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Project Settings – Travel Expense Management

Store project-specific mileage rates, arrival allowances and, if applicable, a deviating allowance calculation procedure.

Written by Christian Schad

On the project detail page, the Travel Expense Management module adds the tab Billing settings > Travel settings. Here you store project-specific values for mileage, arrival allowance, and daily allowances that deviate from the tenant-wide default.

Note: Project-specific travel settings are only available in ZEP Compact and ZEP Professional.

Mileage

In the Mileage section, you control whether and how mileage is passed on to the customer.

  • Do not bill: mileage is not passed on to the customer in this project

  • Bill only for billable working hours: mileage appears on the invoice only if the corresponding work time is marked as billable

  • Bill for all working hours: mileage is passed on regardless of billability

With the checkbox Special mileage rate in this project, you set a rate that deviates from the standard vehicle, e.g., when a higher or lower rate has been agreed with the customer for a project. In the input field below, you enter the amount per kilometer in the project currency.

Project travel settings excerpt Mileage with options Do not bill, only for billable working times and for all working times plus activated special mileage allowance 0.50 EUR

Arrival allowance

Some projects bill a flat arrival allowance instead of a detailed travel expense recording. Via the radio box, you set the variant:

  • None: no arrival allowance is calculated (default)

  • Per employee and day: the allowance is calculated once per travel day

  • Per employee and trip: the allowance is calculated once per consecutive trip, regardless of the number of travel days

If a variant is active, two additional fields appear:

  • Calculation basis: only for billable working hours or for all working hours

  • Arrival allowance: the amount in project currency

With the variant Per employee and day, a minimum travel time per day can additionally be set in the field From this number of hours per day. At 0, the allowance applies without restriction; at 5, for example, only when an employee was traveling for more than 5 hours of the day.

Project travel settings edit dialog with Mileage, Arrival allowance None per employee day or trip and Subsistence allowance Do not bill with daily lump sums

Daily allowances

The Daily allowances section is structurally analogous to the mileage section:

  • Billing mode: do not bill, only for billable working hours, for all working hours

  • Special daily flat rates and deductions: checkbox to override the standard rates from master data on a project-specific basis

When the checkbox is active and the tenant-wide daily allowance procedure is set to Germany, the following input fields for the deviating daily flat rates appear:

  • More than 8 hrs.: daily flat rate for trips with more than 8 hours of absence

  • At least 14 hrs.: daily flat rate from 14 hours (relevant only for projects started before 2014)

  • At least 24 hrs.: daily flat rate for full travel days over 24 hours

  • Percentage deduction for breakfast: percentage deduction when breakfast is provided

  • Percentage deduction per lunch or dinner: percentage deduction per main meal provided

With the Austrian procedure active, only the 24-hour daily flat rate and the two meal deductions appear.

Project travel settings excerpt Subsistence allowance with options Do not bill, only for billable times, for all times plus daily lump sums for more than 8 hours and 24 hours
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