Pcounter Popup: Cost-recovery - print job costing, charge-back, client billing and print confirmation
Pcounter provides a "Popup" feature to allow all print jobs to be allocated a "charge-code" or "client-code", or to provide a means of confirmation that the print job is required.

One or two-level charge-codes can be set up - when a user prints, before the job is released to the printer, they can be forced to enter a charge code which is logged against the job and reported on at a later stage. This code is user defined and could be an internal department code for budgetary control or cross-charging. Alternatively, in the commercial market, particularly where high value / high volume output is generated on behalf of clients (e.g. Architects, Surveyors, Engineers, Solicitors, Accountants) the code could be a client reference or project code for the cost to be assigned to, and later recovered.

Pcounter's Popup appearance and functionality is customisable - the only software that is required to be installed on the workstation is a single EXE file which can be launched from the Startup group or a login script. The attributes of the popup only need to be configured once at the server, ensuring that the popup's behavior is consistent across all workstations.

Users can choose codes from the list, enter information in the form, or you can force them to choose from the list.

Client codes can also be selectively displayed to users based on their login name and/or network group membership, which enables different lists to be shown to different users and groups.

The user's last 20 selections are remembered and can be easily accessed via a drop-down list.

The client code database is manged via the Pcounter Administrator program - records can be imported or entered manually.

Matter number list
This is the same as the client code list except that client code lists are 2-dimensional.  Each client code may contain a number of subcodes (matter numbers).