Partially Billed Contracts
If you need to migrate contracts from an external system into Billing Central and some of the contracts are already partially billed, you can record:
- The amount already billed in the external system by entering it in the Amount Billed Externally field on contract line items.
- The date up to which the contract has been billed in the external system by entering it in the Billed Externally To field on contract line items. Billing schedules are not created for periods with a start date on or before this date.
To use these fields an administrator must add them to your contract line item page layout, or to the contract line item's Enhanced Contract Additional Fields field set if you are using the BC Contract Line Items Lightning component.
You can only edit these fields while a contract's status is "Draft". Once a contract has been activated, these fields are no longer editable.
Custom Triggers
When you save a draft contract, the Total Billed field on a contract line item is updated to include the Amount Billed Externally. If you have a custom trigger to update Total Billed or Amount Billed Externally on a draft contract, the trigger must update both fields by the same amount.