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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.

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.

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.

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