Penalty tables

A penalty table defines rules for applying a certain type of penalty as of a specified date. The type of penalty is defined by the penalty table's parent penalty code. Each penalty table remains in effect until the effective date of the next penalty table defined for the same code. The actual rules for applying the penalty are defined in one or more penalty details.

Penalty charges can range from a percentage of the unpaid amount to a flat fee, and they can include any mixture of initial and recurring charges according to your agency's business rules.

A penalty code consists of penalty tables, which contain penalty details. Penalty tables categorize all the details for a penalty code by date. A detail represents a specific piece of data that must be present for Infor Public Sector to apply the charges specified in that detail. For example, you may want to create a late fee for delinquent accounts with an area of NORTHWEST.

After you’ve created a penalty code and added one or more details to it, you can associate it with a line item or bill type. To continue the above example, you may create a penalty code called FEEWATER with a NORTHWEST area detail that calls for a 5 percent penalty charge for any bill that has been delinquent for ten days. You associate this code with the WATER bill type. Then, when you apply penalties for any water bills, Infor Public Sector finds any accounts that have delinquent water bill charges, picks out the accounts in the NORTHWEST area, and applies penalties following the rules set forth in the NORTHWEST penalty detail.

You can further refine the criteria by creating another detail under the existing detail. For example, if you wanted to charge different penalties for accounts in the NORTHWEST area depending on whether the account type is commercial (COM) or residential (RES), you could create two more details under NORTHWEST: RES and COM.