Declared Liability

Changes in the way Move Administer handles declared liability are now complete and with our testers for their comments. When we originally added declared liability to Move Administer we simply removed all insurance fields, however since talking with our users we have made the following changes:

Liability can now be calculated and charged as a percentage of the removal charge. Yep, you did read right, charged!

For example, Move Administer allows you to produce a quotation with a Nett moving figure of £500.00. Let’s say that your rate of liability is 10%, therefore your Liability would be calculated as £50.00. VAT is then calculated on the Nett + Liability, with the Total being the Nett + Liability + VAT.

When the Quotation is printed the customer see’s the basic removal charge at £550.00 + VAT. When the Quotation is accepted the invoice generated will have a Nett figure of £550.00. There is no mention of the £50.00 Liability to the customer.

You also have a checkbox which if ticked will print that ‘extended liability’ has been included, and the extended liability can have it’s own valuation cover that is different to the standard cover on a per product basis (Inland, European, Commercial, etc).

This new way of dealing with Liability allows you, the remover, to claw back some of that lost insurance revenue. And although on the example above £550.00 would be posted to the sales code assigned to the Quotation, Move Administer will have reports to show the breakdown of accepted Quotations, so you can then see just how much Liability revenue was charged in any period, allowing you to adjust your sales turnover figures accordingly.

The ‘new’ liability rate can also be charged for additional services offered, and when it comes to Storage you can charge the Liability as a percentage of the weekly rate or a percentage of the declared valuation.

Fingers crossed that our ‘Declared Liability’ testers find this a great addition to Move Administer.