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Maintain
Your Repair Prices
To maintain your Repair Prices, click on the "Maintain Repair Prices" from the "Maintenance" menu (Quick Key Press CTRL+R)
To change your repair code descriptions, or price simply point with the mouse and click the Description, Type, Max Value or Price that you want to change and type in the new value. You should enter the prices Ex VAT or GST if in Australia / New Zealand.
Click on the column headers to sort the list in descending alphabetical or numerical order, click the column header again to sort in ascending order.
If you click on
Cancel
any changes you have made will be ignored, so make sure you click 
Ok
to save your changes.
Code
The single character code you must enter on the PAT to say which repair has been done. See Test Prices and Repair Codes for which line to enter this information on the PAT when you are out in the field.
Note: You cannot add more codes, only amend code A to Z and 1 to 9 in the Repair Prices screen. Codes 2 to 9 are labelled user defined, however you can edit their descrptions.
Description
The description of the repair carried out. This text will be itemised on your invoice so check your spelling carefully.
Type
The type column allows you to enter either AMPS, MINUTES or METRES (or you can select None for No Type). This describes the repair type.
Most repairs do not have a quantity of anything with them EG: Rewire Plug Top.
However some Repairs such as Supply 2.5mm cable need a further figure to be added into the PAT to say how many metres of cable you have supplied.
Max Value
The max value is the maximum allowed value given with a repair. For example if you are supplying fuses, it is unlikely that you would fit a fuse greater than 13 Amps, so, in the Max column for Replace Fuses, the Max value would be 13. When you download the data from the PAT, SimplyPats will check you have entered a value between 1 and 13 Amps. The Maximum value for Metres and Minutes is 99.
Price
The price you want to charge on your invoice for this repair service.
NOTE 1 - In the case of repairs with metres, this price is PER METRE.
NOTE 2 - In the case of labour charges, the price should be PER HOUR, even though you will enter the number of minutes labour into the pat when you do a repair on an appliance.
Creating a New
Repair Price Scheme
You can create
different sets (Price Schemes) of repair prices for charging clients at different
rates. For example you may want to create a discounted price list for some clients.
If you click on the 
New
button you will be prompted for the name of the new price scheme:
Type in the name
of the new price scheme and press OK.
You then have a new set of prices which you can edit. The set of prices is a
copy of the Default Price Scheme.
You can select which Price Scheme you want to edit by selecting it from the combo box at the top of the screen.
SimplyPats will remember the last Repair Price scheme you have edited and will automatically show this scheme when you go back into maintain test prices.
When you create an invoice for a customer you will be able to select which price scheme you want to apply to the invoice. See Also Creating An Invoice
Ok
Closes the maintain repair prices screen and save the changes you have made to the current scheme.
Cancel
Closes the maintain repair prices screen and cancels any changes you have made to the current scheme.
New
Prompts you for the name of a new Repairs price scheme. See Also Create New Price Scheme This copies the default price scheme and gives it the new name you supplied. You can then edit the prices and descriptions of each Repair Price.
Delete
Deletes the currently selected Repairs price scheme. You cannot delete the Default Repair Price Scheme.
Find
Find allows you to find a specific Repair or Repair Code to edit or delete. See Also Find In Grid
Print
Prints out all Repair prices. You will be given the opporunity to preview the results first. See Also Print Preview
The Repair Prices list is printed in the order it is sorted on screen, so click on the column headers to sort the list to the desired setting prior to printing.
Technical Note!
The Repair price scheme files are stored in a plain text file in the folder c:\Program Files\SimplyPats 6\Price Schemes. They have the extension .rps You can edit this file with a word processor if you desire. Make sure you dont add quotes " or any other non alphabetic charcters or you may find you have problems when editing that repairs price scheme again.
See also: Maintain Test Prices
(This Topic Last updated 10/02/2012)
