Estimate Cost Allocation

You can set up and run a cost allocation job in the Estimate Cost Allocation view. This job calculates values by allocations for all saved items, prior to them being calculated when they are added to an invoice. These values can be used in reporting. For more information about configuring billing types for cost allocation, see Cost Allocation for Billing.
Note: You can also set this job to run automatically. For more information about this automation, see Configure Daily Cost Allocation Task.
  1. Navigate to Billing page in the MSP view.
  2. Click the Billing tab.
  3. Click the Cost Allocation button.
  4. Use the 'Search Billing' input parameters to configure a search.
    Note: Not entering parameters returns all billing items.
  5. Click .
  6. From the search results, select the check boxes for the billing items to estimate.
  7. Click .
    An configuration page appears for you to configure your job.

  8. In the Email Address field, enter the notification recipient email address.
    Note: You can send the estimation notification to multiple recipients by entering multiple email addresses separated by commas.
  9. Click .