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I don't understand the use of MASTER CLIENT; please advise. Thanks.

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    That's probably too big a topic to try to tackle in a bulletin board post, but ...

    As a general rule:  master clients are clients for whom you need to track multiple matters as separate accounts.  They each get their own invoice number and have a separate balance.  Payments are posted to each matter as well.  The idea is you send a separate bill for each matter and get paid separately as well.  To handle this, you can set up a Master client which is sort of a 'Parent,' and then several what are called Client.Project accounts as 'Child' accounts of the Master. That you then enter slips for and bill against.

    If you look in the Help file for information on Client.Project you should find more details about it.

    Hope this helps.  

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  • 0 in reply to Nancy Duhon

    Wow, Nancy, thanks very much. I understand.

  • 0 in reply to Nancy Duhon
    Nancy, I have read that the order of creating Master Clients is to create the master first. Then the children. What if we have had a client for a while, have billed on a certain matter, are still working on it, and then need to add another matter for that client with completely different billing arrangements in terms of time and expenses. Can you make an existing client the master? Or is it better to create a Master and then assign the current project and new ones to that master?
    Thanks, Kristin
  • 0 in reply to KKT35
    You can make a new client and make a master if that is appropriate. You just have to remember where the history is
  • 0 in reply to Caren2
    Oh, Hi Caren! It is Kristin from L&R. I thought you were out today or I would have asked you directly! Can you explain what you mean by "remember where the history is"?? :)
  • 0 in reply to KKT35
    What I mean by history is that history will be on the client. Once you setup master there may be some information that is now on master where previously was on sub matter