Accounting Management Plug-in is an easy solution that allows organizations to effectively track document output, manage associated output costs and recover lost revenue from abusive printing. Designed for simple installation and ease of use, Accounting Management Plug-in accounts for all document activity on the network.
In addition, Accounting Management Plug-in provides an effective and economic solution for customers in the legal, consulting, and engineering fields. By using Accounting Management Plug-in's 3-tiered billing code functionality, customers in these industries can easily account for document production and charge their clients for these services.
The Accounting Management Plug-in is a modular upgrade to the imageWARE Enterprise Management Console device management framework. With this one application, not only can IT administrators understand document output costs, they can also realize their return on investments.
Using Accounting Management Plug-in, you can:
- Track document output costs
- Offer charge-back capability with an accurate collection of billing data on a per-project basis for all your copies, prints, faxes, and scans
- Enforce document-level print restriction, discouraging the use of higher-cost machines and increasing overall security
- Quickly generate ROI reports
- Provide simple and efficient billing code management
- Chart the optimal deployment of office equipment
Track copy/print/scan/fax usage by devices/users/departments:
With native integration with Canon devices, all output is tracked without the need of any additional hardware or software. For 3rd party devices, tracking print jobs is easy using the Accounting Management client module (bundled with plug-in software).
Analyze department/device workload:
Accounting Management Plug-in provides detailed analytical reporting on how and what features of devices are being utilized by a certain user or department.
Analyze device usage costs:
Accurate cost per page can be calculated based on pre-determined printing cost.
Restrict output (print and copy jobs):
Accounting Management Plug-in makes it easy to restrict copy or print jobs if necessary.
Distinguish between color and black-and-white print/copy jobs:
Due to the native integration with Canon devices, Accounting Management Plug-in can easily differentiate between Color and B/W output.
Charge back function for per project billing (billing Codes):
Accounting Management Plug-in is bundled with a MEAP application that allows a user to input billing codes or project codes for client charge back. Using the client module, user can also input billing codes or project codes from a PC when printing. Billing codes are available in a 3 tiered hierarchy.