Office General Settings
When you first create your tenant you will need to create a single office, this office can then be updated at anytime within the General Settings or Offices section.
Offices are essentially your Legal Entities, if you expect to use the Delivery Module of Proteus which involves Finance / Invoicing you will need create a separate office for each legal entity.
There is a field called Office Key that is only viewed and configurable in the Offices section. The Office Key is a unique ID that can be applied to your Database numbering (References) for different records.
If you have multiple offices created, you can select the drop down in the top left corner and choose the office to open and be able to make changes to.
Basic Information
Within Basic Information there are 2 sections called Essential Information and Region Setting. Most of the information is required and important for the foundation of both Offices.
Within Basic Information you will need to populate the address of the office as well as the Office name, your website and a company logo.
The Region Settings include the Date and Time formats but more crucially you will need to select the Currency and Tax rate. The currency cannot be changed after it is in use, essentially as soon as a contract is created the currency is locked.
There is a feature flag available called Multi-Currency that will allow you to change the currency of an office on the contract. This will mean the proposal and project (including Invoicing) will use the selected contract currency instead of the locked office currency. The Currency Exchange is configured manually in the admin console.
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The Tax rate is the default VAT % for the office. This will be overwritten on the contract and can also be changed on the invoice itself.
Ensure to select once all the changes have been made
Invoice Settings
Invoice settings is where the bank details for the office need to be populated, which will automatically be applied on any invoice from the selected Office.
Within General Settings select Invoice Settings from the top tab.
There are 5 sections within Invoice settings; Contact Information, Reference Numbers, Bank Information, Payment Terms (Days) and Notes.
Payment Terms and Notes can both added when an invoice is created however they can be setup with pre-populated text within the Invoice settings.
Ensure to select once the invoice settings have been set.
Creating a New Office
Offices is where you can create new offices, clone existing ones, deactivate an existing office and update an existing office details, specifically the office key.
To create a new Office select the Offices section
When creating a new office you can either or
an existing one.
A Cloned office will copy all unique details of the office that has been cloned; including General, Organisation and Timesheet & Expense.
When you clone an office you will need to make sure to add the new Office name and Key but also select the office you want to clone. Cloning is irreversible and you will only be able deactivate the office afterwards.
There are a few actions that can be taken for an office via the 3 dots .
Edit | This will allow you to make changes to the office that has been selected. This is the only place that the office key can be added. |
Clone | This will immediately clone the selected office without going through the clone form. |
Delete | This is permanently delete the selected office however you will need to select another office to migrate the data. A migrated office will move all associated records and databases to the selected office. Highly recommend Not to delete an office and only deactivate. |
Deactivate | This will move the office into deactivated and no new records can be created associated with this office. |