Booking & payments
Change the deposit or fuel amount on an order
Type your own deposit or fuel surcharge on one order — who may, and how to go back to your rules.
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Your rules set the deposit and the fuel surcharge on every order. On one order you can use your own figure instead — if you have the permission.
Change the deposit
- In the order's Quote Details, type the amount in the Deposit box.
- Press SAVE.
Hover over the box: The office's own figure. Clear it to go back to the deposit rules. To go back, clear the box and save.
On a multi-day move, pick the day first — the box is read-only on ALL.
You need the permission to edit the deposit amount. Without it the Deposit box is greyed out and you can't type in it — hover over it: You don't have permission to edit the deposit. This is the same on every day of a multi-day move and on a phone.
Change the fuel surcharge
- Press the Fuel Surcharge row in Quote Details.
- Choose your company's rule, a percent, or a flat amount.
- Press Save in the pop-up, then SAVE on the order.
A typed percent is taken of the same base as Settings › Pricing & calculator › Fuel surcharge › Fuel surcharge is a percent of: the moving charges, or labor and travel only. The pop-up shows that base and its amount next to the box. A flat amount is charged as typed.
On a long-distance order, the fuel you type wins over the long-distance fuel setting, on the quote and on the bill of lading.
You need the permission to edit the fuel surcharge amount. Without it the row says You don't have a permission to edit this field. See Fuel surcharge.
When you can't change them
Once the day's job has started or is completed, the sales quote is locked — see Why some fields are locked.
Related guides
- Booking & paymentsHow the deposit amount is setThe rules that work out each order's deposit — per kind of move, per truck, per day, and the raise closer to the move.
- Estimates & pricingFuel surchargeHow MoveBoard adds fuel to a quote — by distance range, as a percent, or per mile — and how to change it on one order.
- OrdersQuote Details cardEvery line of the price — deposit, charges, fees, discount, taxes, total, payments and balance — and how to change each one.
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