# Time Billing

## Work Contracts

Work contracts are used to set several financial, management accounting & time sheet valuation criteria for user's employment / work relationship with the Organization.

[![Work-Contracts.png](https://help.atollon.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-03/scaled-1680-/Work-Contracts.png)](https://help.atollon.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-03/Work-Contracts.png)

Each worker (user) should have **VALID** work contract in case you want **Time Sheet Valuation** & **Capacity Planning** to work properly.

## Time Sheet Valuation

It is necessary to set-up Work Contract in case you want to add rates to User's Time Sheet records automatically. Please note that **Work Price List** set-up on **Project** or **Folder** (Client) level for either **wage** (internal rate) or **price** (external rate) has **higher priority** than the Work Contract.

Please do not forget to enter all values, specifically:

<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" id="bkmrk-user-select-the-work"><tbody><tr><td>User</td><td>Select the worker  
(must be system user, even without access to system)</td></tr><tr><td>Contract Type</td><td>Select the role for pricing  
(seniority or formal relationship with the worker)</td></tr><tr><td>Valid from</td><td>When is the contract valid from  
(required criteria)</td></tr><tr><td>Employer</td><td>Select who's the worker's contractor. If the worker is self-employed, just keep the Organization name.</td></tr><tr><td>Wage type</td><td>Select the type of internal costs. In case you want to use this criteria for estimation of labour costs, keep it Hourly rate.</td></tr><tr><td>Wage</td><td>Add the value of (hourly) rate</td></tr><tr><td>Price type</td><td>Set what's the type of rate  
(usually hourly would be used, it does not have direct effect on billing in case the contract with client is set-up differently than time-based billing)</td></tr><tr><td>Price</td><td>Add the value of (hourly) rate</td></tr><tr><td>Tracking Category 1, 2, 3</td><td>Other columns may represent your system settings of Tracking Categories, ie Cost Centre, Organization Unit, etc.

This value is automatically entered to User's Time Sheet record.

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#### Create Work Calendar

This feature is required only once you want to use Resource Management / Capacity Planning application.

[![Work-Contract-calendar.png](https://help.atollon.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-03/scaled-1680-/Work-Contract-calendar.png)](https://help.atollon.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-03/Work-Contract-calendar.png)

Click on user's work contract &amp; press Edit Work Calendar button. In case no previous calendar was created, application will offer you creation of the new work schedule.

[![Work-Contract-calendar2.png](https://help.atollon.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-03/scaled-1680-/Work-Contract-calendar2.png)](https://help.atollon.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-03/Work-Contract-calendar2.png)

You can add more calendars (as many as you need) in case the worker has more difficult work schedule.