Adding Levy's to Chemicals

[dropdeaddart]

(Using R&R)

Hi guys, how's every one doing lately? Good I hope!

I was hoping that someone could give me some insight as too how they have gone about adding chemical surcharge levy's to their chemicals (I.E. oils, cleaners, coolants, etc.) I'm looking for a sure fire way to accomplish this task, I was personally thinking of making the surcharge the core on the part, so if it was brake clean, there would be a core of $0.30. Also does anyone know how to make an immediate comment like that would say "CORE=ECO FEE", or something along those lines. I was just wondering if anyone would know what the pros and cons of this would be? Thanks everyone!

[possum]

That's a Canada thing, eh?
How is the fee determined? Is it a flat percentage of cost?
I would charge it to shop supplies and let them re-coup it in misc. fees on the RO's (If that's legal there).

[dropdeaddart]

I don't know specifically if it is a Canadian thing or not, I haven't looked into the details regarding that.
So far, from what I have read. The fee is flat to specifically coolant, gas, diesel oil filters, and finally bottled oil.
When I worked at my old dealership, they had the fees on work orders along side the parts and when they were audited, nothing was seen as wrong. I personally, am just trying to figure out an easy way of billing it too the parts so that we do not forget to type it in to the line in the times we are busy and forget......EH?!

[greenthumb-38]

For me (us), all the fees are handled through the dept that generates the waste. So the service dept recoups the money thru offsetting fees charged on the labor op related to the procedure, oil changes, fluid exchanges, etc... the entry in the labor op goes to offset the fees, all done automatically thru the DMS. our risk management company oversees the amount we are charging so that we don't overcharge the customer and open ourselves to penalties and fines. this can get very complicated....

the cons on the "core charge" entry... it might get taxed and you could get in trouble for that. the fees could/would get charged to your parts acct creating a shortage ?? and now you are tracking an expense or fee that another department is generating...

~ gt