Freight Demurrage Commission Invoices

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

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

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

By default:

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

If negative line items are included:

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

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

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

A freight demurrage 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 demurrage commission invoice.