What is the Car Repair Billing application?
The Car Repair Billing application provides repair shops and short line and regional railroads with the ability to report repairs. It contains several components, including the Billing Repair Card interface, the Car Repair Billing Data Exchange, and the Car Repair Billing Price Master.
What is the Billing Repair Card (BRC) interface?
Billing Repair Card (BRC) is a component of the Car Repair Billing application that provides an interface for repair shops and short line and regional railroads to report repairs. BRC enables automatic pricing against the Car Repair Billing Price Master and it sends the repair data directly into Railinc’s Car Repair Billing Data Exchange (CRBDX). Repair shops and short lines are able to accurately price their repairs and create invoices. Car owners benefit from the Car Repair Billing Price Master, more accurate price matrices, and data exchanges that help eliminate paper invoices.
What benefits does BRC provide?
BRC ensures that all required fields are populated before the BRC is submitted for pricing and performs basic validation on fields. BRC provides:
• Convenience: BRC users have a single point of access where they can report and invoice railroads or car owners for repairs on equipment
• Productivity: The invoice is created by the billing/invoicing party and includes the job codes related to the repairs completed. The billing party will note the billed party on the invoice. The billed party is the company responsible for paying the billing party for the repairs.
• Improved decisions: : BRC provides an interface to the pricing programs. BRC process starts with creating a Billing Repair Card and submitting it to be priced and saved. A BRC can either be priced successfully or returned with errors. All errors must be corrected and resubmitted (priced and saved) before a BRC can be invoiced or sent for data exchange. Once invoiced these BRCs are then sent to Railinc Car Repair Billing Data Exchange (CRBDX) is the centralized process for receipt and transmission of invoices (AAR and non-AAR repairs) to register billed partied.
Who uses BRC and what can they do?
Railroads, equipment owners, third-party agents, and repair shops are the primary users of BRC.
BRC users can create an invoice to the Billed Party for repairs (Billing/Invoicing Party), Save a BRC, return to a pending BRC, and add lines as a needed prior to it being submitted for pricing, make corrections or changes to the BRC, delete a BRC in Entered, Priced, or Error status.
How much historical information can the BRC search return?
The BRC search feature allows a user to search for data back to 2010.
Why must I have contact information in FindUs.Rail?
FindUs.Rail is the official centralized industry database of contact information for activity pertaining to AAR Interchange Rule 114. Car Repair Billing (CRB) participants must submit to FindUs.Rail the contact information for the Billed Party (BP), Billing/Invoicing Party (IP), Inquiries (IQ), Remit To (RT) and Billing/Invoicing Party Exception Handling (EX). Additionally, contact information must be verified in FindUs.Rail every 90 days. Submitted invoices will be rejected if this information is not in FindUs.Rail or is not verified.
What roles do I need to request to create BRC’s using the Car Repair Billing application?
You must request the CRB Billing Repair Card User role to view and submit data for your company.