The TRUX Software Suite is made up of three main applications: Haul-IT, Weigh-IT and Maintain-IT. Each application provides unique functionality and they can be used individually or as an integrated suite. The integration of the three applications allows you to increase efficiency and decrease operating costs.
TRUX Haul-IT is the complete Windows-based operational and financial management solution for waste haulers. Haul-IT provides comprehensive routing, scheduling, billing, collection and sales management tools that deliver the indispensable information that is so critical in today's competitive business environment.
TRUX Weigh-IT is the complete Windows-based scale ticket creation and billing solution for landfill and transfer station managers. Weigh-IT provides comprehensive ticketing, materials management, billing, collection and reporting tools that allow you to easily manage your facilities in today's hectic landfill envrionments.
Vehicles are one of your company's most valuable assets. Maintain-IT helps you to maintain and accurately track your vehicle assets by providing you with preventive maintenance schedules, mileage tracking, cost analysis, and part tracking tools for your fleet.
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Author: Paul Sulentic, Ree San
Editor: Rob Bloomfield
Do you find yourself manually changing hundreds, or thousands, of accounts when you decide to apply a price increase to your customers? If this is you, then we want you to be aware that there is an easier way to do a Price Increase within the TRUX program. TRUX provides the ability to define parameters used to determine which customers and services are to receive an increase as well as the amount of the increase. Each set of these parameters is called a Price Increase Model. We want you to spend more time analyzing the Price Increase Models you create and their effects on your Monthly Revenue than actually making those changes.
With a click of a button, change the price you charge to a select subset of your customers based on the criteria in your model.
Let us briefly examine the different functions within this Module.
To get started, click on the 'Create New Model button'. You will notice a number of different sections within the model that you can use to specify which customers will get an increase in price. There are two increase types within the model. The more popular one being an increase on a certain activity rates whether it is a rate per service or a recurring period charge. The second increase type is a change to rates charged for material disposal. In either case, the price increase can be applied as a flat rate, a flat increase or a percent increase. For routed services you can also apply an increase by the yard.
For more information on what the differences are, contact our support staff via email or call them at 1-877-216-8789.
The great thing about the Price Increase Model is that it is easy for you to filter who will be affected by the price increase. Use the various field selections provided on the different tabs to define which customers, sites or services will get the Price Increase. You can filter your customers by service type, container size, contract date, and many other criteria. In total there are about twenty different parameters that you can select or combine to determine which customers will get affected by the price increase. The program displays a summary of the parameters you’ve selected in the space to the right of the Selection Grid for easy review.
The Estimate Revenue button allows you to see the estimated effect on your monthly revenue if the prices were changed according to your parameters.
You can "test" your model to see which customers will be affected and by how much before actually applying the changes to your customer data. The Test Model button will run a quick search through your database to see which customers meet the parameters you’ve selected and then produce a 'Pending Increase' list for you to preview and edit. You can change the customer’s rates on this screen and save it before you apply the increase. The list will present the customer, site and service number with the activity or material affected and columns for the current rate, new rate, increase as a dollar value and percentage. You can go through your list and manually make changes to the new rate and flat increase column. This allows you to increase or decrease the value of the change for selected customers.
Even if you determine the new rates were incorrect after being applied, you have the ability to reverse it with another click of a button. The 'Reverse Price Increase' program allows you to reverse all the rate changes that were applied with a selected model. NOTE: This must be done before the rates are used for billing.
When the 'Pending Increase' list has been has been populated the 'Print Notification Letters' can be used to create letters to your customers making them aware in advance of the upcoming price increase to their service(s). You can customize these letters to meet your needs.
Some customers that meet all your parameters may not appear on this list because of other special circumstances. At the service level for each customer is a date field called the ‘Guranteed To’ field. If the customer is setup with a price that has been guaranteed beyond the price increase date they will not be included in the list.
The Exceptions list displays the customer services which would not receive a price change when the model is applied to the database because there is an existing price for the service with the same Effective Date as the prices being generated by the model.