Introduction to Advisor View Billing

Learn the basics and workflow for Advisor View billing.

Billing Definitions

A billing definition defines how you want to calculate fees in Advisor View. In the billing definition, you define items such as the billing method (arrears or in advance), the billing cycle, prorations, rate tiers, adjustments, minimum fees, and service tax amounts.

Billing Groups

A billing group is a collection of accounts that all have the same billing settings. In the billing group, you specify details such as the accounts in the group, billing periods, payment distribution, adjustments, and statement display options.

Generating Billing History

Generating billing history for your billing groups calculates the fees that Advisor View will include on the invoice. Generating billing history separate from generating the billing statement gives the flexibility to re-run billing statements and re-printing an exact copy of a historical billing statement that was sent to the client.

Billing Statements

If you use billing statements to bill your clients, you enter the statement charges in the billing definition. Advisor View keeps a running record of the charges and shows the client's balance. When it's time to mail the statements, all you have to do is print them.

Billing Reconciliation

With billing reconciliation, you can you manually and automatically reconcile payments for your services, which helps you account for every invoice and payment in your firm.

Billing History Report

The Billing History report shows the time periods, adjustments, paid amounts, and billing amounts for each portfolio. On this page you can delete billing history, start an auto-reconciliation and more.

Quarterly Billing Process

This Help topic describes how to complete the quarter-end billing process in Advisor View.

Common Billing Questions

Learn the answers to the most commonly asked questions about Advisor View billing.

Export Management Fees

Find out how to export your management fees.

Custodian Export of Billing Information

Find out how to perform a custodian export of your billing information.

Add Prior Outstanding Balance to Billing Statements

Learn how to create, upload, and view outstanding balance.

Prorate New Accounts

Learn how to create, upload, and view outstanding balance.

Calculate a Refund on an Advance Bill

Learn how to create a refund for clients billed in advance.

Exclude Cash or Other Securities from Billing

Learn how to exclude a security from billing invoices.

Use Default Templates to Generate Billing Invoices for Certain Groups

Learn how to generate PDF invoices for specific accounts or groups using default templates.

Shorten Billing Invoices with Merge Fields

Learn how use a merge field to shorten invoices for billing groups that have multiple billing definitions.