Freight Commission Invoices

Freight commission invoices are raised when an address commission percentage has been specified in a freight contract. The address commission is the percentage of the freight cost that the freight organisation attributes to the internal companies associated with the freight contract.

A freight commission invoice is created automatically when the freight invoice is created or recalculated. Only one freight commission invoice can be created for the same freight invoice.

By default, commission is calculated only on positive line items in the freight invoice. However, the freight contract can be configured to include negative line items in commission calculations.

By default:

• If the freight invoice line item value is positive, the freight commission is negative.
• No freight commission is calculated for negative freight invoice line items.
• If the freight invoice only has negative line items, no freight commission invoice is created.

If negative line items are included:

• If the freight invoice line item value is positive, the freight commission is negative.
• If the freight invoice line item value is negative, the freight commission is positive.

If the freight organisation matches the customer of the despatch order, no freight commission invoice is created.

If the address commission is specified after the creation of the freight invoice, the freight commission invoice can be created by:

• Creating the freight commission invoice manually. See Create a Freight Commission Invoice.
• Recalculating the freight invoice.

A freight commission invoice generates account journals based on the rules for the chart of accounts, like any other invoice, with the document type in the chart of accounts set to freight commission invoice.