Add a multiple-element arrangement to a sales transaction—Order Entry

If your company provides multiple products and/or services to customers as part of a single arrangement, you will group the applicable items into bundles on a sales transaction. The system will use the items' fair value prices from the selected fair value price list and other criteria to allocate the sales transaction price for revenue recognition.

If Automatically include all transaction items in MEA bundle is selected in the Configure Revenue Management page, then all line items in all sales transactions are bundled automatically and participate in the transaction's MEA allocation. In this scenario, you do not need to complete this procedure as there won't be a Bundle column in the line item entries section.

Although your company may use more than one fair value price list, a sales transaction will only reference one fair value price list. When you create a sales order or OE sales invoice, the default fair value price list appears in the Fair value price list field in the transaction header.

You can select a different fair value price list to use for the transaction if Enable override of fair value price lists is set to true in the Configure Revenue Management page.

To add a multiple-element arrangement to a sales transaction:

1. Create a sales transaction, set all of the applicable information, and add all of the desired items. See Create a sales transaction for details.
2. (Optional) Select the desired Fair value price list if different from the default fair value price list.
   See Fair value price lists for information on how to set a default fair value price list.
3. In the Entries section next to each item you want included in the multiple-element arrangement, type 1 in the Bundle field as in the following example.

   EntriesShow defaults

   		Bundle	Item ID*	Quantity	Unit	Price	Extended price
   	1	1	FVP-011 -- Software	1	Each	1,800.00	1,800.00
   	2	1	FVP-012 --Services	1	Each	900.00	900.00
   	3	1	FVP-013--Support	1	Each	1,350.00	1,350.00
   	4	1	FVP-017--Upgrade	1	Each	1,950.00	1,950.00

   The Bundle field only appears in a sales transaction if your company is subscribed to Advanced Revenue Management and Automatically include all transaction items in MEA bundle is not selected in the Configure Revenue Management page.
4. Repeat the previous step for additional arrangements using subsequent numbers for each additional bundle (for example, type 2 in the Bundle field to designate the second arrangement and so on).
5. Select Post.

When you post the transaction, Intacct use the items' fair value prices from the selected fair value price list and other criteria to allocate the sales transaction price for revenue recognition. You can see an item's fair value price and revenue allocation on the MEA Allocation Details page and the MEA Allocations report.

The following illustration shows an example of the MEA Allocation Details page, which you can access from a sales transaction or transaction list.

From the MEA Allocation Details page, you can view the revenue recognition schedule for each item by selecting the link in the MEA allocation (base currency) field.

Learn how MEA allocations are calculated.