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Fees/Payments

  • Collecting the Plan Review Fee

    Often, a jurisdiction takes in a plan review fee prior to reviewing plans, collecting the fee at the time the plans are submitted to their department. To charge a customer for only the Plan Review fee...

  • Fund Transfer

    Fund Transfers occur when all or part of a payment needs to be applied to a different record than the one it had been previously recorded to. For example, a contractor pulls one permit for two service...

  • Monthly Balancing

    First, run the Unapplied Transactions Report in Financial Reports v3 in the Reports Page. This will allow you to view permits that have unapplied fees. If they are unapplied due to an error, they can ...

  • CET Fees and Valuation Change when Fees Already Invoiced/Paid

    The steps for dealing with CET fees upon square footage change when the fees have already been invoiced/paid are as follows: Change the square footage in the Valuation Calculator in the Navigation Pan...

  • Sample Reports with Instructions

    Please see attachments for sample reports with information on how to run them, as well as what they include....

  • Nightly Credit Card Balancing

    If your agency uses Converge: Run the Credit Card Detail report from Financial Reports v3. Check this report against the Converge daily batch to ensure that no payments were processed twice or that a ...

  • Payment Processing Cases and Types

    Please see the attached document for a description and explanation of how to process special exceptional payment types in Accela. These are ways to use the existing payment functionality in Accela to ...

  • How to Create a Fee Estimate

    The first few steps in creating a fee estimate are the same as if you were creating a new permit record. Begin by clicking the ‘New’ button in the Launchpad or Record page. Select the record type you ...

  • Adding New Fees to a Permit That Has Already Been Paid

    There are times when you will need to add a new fee item to a record that has already been paid. For example, a contractor is doing a remodel and forgot to add a garbage disposal to the permit. To add...

  • Adjusting Fees on a Permit That Has Already Been Paid

    If a permit has been created and you need to add a new permit item, use the process for adding fees. If, however, a customer is adjusting the items on their permit, such as when there are two dishwash...