on a service call for fees. The cost would be associated to the contract, but not show up as billable to the customer. https://eug.digitalgateway.com/blogpost/205179/280924/Vehicle-expenses?hhSearchTerms=%22parking%22&terms=

2. This option requires an accounts payable invoice (vendor would be the technician), and link the customer/contract.

This screen shot shows where it is linked. Invoice Type would be vendor invoice, you would add a line item and edit the line item to link to customer/contract. This cost would then be included as a cost on the contract just like, labor is recorded, toner is recorded etc…